Iranian writer-director and two times Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi, will preside over the Jury of the Competition Program – Feature Film of 24th Sarajevo Film Festival which will be held from August 10 to 17, 2018.
Sarajevo Film Festival’s audience will also have a chance to see Farhadi’s latest film Everybody Knows which premiered in the Competition program of the Cannes Film Festival and opened this year’s Festival. The film starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem will be screened in the Open Air program of the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival.
Asghar Farhadi was born in 1972. In 2002, he wrote and directed his first feature film, Dancing In The Dust, which won the Best Actor award and the Russian Society of Film Critics’ Best Film award at the 25th Moscow International Film Festival, as well as the Best Director and the Best Screenplay awards at the 48th Asian Pacific Film Festival. A year later, Farhadi wrote and directed Beautiful City (2003). Farhadi subsequently directed Fireworks Wednesday (2005), followed by About Elly (2007) which simultaneously premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and Fajr Film Festival in Teheran winning the Silver Bear for Best Director and the Crystal Simorgh for Best Directing respectively.
Farhadi then started to write A Separation, which he shot in 2010. It premiered at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival where it picked up the Golden Bear for best film, as well as two Silver Bears, one each for its ensemble of actresses and actors. After it premiered at Berlinale, the film won more than 70 prizes across the globe, including the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, the Cesar for Best Foreign Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. A Separation was an international success unprecedented by any Iranian film. The film was released in the United States in December 2011, becoming one of the highest grossing foreign language films in the difficult US marketplace. The same year, Farhadi was named on of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.
While A Separation was being screened in different festivals and countries, Farhadi and his family moved to Paris so he could start work on the screenplay of The Past, his first film on a foreign language. The Past was released during the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, won the Best Actress Award (Bérénice Bejo) at the Cannes and was nominated for the Golden Globes and the César.
Farhadi returned to Iran in 2015 to shoot The Salesman, which was screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival where Farhadi won the Best Screenplay award, while the lead actor Shahab Hosseini picked up the Best Actor award. For this film, Farhadi won his second Oscar for Best Film in a Foreign Language.
Several months later, Farhadi started shooting his latest film, Everybody Knows, in Spanish language, for which Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem were reunited on screen. The film opened the 71st Cannes Film Festival and was in competition for the festival’s top prize.Sarajevo Film Festival
The Sarajevo Film Festival is an international film festival with a special focus on the region of South-East Europe (Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo*, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey), shining an international spotlight on films, talent and future projects from the region.
Sarajevo Film Festival started in 1995 and takes place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Asghar Farhadi Named Jury President of the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival Competition Program
Iranian writer-director and two times Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi, will preside over the Jury of the Competition Program – Feature Film of 24th Sarajevo Film Festival which will be held from August 10 to 17, 2018.
Sarajevo Film Festival’s audience will also have a chance to see Farhadi’s latest film Everybody Knows which premiered in the Competition program of the Cannes Film Festival and opened this year’s Festival. The film starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem will be screened in the Open Air program of the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival.
Asghar Farhadi was born in 1972. In 2002, he wrote and directed his first feature film, Dancing In The Dust, which won the Best Actor award and the Russian Society of Film Critics’ Best Film award at the 25th Moscow International Film Festival, as well as the Best Director and the Best Screenplay awards at the 48th Asian Pacific Film Festival. A year later, Farhadi wrote and directed Beautiful City (2003). Farhadi subsequently directed Fireworks Wednesday (2005), followed by About Elly (2007) which simultaneously premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and Fajr Film Festival in Teheran winning the Silver Bear for Best Director and the Crystal Simorgh for Best Directing respectively.
Farhadi then started to write A Separation, which he shot in 2010. It premiered at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival where it picked up the Golden Bear for best film, as well as two Silver Bears, one each for its ensemble of actresses and actors. After it premiered at Berlinale, the film won more than 70 prizes across the globe, including the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, the Cesar for Best Foreign Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. A Separation was an international success unprecedented by any Iranian film. The film was released in the United States in December 2011, becoming one of the highest grossing foreign language films in the difficult US marketplace. The same year, Farhadi was named on of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.
While A Separation was being screened in different festivals and countries, Farhadi and his family moved to Paris so he could start work on the screenplay of The Past, his first film on a foreign language. The Past was released during the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, won the Best Actress Award (Bérénice Bejo) at the Cannes and was nominated for the Golden Globes and the César.
Farhadi returned to Iran in 2015 to shoot The Salesman, which was screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival where Farhadi won the Best Screenplay award, while the lead actor Shahab Hosseini picked up the Best Actor award. For this film, Farhadi won his second Oscar for Best Film in a Foreign Language.
Several months later, Farhadi started shooting his latest film, Everybody Knows, in Spanish language, for which Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem were reunited on screen. The film opened the 71st Cannes Film Festival and was in competition for the festival’s top prize.
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2017 Sarajevo Film Festival Awards: SCARY MOTHER Wins Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film
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The Georgia film Scary Mother directed by Ani Urushadze, was awarded the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film at the 2017 Sarajevo Film Festival. In the film, Manana, a 50-year-old housewife, struggles with a dilemma – she has to choose between her family life and her passion for writing, which she has repressed for years. She decides to follow her passion and plunges herself into writing, sacrificing everything to it, both mentally and physically.
The award for Best Documentary went to City of the Sun, directed by Rati Oneli. City of the Sun portrays a few of the remaining inhabitants of the mining city of Chiatura, in western Georgia. Up to 50 percent of the world’s manganese, a vital metal across the globe, used to be mined here, but today, it resembles an apocalyptic ghost town. Music teacher Zurab dismantles ramshackle concrete buildings by hand and sells the iron girders to make some money on the side. Archil still works in the mine, but his real passion is the local amateur theatre group. Despite being malnourished, two young female athletes train stoically for the next Olympic Games.
Actor and comedian John Cleese, best known as a member of the famous comedy team Monty Python’s Flying Circus, received the honorary lifetime achievement award. “I accept it not as a film person, but more as a comedian because I think at this time in world history, we’ve never needed comedians more,” Cleese said.
2017 Sarajevo Film Festival Awards
COMPETITION PROGRAM – FEATURE FILM
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FEATURE FILM SCARY MOTHER / SASHISHI DEDA Georgia, Estonia Director: Ana Urushadze Producer: Lasha Khalvashi HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST DIRECTOR EMANUEL PÂRVU MEDA OR THE NOT SO BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS / MEDA SAU PARTEA NU PREA FERICITĂ A LUCRURILOR Romania SPECIAL JURY MENTION DIRECTIONS / POSOKI Bulgaria, Germany, Macedonia Director: Stephan Komandarev HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTRESS Ornela Kapetani, DAYBREAK / DITA ZË FILL HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTOR Şerban Pavlu, MEDA OR THE NOT SO BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS / MEDA SAU PARTEA NU PREA FERICITĂ A LUCRURILORCOMPETITION PROGRAM – SHORT FILM
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST SHORT FILM INTO THE BLUE / U PLAVETNILO Croatia, Slovenia Director: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović Financial Award, in the amount of 2.500 €. SPECIAL JURY MENTION SOA Montenegro Director: Dušan Kasalica SPECIAL JURY MENTION COPA – LOCA Greece Director: Christos MassalasCOMPETITION PROGRAM – STUDENT FILM
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST STUDENT FILM CLEAN / ČISTOĆA Bosnia and Herzegovina Director: Neven Samardžić SPECIAL JURY MENTION LJUBLJANA – MÜNCHEN 15:27 / LJUBLJANA – MUNICH 15:27 Slovenia Director: Katarina MoranoCOMPETITION PROGRAM – DOCUMENTARY FILM
HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM CITY OF THE SUN / MZIS QALAQI Georgia, USA, Qatar, Netherlands Director: Rati Oneli SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR COMPETITION PROGRAM DOCUMENTARY FILM KINDERS Austria Directors: Arash T. Riahi, Arman T. Riahi SPECIAL JURY MENTION HOME / DOM Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina Director: Zdenko Jurilj HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD MR. GAY SYRIA Turkey, France, Germany Director: Ayse Toprak Best film of the Competition Programme – Documentary Film dealing with the subject of human rights.HONORARY HEART OF SARAJEVO
John Cleese, Actor Oliver Stone, DirectorCINELINK AWARDS
CINELINK CO-PRODUCTION MARKET AWARDS EURIMAGES COPRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD HALF-SISTER Director: Damjan Kozole Writers: Damjan Kozole, Urša Menart Producer: Danijel Hočevar Production company: Vertigo Slovenia MACEDONIAN FILM AGENCY CINELINK AWARD HOLY EMY Director: Araceli Lemos Writers: Araceli Lemos, Gulia Caruso Producers: Elina Psykou, Giulia Caruso, Konstantinos Vassilaros Production company: StudioBauhaus Greece ARTE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CINELINK AWARD CAT IN THE WALL Directors: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova Writer: Mina Mileva Producers: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova Production company: Activist38 Bulgaria SPECIAL MENTION THE GREAT TRAM ROBBERY Director: Slobodan Šijan Writers: Slobodan Šijan, Biljana Maksić, Vladimir Mančić Producer: Marko Paljić Production company: Gargantua Films Serbia MDM EAVE SCHOLARSHIP Konstantinos Vassilaros / HOLY EMYWORK IN PROGRESS AWARDS
TRT AWARD HONEYLAND Directors: Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska Producers: Ljubo Stefanov, Atanas Georgiev Production company: Apollo Media, Trice Films Macedonia POST REPUBLIC AWARD THE DAY AFTER I’M GONE Director: Nimrod Eldar Producer: Eitan Mansuri Production company: Spiro Films Ltd Israel RESTART AWARD WHAT COMES AROUND Director: Reem Saleh Producers: Reem Saleh, Konstantina Stavrianou Production company: Mazameer Productions Lebanon / Egypt / QatarCINELINK DRAMA AWARD
FILM CENTER SERBIA CINELINK DRAMA AWARD ALL PANTHERS ARE PINK / SVI PANTERI SU PINK Creators: Titus Kreyenberg, Miroslav Mogorović Writer: Dimitrije Vojnov Director: TBC Producers: Titus Kreyenberg, Miroslav Mogorović Production company: Unafilm, Art & Popcorn Germany, Serbia SPECIAL MENTION GLYCERIN / GLICERIN Creators: Ivan Knežević, Miloš Pušić Writers: Ivan Knežević, Miloš Pušić Director: Miloš Pušić Producers: Ivan Knežević, Miloš Pušić Production company: Altertise Serbia23rd SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL PARTNER’S AWARDS
AWARDS OF ASSOCIATION OF BOSNIAN FILMMAKERS
Ivica Matić Award Redžinald Šimek Ivica Matić Award Tomislav Topić Ivica Matić Award Action Group of the Association of Bosnian Filmmakers for copyrights (Pjer Žalica, Jovan Marjanović, Elma Tataragić and Amar Nović) CINEUROPA NAGRADA SCARY MOTHER / SASHISHI DEDA Director: Ana Urushadze CICAE NAGRADA SON OF SOFIA / O GIOS TIS SOFIAS Director: Elina Psykou THE EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY NETWORK – TALENT GRANT WHEN PIGS COME Director: Biljana Tutorov SARAJEVO SHORT FILM NOMINEE FOR EUROPAN FIOM AWARDS 2017 COPA-LOCA Director: Christos Massalas BEST PACK & PITCH AWARD (TALENTS SARAJEVO PACK & PITCH) SIRIN Senad Šahmanović – invitation for participation in the co-production market CineLink PINKLER Patricia D’Intino The postproduction of sound services in the amount of 4.000 EUR (studio Chelia)BH FILM STUDENT PROGRAMME AWARD
Best B&H Student Film Award TO OUTLIVE A TURTLE / NADŽIVETI KORNJAČU Director: Katarina Živanović Fakultet dramskih i filmskih umjetnosti Bijeljina Special Jury Award CLEAN / ČISTOĆA Director: Neven Samardžić Akademija scenskih umjetnosti Sarajevo Special Mention WINTER SUN / ZIMSKO SUNCE Director: Pilar Palomero Sarajevo Film Academy image via Facebook
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Monty Pyton’s John Cleese to be Honored at Sarajevo Film Festival
John Cleese will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award for his “extraordinary contribution to the art of film” at the 23rd edition of Sarajevo Film Festival.
After the award ceremony, Sarajevo Film Festival’s audience will have the opportunity to see legendary comedy A FISH CALLED WANDA within the Open Air Program.
John Cleese is best known for his involvement in MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS, FAWLTY TOWERS, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL, MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN, and A FISH CALLED WANDA.
In addition to his comedic activities, he was a co-founder with Sir Antony Jay of Video Arts, a management and sales training video company. Over a period of 20 years, Video Arts made over 120 training videos, and it was the largest firm of its kind outside the United States.
John Cleese was also a co-author, with the eminent psychiatrist Dr. Robin Skynner of two books ‘Families And How To Survive Them’, and ’Life And How To Survive It’. These books, which explored psychology, psychiatry, and their application to the wider world, both became best sellers.
Currently he is Provost’s Professor at Cornell University.
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MUSTANG and TOTO AND HIS SISTERS Win Top Awards at 21st Sarajevo Film Festival
MUSTANG directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven is the winner of the Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Feature Film at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival. Mustang stars Güneş Sensoy, Doğba Doğuslu, Tuğba Sunguroğlu, Elit Işcan, Ilayda Akdoğan, Nihal Koldaş, and Ayberk Pekcan.
It’s the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged. The five sisters, driven by the same desire for freedom, fight back against the limits imposed on them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU9JAN8LtIk TOTO AND HIS SISTERS / TOTO ŞI SURORILE LUI directed by Alexander Nanau is the winner of the Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Documentary Film.TOTO ŞI SURORILE LUI brings us the astonishing family story of Toto (10), and his sisters, Ana (17) and Andreea (15). During their mother’s imprisonment, Toto passionately learns dancing, reading and writing, while his sisters try to keep the family together in a world that has long forgotten what the innocence of childhood should be. What happens when we discover that we can get more from life than our parents have to offer ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXtjJbB1Oh4 21st Sarajevo Film Festival Awards OFFICIAL AWARDS COMPETITION PROGRAM – FEATURE FILM HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST FEATURE FILM MUSTANG Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven SPECIAL JURY PRIZE SON OF SAUL / SAUL FIA Hungary Director: László Nemes SPECIAL JURY MENTION CHEVALIER Greece Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTRESS Güneş Şensoy, Doga Doğuşlu, Tuğba Sunguroğlu, Elit İşcan, Ilayda Akdoğan (MUSTANG / Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar) HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST ACTOR Yorgos Kéntros, Vangelis Mouríkis, Panos Kóronis, Makis Papadimitríou, Yorgos Pyrpassópoulos, Sakis Rouvás (CHEVALIER / Greece) COMPETITION PROGRAMME – SHORT FILM HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST SHORT FILM A MATTER OF WILL / BISERNA OBALA Montenegro Director: Dušan Kasalica SPECIAL JURY MENTION DAMAGED GOODS / KALO Bosnia and Herzegovina Director: Nermin Hamzagić SPECIAL JURY MENTION TUESDAY / SALI Turkey, France Director: Ziya Demirel COMPETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM HEART OF SARAJEVO FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM TOTO AND HIS SISTERS / TOTO ŞI SURORILE LUI Romania Director: Alexander Nanau SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR COMPETITION PROGRAMME DOCUMENTARY FILM TITITÁ Hungary Director: Tamás Almási SPECIAL JURY MENTION FLOTEL EUROPA Denmark, Serbia Director: Vladimir Tomić HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD ONE DAY IN SARAJEVO / JEDAN DAN U SARAJEVU Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria Director: Jasmila Žbanić Award for the best film of the Competition Programme – Documentary Film dealing with the subject of human rights. HONORARY HEART OF SARAJEVO Atom Egoyan, director Benicio Del Toro, actor KATRIN CARTLIDGE FOUNDATION AWARD 2015 Ran Huang CINELINK AWARDS EURIMAGES COPRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD A BALLADE Aida Begić / Adis Đapo ARTE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CINELINK AWARD HAMARAT APARTMENT Huseyin Karabey / Su Baloglu MACEDONIAN FILM AGENCY CINELINK AWARD THE SON Ines Tanović / Alem Babić LIVING PICTURES SERVICE CINELINK AWARD SOLDIERS Ivana Mladenović / Ada Solomon SYNCHRO FILM VIENNA CINELINK AWARD A BALLADE Aida Begić / Adis Đapo HAMARAT APARTMENT Huseyin Karabey / Su Baloglu THE SON Ines Tanović / Alem Babić EAVE SCHOLARSHIP Alem Babić WORK IN PROGRESS AWARDS POST REPUBLIC AWARD THE FIXER Adrian Sitaru / Anamaria Antoci RESTART AWARD GODLESS Ralitza Petrova / Rossitsa Valkanova YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD NEXT TO ME Serbia Stevan Filipović 21st SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL PARTNERS AWARDS HT ERONET AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM MUSTANG Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar Deniz Gamze Erguven HT ERONET AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM CHASING A DREAM Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia Mladen Mitrović ASSOCIATION OF FILMMAKERS IN B&H – “IVICA MATIĆ” AWARD Mirsad Purivatra for his contribution to B&H cinema Zoran Galić for his contribution to B&H cinema CINEUROPA PRIZE SUPERWORLD Austria Karl Markovics CICAE AWARD THE HIGH SUN Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia Dalibor Matanić EDN TALENT GRANT I LIKE THAT SUPER MOST THE BEST Croatia Eva Kraljević SARAJEVO SHORT FILM NOMINEE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2015 TRANSLATOR Turkey Emre Kayiş Best Pack & Pitch Award (Talents Sarajevo Pack & Pitch) The best pitch Anda Puscas Ismet Kurtulus BH FILM STUDENT PROGRAMME AWARD Best film: VEJDA: ENCHANTED WORLD OF FAIRIES Julia Klier (ASU Sarajevo) Special Jury Award IMPERATIV Jelena Ilić Todorović (Akademija umjetnosti Banja Luka) Special Jury Mention WOYZECK Adi Selimović (ASU Sarajevo) DOCU ROUGH CUT BOUTIQUE AWARDS Work in Progress Digital Cube Award KORIDA Siniša Vidović HBO Adria Award KORIDA Siniša Vidović IDFA Award LITTLE BERLIN WALL Toma Chagelishvili CAT &Docs Award CINEMA, MON AMOUR Alexandru Belc Croatian Radiotelevision Award (HRT) CINEMA, MON AMOUR Alexandru Belc
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Benicio Del Toro to Receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at 21st Sarajevo Film Festival
Academy Award®-winning actor Benicio Del Toro will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award for his extraordinary contribution to the art of film at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival.
Previous recipients of the festival’s most prestigious award include among others Angelina Jolie, Gael Garcia Bernal, Steve Buscemi and acclaimed international award-winning directors Jafar Panahi, Mike Leigh, Béla Tarr and Danis Tanovic. The Heart of Sarajevo Award was designed by French designer and filmmaker, Agnès B, who is also a patron of the festival.
Del Toro will present Fernando León de Aranoa’s drama “A Perfect Day”, in which he has a starring role, and which recently premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at the 68th Cannes Film Festival. The film will be screened as a part of the Open Air Program, the festival’s largest screening venue, where Del Toro will also receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo in front of an audience of 3,000 film enthusiasts.
The acclaimed actor will also hold a master class for the participants of Talents Sarajevo, a networking and training platform for emerging film professionals from Southeast Europe and Southern Caucasus. Since it was founded in 2007, Talents Sarajevo has become the regional hub for meeting and training of aspiring film professionals.
Throughout his career, Del Toro has earned critical accolades including winning an Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Steven Soderbergh’s “Traffic” and an Oscar® nomination for his work in Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu’s “21 Grams.” Re-teaming with Soderbergh to star in “Che”, the biography of Che Guevera, Del Toro’s performance won him the Best Actor award at Cannes in 2008 and again the following year at the Goya Awards in Madrid, Spain.
Del Toro made his motion picture debut in John Glen’s “License to Kill” opposite Timothy Dalton’s James Bond and has earned critical acclaim for his performances ever since. In addition to winning a Best Supporting Oscar® for “Traffic,” he has also garnered a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA Awards, Berlin International Film Festival’s Silver Bear Award as well as recognition from the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics, and the Chicago Film Critics Association.
Loved by audiences and critics alike, Del Toro has worked with such directors as Paul Thomas Anderson, Oliver Stone, Robert Rodriquez, Peter Weir, George Huang, Abel Ferrara, Guy Ritchie, Sean Penn, Susanne Bier, Terry Gilliam.
Del Toro can next be seen starring in Denis Villeneuve’s “Sicario” opposite Emily Blunt and Josh Brolin, which is scheduled for a September 18th, 2015 release by Lionsgate in the U.S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQfqygkNMqE
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19th Sarajevo Film Festival Opens Today, Friday August 16th with Film “AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER | TRAILER
AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER The 19th Sarajevo Film Festival opened today, Friday, August 16, 2013, (thru August 24, 2013) with a ceremony at the National Theatre hosted by Bosnian-Herzegovinian actress Marija Pikić. The ceremony was followed by a screening of AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER by the Bosnian-Herzegovinian director Danis Tanović. This latest film by Danis Tanović won the Silver Bear at the 63rd International Film Festival in Berlin. The film’s protagonist Nazif Mujić also received a Silver Bear. In addition to the two official awards, the film received a special mention by the Ecumenical Jury.
AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER is based on a true story and it deals with alienation and discrimination in contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian society. The film follows Nazif, who supports his family by gathering scrap metal. After his wife Senada is denied emergency treatment for a miscarriage, Nazif is ready to do everything in his power to save her life—desperately gathering more scrap metal and asking for help from non governmental and state institutions. In the following ten days, Nazif and Senada are fully exposed to the callousness of contemporary society.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtFrHUktgP8
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17th Sarajevo Film Festival Awards; Angelina Jolie Receives Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award
The 17th Sarajevo Film Festival wrapped up after it’s run from July 22nd thru 30th, 2011, and handed out awards for 2011. The big highlight of the festival was the presentation of the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo award to actress and humanitarian worker, Angelina Jolie along with Jafar Panahi and Emil Tedeschi. Jolie was in attendance to accept the award.
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM
The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film:
BREATHING / ATMEN
Director: Karl Markovics
Austria
Special Jury Award:
AVÉ
Director: Konstantin Bojanov
Bulgaria
The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Actress:
Ada Condeescu (LOVERBOY)
Romania
The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Actor:
Thomas Schubert (BREATHING / ATMEN)
Austria
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – SHORT FILM
The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film:
MEZZANINE / MEZANIN
Director: Dalibor Matanic
Croatia
Special Jury Mentions:
TAKE TWO / VTORI DUBAL
Directress: Nadejda Koseva
Bulgaria, Germany
DOVE SEI, AMOR MIO
Director: Veljko Popovic
Croatia
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM
The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Documentary Film:
A CELLPHONE MOVIE / MOBITEL
Director: Nedžad Begovic
BiH
Human Rights Award:
ECUMENOPOLIS: CITY WITHOUT LIMITS / EKÜMENOPOLIS: UCU OLMAYAN SEHIR
Director: Imre Azem
Turkey, Germany
HEART OF SARAJEVO HONORARY AWARD
Angelina Jolie, Actress, USA
Emil Tedeschi, Majority owner and President of the Governing Board of Atlantic Group
Jafar Panahi, Director, Iran
CINELINK AWARDS
CineLink A Jury:
BEHROOZ HASHEMIAN
CEDOMIR KOLAR
JACQUELINE ADA
GEORGES GOLDENSTERN
ANNAMARIA LODATO
MEHMET DEMIRHAN
REMI BURAH
EAVE scholarship
MARIA DRANDAKI
Living Pictures Service Award
THE WEDNESDAY CHILD
Director: Lili Horvath
Hungary
International Relations Arte Price
HUMIDITY
Director: Nikola Ljuca
Serbia
Centre national de la cinematographie Award
STAGE FRIGHT
Director: Yorgos Zois
Greece
Eurimages Award
YOZGAT BLUES
Director: Mahmut Fazil Coskun
Turkey
Special Mention
TOUCH ME NOT
Director: Adina Pintilie
Romania
CineLink Work in Progress Awards
CineLink Work in Progress Jury:
CAMILLE NEEL
REBEKKA GARRIDO
CAROLINE LIBRESCO
Restart Award
CHILD MINER
Directress: Alexandra Gulea
Romania
Post Republic Award
MOLD
Director: Ali Aydin
Turkey