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#awards 2013

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Competition Programme Sarajevo Film Festival Competition Programme screens world, international and regional premieres of feature, short, animated and documentary films from Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey.

As of this year the Competition Programme included four more countries: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Moldova.

The selection within this programme stands for the Festival’s devotion to discovering new talents from this region.

For more information about Competition programmes, please visit www.sff.ba or contact us at programmes@sff.ba

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1. 19th Sarajevo Film Festival Award Winners / 2. Crew of the film IN BLOOM / 3. Bobo Jelčić and Zdenka Gold / 4. Béla Tarr / 5. Roberto Olla / 6. Bogdan Diklić / 7. Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Film / 8. Heart of Sarajevo Award / 9. Crew of the film SICKFUCKPEOPLE / 10. Dyana Gaye and Danny Glover / 11. Red Carpet / 12. Audience at Closing Ceremony

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3 COMPETITION PROGRAMME – FEATURE FILM The Heart of Sarajevo Award for the Best Film: IN BLOOM / GRZELI NATELI DGEEBI Directors: Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß (Georgia) Financial Prize (16.000 EUR) is provided by Council of Europe Special Jury Award: A STRANGER Director: Bobo Jelčić (Croatia, B&H) Financial Prize (10.000 EUR) provided by Agnes B. (10.000 EUR) The Heart of Sarajevo Award for the Best Actress: Lika Babluani and Mariam Bokeria (IN BLOOM / Georgia) Financial Prize (2.500 EUR) The Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Actor: Bogdan Diklić (A STRANGER / Croatia, B&H) Financial Prize (2.500 EUR)

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COMPETITION PROGRAMME – SHORT FILM The Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Film: SHADOW OF A CLOUD / O UMBRĂ DE NOR Director: Radu Jude (Romania) Financial Prize (2.500 EUR) Special Jury Mentions: RABITTLAND Director: Ana Nedeljković and Nikola Majdak,jr (Serbia) PRIDE / ČEST Director: Pavel G. Vesnakov (Bulgaria, Germany) COMPETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM The Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Film: SICKFUCKPEOPLE Director: Juri Rechinsky (Austria) Financial Prize (3.000 EUR) provided by the Swiss Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Special Jury Mention: YUGOSLAVIA, HOW IDEOLOGY MOVED OUR COLLECTIVE BODY/ JUGOSLAVIJA, KAKO JE IDEOLOGIJA POKRETALA NAŠE KOLEKTIVNO TELO Director: Marta Popivoda (Serbia, France, Germany) Special Jury Prize: THE CLEANERS Director: Konstantinos Georgousis (Greece) Financial Prize (2.500 EUR) is provided by Al Jazeera Balkans.

Human Rights Award: MARRIED TO THE SWISS FRANC Director: Arsen Oremović (Croatia) Financial Prize (3.000 EUR) provided by the Swiss Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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HEART OF SARAJEVO HONORARY AWARD Béla Tarr, Director (Hungary) Roberto Olla, Executive Director of Eurimages, the Council of Europe support fund for European cinema (Italy) KATRIN CARTLIDGE FOUNDATION AWARD Dyana Gaye AUDIENCE AWARD Best feature film: CIRCLES, Director: Srdan Golubović Best documentary film: A WORLD NOT OURS, Director: Mahdi Fleifel

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#festival in brief

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Festival 2013 in numbers

21 programmes / 214 films from 59 countries / 11 venues / 577 employees and 380 volunteers / more than 230,000 Euros in prizes to films and projects / more than 1,300 accredited guests / more than 800 accredited media representatives from 32 countries / over 100,000 visitors at all the programmes

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#tribute to The audience, guests, and participants of this year’s Sarajevo Talent Campus had the opportunity to meet director Cristi Puiu at Career interview.

In previous years, Sarajevo Film Festival hosted and presented retrospectives of the world’s most prominent authors, to a superb response of both the audience and the media. Guests of the Sarajevo Film Festival Tribute to Programme in previous years were: Steve Buscemi - 2000 Mike Leigh - 2001 Stephen Frears - 2002 Peter Mullan - 2003 Dušan Makavejev and Gaspar Noe - 2004 Alexander Payne -2005 Abel Ferrara and Béla Tarr - 2006 Ulrich Seidl & Tsai ming-Liang - 2007 Todd Haynes - 2008 Jia Zhang-ke 2009 Bruno Dumont 2010 Lucrecia Martel 2011 Todd Solondz 2012

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1. Actor Danny Glover / 2. Actors Adam Bakri and Waleed Zuaiter / 3. Tribute to public interview: Director Cristi Puiu and moderator Mihnea Maruta / 4. Jury of the Competition Programme Feature Film: Charles Tesson, Christine A. Maier, Uliks Fehmiu, Mirela Oprisor and Danis Tanović (President of the Jury) / 5. Actor Emile Hirsch and director David Gordon Green / 6. Doha Film Institute representatives: Chadi Zeneddine, Nikolaos Bempis Kolyfas, Rajesh Singh, Paul Miller, Abdulaziz Al-Khater, Rod Holden, Elia Suleiman with Yasmine Hamdan / 7. Director Ante Novaković and actor Armand Assante / 8. Director Srdan Golubović / 9. Director Ari Folman and one of the selectors of Kinoscope Programme Mike Goodridge / 10. Director Pablo Berger / 11.

Director Sebastian Lelio / 12. Photographers at Red Carpet / 13. Red Carpet / 14. Actor Nazif Mujić and director Danis Tanović

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#industry

CineLink, Sarajevo Film Festival’s co-production mar-

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ket selects around 15 most promising feature projects in development and financing stage from Southeast Europe suited for European co-production. CineLink Work in Progress continuously showcases future success stories on the festival circuit. CineLink also offers an awards fund of over 160.000 Euros in cash and services. To apply with a project, participate at the market or find more information about CineLink, please visit our website www.sff.ba. For projects in development please contact us at cinelink@sff.ba and on wip@sff.ba for projects in shooting or post.

CineLink Awards 2013 EAVE Scholarship: Milena Džambasović Cinelink Excellence Award: TABIJA, Director and Writer: Igor Drljača Living Pictures Service CineLink Award: HOUSE OF OTHERS, Director: Rusudan Glurjidze ARTE International Relations CineLink Award: DOGS, Director and Writer: Bogdan Mirica CNC CineLink Award: THE FIXER, Director: Adrian Sitaru Eurimages Coproduction Development Award: PARK, Director and Writer: Sofia Exarchou Work in Progress Awards 2013 The Postrepublic Award THREE WINDOWS AND A HANGING, Director: Isa Qosja The Restart Award THE LAMB, Director, Writer and Producer: Kutluğ Ataman Special Mention: MANPOWER, Director and writer: Noam Kaplan CineLink Co-production Market: 20 - 23 August 2014 CineLink Work in Progress: 20 - 22 August 2014

Industry Terrace is the new business, meet3

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ing and social space, meant to service business with rights and licenses for the films at the festival, as well as the use of production services in the region.

We invite your company to attend the Sarajevo Film Festival and benefit from: - Prearranged 1-to-1 meetings with leading international sales agents / buyers from SEE / producers with projects in pre-production / equipment manufacturers - Moderated interview info session about your company for up to 10 participating producers and sales agents / equipment rentals / exhibitors (limited number of slots) - Access to industry screenings of the films in competition - Access to video library of all titles in the festival - Extensive networking opportunities

Docu Rough Cut Boutique selectes five projects from the Region providing them coaching, expert advice and access to decision-makers that can have crucial influence on moving the projects forward in their final stage. During six intensive group sessions and dozen individual ones, the selected teams and mentors focus on fine tuning the rough cuts. For more information, please visit www.sff.ba or contact us at rcb@sff.ba Docu Rough Cut Boutique Awards 2013 FIFDH Geneva Award: THE MAN FROM MIDJA, Directors: Eka Papiashvili, Carsten Böhnke DOK. Inkubator Award: THE MAN FROM MIDJA, Directors: Eka Papiashvili, Carsten Böhnke HBO Adria Award: MIA, MYSELF AND AN EXTRA CHROMOSOME, Director: Eva Kraljević Work in Progress Digital Cube Award ROMA RALLY, Director: Gábor Hörcher Docu Rough Cut Boutique 17 - 19 August 2014

Regional Forum is a major annual conference on the film industry in Southeast Europe that presents three days of keynote speeches, round tables, workshops

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and presentations, delivered by high profile international and regional experts. For more on topics, speakers and your attendance please contact us at regionalforum@sff.ba Regional Forum: 21 – 23 August 2014

Minimarket,

a platform designed for promotion of short films, will continue to enhance their circulation internationally and bring filmmakers together with prominent European short film festival programmers and professionals active in sales and distribution of short films. Get in touch with the team and discover what Minimarket can do for your short film minimarket@sff.ba.

Sarajevo Talent Campus becomes Talents Sarajevo New name, new logo, same event From 2014, the former Sarajevo Talent Campus will become Talents Sarajevo. The eight edition of the film talents based community will appear under a new name with a new logo, and will keep the similar format. The programme is launched in 2007 in collaboration with Berlin International Film Festival and Berlinale Talents.

What? A networking platform for emerging actors, directors, scriptwriters, producers and film critics from 17 countries from Southeast Europe and Southern Caucasus.

Why? - meet fellow filmmakers - exchange views with renowned film experts - learn about current trends in cinema - take part in workshops - enter filmmaking collaborations with fellow participants and much, much more When? The call for submissions will be open from March 1 - May 1, 2014. The 8th edition of Talents Sarajevo will take place from August 16-21, 2014.

Sarajevo City of Film Make a short film on a micro budget with the maximum production value.

Step 1: Attend Talents Sarajevo Step 2: Meet your peers, develop an idea together and submit your script.

Step 3: Get selected.

Step 4: Develop your project.

Step 5: Get a green-light.

Step 6: Shoot the film for 3 days in Sarajevo with a professional crew.

Step 7: Screen your film during the Sarajevo Film Festival and let us promote your talent!

Stay tuned! For more information, please visit www.sff. ba or contact us at talent-campus@sff.ba

Operation Kino Every year, as part of our MEDIA Mundus supported project Operation Kino, the Sarajevo Film Festival together with the Transylvania International Film Festival, the Sofia International Film Festival and the Istanbul International Film Festival select about 15 feature films each and take on a tour to the cinematically, politically and socially most deprived parts of our regions. In cooperation with Reelport GmbH, a number of participating titles are offered on the Operation Kino Video on Demand platform.

Also, a selected number of titles are on offer to digital cinemas across the world as an Operation Kino Cinema on Demand package, operated under Reelport’s Europe’s Finest label. For further information check www.operation-kino.com; www.operacijakino.ba or contact us at operationkino@sff.ba

1. Sarajevo Talent Campus Opening: Jean-Michel Frodon and Leos Carax / 2. Industry Terrace / 3. Festival Drink with Doha Film Institute at Industry Terrace / 4. Regional Forum: Cultural policy: How to boost the impact of creative industries on local societies and economies? / 5. Regional Forum: Production and financing: Coproducing with Germany on lower budgets / 6. CineLink

Laško Summer Nights

Novi Grad Municipality Hall

#venues

Red Carpet

Cinema City

!hej Open Air Cinema

Open Air Cinema Vatrogasac

Festival Square

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