Sarajevo Film Festival Awards 2006
12th Sarajevo Film Festival Awards – 2006 Hearts of Sarajevo
The 12th Sarajevo Film Festival was held between Aug. 18-26, 2006.
The winners at the 12th Sarajevo Film Festival were announced on Aug. 26, 2006.
The 12th Sarajevo Film Festival came to a close yesterday, Aug. 26. The Heart of Sarajevo Best Film prize went to Andrea Staka’s Das Fraulein (Germany / Switzerland / Bosnia-Herzegovina), the story of three female immigrants from the former Yugoslavia living in Zurich. (Das Fraulein also won the Best Film prize at this year’s Locarno Film Festival.)
The Best Actor winner was Rakan Rushaidat, for his "minimalist but effective performance" in All for Free / Sve Dzaba (Croatia / Bosnia-Herzegovina / Serbia), while the Best Actress Award was given to Marija Skaricic for her performance "built on unpredictable and unconventional emotional expression" in Das Fraulein.
Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross‘ political faux-documentary The Road to Guantanamo won the Audience Award.
The list of winners at the Sarajevo Film Festival was basically a regional affair, comprised almost exclusively of productions with creative and/or financial links to Southeastern Europe.
The festival’s Best Film prize is accompanied by €25,000. The Best Acting awards come with €2,500.
Feature Film
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film:
DAS FRAULEIN / DAS FRÄULEIN (Switzerland, Gemany, Bosnia and Herzegovina) by Andrea Štaka
Special Jury Award:
MUM’N'DAD / MAMA I TATA (Bosnia and Herzegovina) by Faruk Loncarevic
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress:
Marija Škaricic for DAS FRAULEIN / DAS FRÄULEIN (Switzerland, Gemany, Bosnia and Herzegovina) by Andrea Štaka
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor:
Rakan Rushaidat ALL FOR FREE / SVE DžABA (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia) by Antonio Nuic
Special Mention:
PAPER WILL BE BLUE / HIRTIA VA FI ALBASTRA (Romania) by Radu Muntean
Short Film
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film:
GOOD LUCK NEDIM (Slovenia) by Marko Šantic
Special Jury Mentions:
IT’S NOT THAT I KNOW, THAT’S JUST THE WAY IT IS / NIJE DA ZNAM, NEGO JE TAKO (Croatia) by Tanja Golic
and
THOUGHT OF THE DAY / SKEPSI TIS IMERAS (Greece) by Yiannis Gaitanidis
Documentary Film
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film:
FACING THE DAY / ŠTO SA SOBOM PREKO DANA (Croatia) by Ivona Juka
Human Rights Award:
UKOVAR – FINAL CUT / VUKOVAR – POSLEDNJI REZ (Serbia) by Janko Baljak
Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Awards: Mike Leigh, British director
"The award is given in recognition of the outstanding contribution to the art of cinema and the support to the development of the Sarajevo Film Festival."
and
Gavrilo Grahovac, Bosnia-Herzegovina Minister of Culture and Sports
"For his outstanding contribution to the development of the film industry of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to that the Sarajevo Film Festival."
Prix European Film Academy/UIP:
GOOD LUCK NEDIM (Slovenia) by Marko Šantic
Award for the best short movie granted by the International United Pictures. The winner is qualifying for the Award (EFA)
CICAE (Confederation Internationale des Cinemas d’art et Essai) Award:
PAPER WILL BE BLUE / HIRTIA VA FI ALBASTRA (Romania) by Radu Muntean
European Documentary Network Talent Award:
Demal Šabic for TWO SISTERS (STORY ABOUT LOVE) (Bonia-Herzegovina)
Audience Award:
THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross
Runners-up:
Carnival
Volver
Das Fräulein
Nafaka
Skritek
The Edge of Hope
Dear Father, Quiet, We’re shooting
Seven and a Half
The Melon Route
My Country, My Country
All for Free
Peaceful Warrior
Vukovar – Final Cut
The Hell
Best Teen Film: WHOLETRAIN (Germany) by Florian Gaag
Feature Film Jury: President of the Jury Jasmila žbanic, director (Bosnia and Herzegovina); Wouter Barendrecht, founder of Fortissimo Film Sales (the Netherlands); Jan Cvitkovic, director (Slovenia); Kim Dong-ho, director of the Pusan International Film Festival (Korea); Jérôme Paillard, director of the Cannes Film Festival Market (France)
Short Film Jury: President of the Jury: Valeria Golino, actress (Italy); Niki Mossböck, film editor (Austria); Ognjen Svilicic, director and screenwritter (Croatia)
Documentary Film Jury: President of the Jury: Peter Liechti, independent filmmaker (Switzerland); Anette Olsen, journalist (Denmark); Irene Bignardi, film critic (Italy)
EFA/UIP Jury: Susan Coulter, President of The Global Film Initiative; Stefan Arsenijevic, Film and TV director; Jytte Jensen, Curator in the Department of Film and Media at The Museum of Modern Art
CICAE Jury: Chiara Barbo, Cinema Critic at VIVILCINEMA; Astrid Kuehl, Managing Director of Hamburg Short Film Agency, co-director of Hamburg International Short Film Festival; Olivier Gicart, Cultural Affairs, Province of Hainaut, in charge of Cinema activities for the Art Cinemas Plaza in Mons and Le Parc in Charleroi
EDN Jury: Anette Olsen, freelance journalist; Peter Liechti, Independent filmmaker; Irene Bignardi, film critic and journalist
Sarajevo Film Festival: 2006 2007
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Locarno Film Festival Awards 2006
Jerusalem Film Festival Awards 2006
New Zealand Screen Awards 2006
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