23/08/2019 - Other winners include A Tale of Three Sisters, And Then We Danced and When the Persimmons Grew; the Cineuropa Prize went to Rounds

The 25th Sarajevo Film Festival announced its awards last night at a ceremony held in the National Theatre. Ena Sendarijević's Take Me Somewhere Nice [+see also:
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interview: Ena Sendijarević
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The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Director went to Turkey's Emin Alper for the Berlinale competition title A Tale of Three Sisters [+see also:
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interview: Emin Alper
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Bulgaria's Irini Jambonas, from Stephan Komandarev's Rounds [+see also:
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Levan Gelbakhiani, the star of Levan Akin's Cannes Directors' Fortnight entry And Then We Danced [+see also:
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interview: Levan Gelbakhiani
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In the Documentary Competition, the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film went to the Azerbaijani-Austrian co-production When the Persimmons Grew [+see also:
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Hungarian director Réka Szabó's The Euphoria of Being [+see also:
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Finally, the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Film went to Serbian filmmaker Stefan Đorđević for The Last Image of Father, which came straight from Locarno, where it picked up the Youth Jury Prize.

Here is the full list of Sarajevo Film Festival award winners:

Feature Competition

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film
Take Me Somewhere Nice [+see also:
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Heart of Sarajevo for Best Director
Emin Alper - A Tale of Three Sisters [+see also:
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interview: Emin Alper
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Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress
Irini Jambonas - Rounds [+see also:
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Heart Of Sarajevo for Best Actor
Levan Gelbakhiani - And Then We Danced [+see also:
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interview: Levan Akin
interview: Levan Gelbakhiani
film profile] (Georgia/Sweden/France)

Documentary Competition

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film
When the Persimmons Grew [+see also:
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Human Rights Award
The Euphoria of Being [+see also:
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Special Jury Prize
Stack of Material - Sajra Subašić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Short Film Competition

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Film (Oscar-qualifying)
The Last Image of Father - Stefan Đorđević (Serbia/Croatia/Greece)

Special Jury Mention
The Last Trip to the Seaside - Adi Voicu (Romania)

Student Film Competition

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Student Film
Sherbet - Nikola Stojanović (Serbia)

Partner awards

Cineuropa Prize
Rounds - Stephan Komandarev

CICAE Award
A Tale of Three Sisters – Emin Alper

Sarajevo Short Film Nominee for the Candidacy for the European Film Awards (Oscar-qualifying)
Excess Will Save Us - Morgane Dziurla-Petit (Sweden)

ICDN Casting Directors Award
Sara Törnkvist - Border [+see also:
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BH Film Student Programme

Best B&H Student Film Award
Costacurta (Tale of Satankrajina) - Saša Karanović

Special Jury Award
I’m Not Here - Sara Radusinović

Special Mention
Neither Sunny Nor Cloudy - Anvar Nijemčević