Film directors Dea Kulumbegashvili (ᲓHome) and morina visa (relocation) They are the joint winners of the Baumi Script Development Award 2022, an independent film scholarship created in honor of the late German producer Karl Baumgartner (Le Havre, Sils Maria Clouds).
Georgian film director Kulumbegashvili won the next feature film project for the treatment. History, which follows a rural Georgian obstetrician who performs illegal abortions. German-Kosovo filmmaker Morina deserves his next feature film Hatice and ShabanTaking care of a family in rural Kosovo who loses a farm and is forced to move to a city to live.
Both will share a cash prize of $21,000 (€20,000) that will be awarded for developing their respective screenplays.
Kulumbegashvili’s debut role, ᲓHome, The story of a woman trapped in an isolated community of Jehovah’s Witnesses living in rural Georgia, selected at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, sadly canceled due to COVID-19, and also shown in Toronto, San Sebastian and Busan . Georgia selected it at the 2021 Oscars in the category of best international art.
morina relocationThe Kosovo emigrant’s debut in Germany, who is the target of relentless xenophobic bullying, premiered at Sundance and Berlin in 2020. It was also nominated for an Oscar and represented Kosovo in the International Art Race 2021. (No film made the shortlist for the Oscars) .
Hungarian director Ildiko Enied (in body and soul, my wife’s story) presided over a jury that chose this year’s Baum Prize winner. The Baumi Prize, created in 2015, aims to support the kind of “free and independent” auteur cinema that Baumgartner was known for. The German producer pioneered international co-production and helped international authors such as Aki Kaurismმაki, Olivier Asayas, Emir Kusturica and Kim Ki-duk to make films.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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