safe placeCroatian writer, director and star Juraj Lerotic’s debut was a big winner at the 2022 Sarajevo Film Festival, winning the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film and the Best Actor award for Lerotic.
Critics favorite at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival, safe place It is a heartbreaking autobiographical family drama in which Lerotich is a man trying to save his depressed younger brother from suicide.
“It’s hard to make a movie about the loss of someone close, but I processed as much as I could before shooting,” said Lerotich. the hollywood reporter. “As an author, it somehow fascinates me that the horror that happened to me and my family is possible. Before this event, I didn’t know that everything could spiral out of control so quickly, so radically… I wrote this reflexively. I would write the same reflection if something beautiful happened to me.”
safe place It premiered at the 75th Locarno Film Festival, where it won three awards, including Best New Director, Best Actor for Goran Marković, who plays the younger brother, and Best First Feature Film.
The Best Director award at the 2022 Sarajevo Film Festival went to Ukrainian filmmaker Maryina Er Gorbach for her brutal war drama. Klondike. The Ukrainian-Turkish co-production tells the story of a Ukrainian family living on the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Donbass region at the beginning of the war. Er Gorbach became the best director Klondike in the World Cinema Drama section at Sundance earlier this year.
Vicky Cripps won the Sarajevo Award for Best Actress for her role as Empress Elisabeth of Austria. BodyThe same role that won the Star of Luxemburg award in the “Certain View” category at Cannes this year.
The 28th Sarajevo Film Festival, the region’s premier film festival and one of Southeast Europe’s premier film festivals, ended on Friday night.
Complete list of winners of the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film
safe place (Croatia), director: Juraj Lerotic
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Address
Klondike (Ukraine, Turkey), direction: Maryina Er Gorbach
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress
Vicky Cripps for this Body (Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, France)
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor
Yurai Lerotich, safe place (Croatia)
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary
Museum of the Revolution (Serbia, Croatia, Czech Republic) Director: Srđan Keča #Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Short Film
We… composition (Kosovo, Germany), director: Vizar Yusuf
Human Rights Award
Bigger than trauma (Croatia), director: Vedana Pribacic
Special Jury Prize
fragile memory (Ukraine, Slovakia), director: Igor Ivanko
Special Jury Mention (for a short documentary)
Babajanjá (Croatia), director: Ante Zlatko Stolica
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Film
Crazy (Hungary, Romania), director: Balázs Turai
Special Mention by the Jury
5 hours at the beach (Austria, Greece), director: Valentin Stejskal
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Student Film
It’s not cold for mosquitoes. (Croatia), director: Josip Lukic, Klara Shovagovic
Special award for the promotion of gender equality
After a year (UK, USA), Director: Charlotte Wells
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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