Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, Helen Naveriani’s Georgian drama about a 40-year-old independent woman whose new love with a man leads to an existential awakening, won the first prize for best feature film at the 2023 Sarajevo International Film Festival. writes about it Hollywood reporter.
Ekaterina Chavleishvili, who played the lead role, received the Best Actress award. The awards were handed out at the Heart of Sarajevo ceremony on Friday night.
The Best Actor award went to Jovan Ginich, who made his debut for his role as a Serbian teenager in Vladimir Perisic’s film The Lost Country. The picture is about the 1990s. The hero found himself between student protests against the authoritarian regime of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and loyalty to his mother, who turned out to be the regime’s press secretary.
Ukrainian director Filipp Sotnichenko received the award for independent director for the movie “Palisiade”. A slow-paced crime drama about two friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, who investigate a colleague in Western Ukraine in 1996, months before Ukraine signed the European Convention on Human Rights.
The festival’s best documentary award went to Serbian director Nemanja Vojnovic’s film “Bottles”, about marginalized people and the large-scale, unhealthy garbage dump in Belgrade’s suburbs. Macedonian director Kumena Novakova received the award for the best film addressing human rights issues. We are talking about the painting “Silence of Reason” published in the archives of The Hague Court of Human Rights Assessment, which describes how women were used as “weapons” in the Bosnian War.
The award for the best short film went to the animated film “27 by Flora Anna Buddha”, about a 27-year-old woman who still lives with her family and dreams of escaping from the boring daily life.
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