Hungarian-Romanian short film “Amok” from director Balázs Turai picked up one of the top short film prizes at the Sarajevo Film Festival, which handed out its awards last night.
The film was among ten films presented in the Academy Award® qualifying Competition program – Short Film and won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Film.
See below for the full list of short film winners
COMPETITION PROGRAM – SHORT FILM
Jury:
Ido Abram (Deputy Director of the EYE Film Filmmuseum, Netherlands)
Morgane Dziurla-Petit (Director, France)
Christos Massalas (Director, Greece)
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Film – Academy Award® qualifying
Amok
Hungary, Romania
Director: Balázs Turai
Award in the amount of 2,500 €
Special Jury Mention
5pm Seaside
Austria, Greece
Director: Valentin Stejskal
COMPETITION PROGRAM – DOCUMENTARY FILM
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Documentary Film
Jury:
Hilal Baydarov (Director, Azerbaijan)
Salome Jashi (Director, Georgia)
Margje de Koning (Artistic Director of Movies that Matter, Netherlands)
We, … Composition
Kosovo, Germany
Director: Visar Jusufi
Award in the amount of 2,000 €
COMPETITION PROGRAMME – STUDENT FILM
Jury:
Ludmila Cvikova (Creative consultant, curator and advisor, Slovakia/Netherlands)
Maya Dreifuss (Director, Israel)
Nduka Mntambo (Head MA of Film programme at the Netherlands Film Academy, Netherlands)
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Student Film
It’s Not Cold For Mosquitoes
Croatia
Directors: Josip Lukić, Klara Šovagović
Award in the amount of 1,000 €, sponsored by the Regional Cooperation Council.
EUROPEAN SHORT FILM CANDIDATE FOR THE 2022 EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
Jury:
Réka Busci (Director, writer and art director, Hungary)
Valentina Maurel (Director, Costa Rica)
Alban Ukaj (Actor, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Bachelorette Party
Directors: Lola Combourieu, Yann Berlier
The winner receives a candidature for the European Film Academy Best Short Film Award.
The 28th Sarajevo Film Festival ran from August 12-19, during which short films from Europe and the Southeast European region were presented in the aforementioned categories as well as projects from Qatar, Israel and other parts of the world in sidebar programs such as “Short Cuts to Qatar,” “TeenArena Shorts,” “La Cinef Cannes: Winners,” or the “European Film Academy’s Short Film Tour with subsections like “Passaggi d’Autore” and “Zagreb Film Festival – Best of Checkers.”
