The 12th Sarajevo Film Festival, the biggest film festival in South-Eastern Europe, closed on Saturday with Slovenian filmmakers Marko Santic and Blaz Kutin bagging three prestigious prizes.
Santic and his short fiction debut "Good Luck Nedim" impressed the jury of the short film competition programme as well as the jury conferring the EFA/UIP Best Short Movie Award.
By winning the EFA/UIP award the Croatian-born student of the Ljubljana film school and his story about the implications of artificial human boundaries have directly entered the European Film Academy Award competition.
Scriptwriter and director Kutin, on the other hand, was chosen as one of the three winners of the CineLink script and film project competition.
Kutin, also the recipient of New Talent in the European Union Award at the Cannes Film Festival this year, was granted financial support for his "Lara" project, a the story about a woman revaluing her life on her 60th birthday.
The film Gospodjica (Miss) by young Swiss director of Croatian-Bosnian descent Andrea Staka won the Festival's top prize, the Heart Of Sarajevo Award.
According to the organisers, more than 100,000 film fans attended the screenings of 170 films from 41 countries around the world during nine festival days.
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