The new festival’s programme checked video that had in past times come displayed just like the plans in the Sofia Group meetings, ranging from Tom Shoval’s Youngsters and Stephan Komandarev’s New Reasoning using Olena Fetisova and you can Serge Avedekiyan’s Paradjanov so you can Matteo Oleotto’s Zoran My personal Nephew The fresh Idiot and you can Tonislav Hristov’s documentary Heart Dinner Stories
Georgia is the top champion in the 18th model of your Sofia Globally Film Festival (SIFF) and this signed from the sunday towards Huge Prix for Greatest Movie and greatest Manager award planning to Levan Koguashvili’s second feature Blind Times.
Managed around the world by the Films Boutique, it’s already reserved to help you display screen from the April celebrations in the Wiesbaden (goEast) and you will Lecce and also in Odessa during the July.
Presenting the latest Grand Prix to help you Koguashvili, the fresh Internationally Jury’s chairman producer Alexander Rodnyansky said that new jury’s discussion above prize got ?survived no more than ten minutes and you may was unanimous
On the other hand, Vladimer Katcharava of Tbilisi-situated 20 Steps Creation obtained the brand new Sofia Meetings’ €10,000 Digimage – LVT Postproduction Award to own Miriam Khachvani’s Dede which he pitched inside the new Also Minus You to definitely plan.
The Unique Jury Award went to Indian movie director Geethu Mohandas’ Liar’s Dice on Globally Race for Earliest and you may Second Clips, since Youthfulness Prize received so you can Matteo Oleotto’s Zoran My Nephew The fresh new Idiot .
The new festival-goers voted Svetoslav Stoyanov’s The very last Black colored Sea Pirates because this year’s receiver of the Audience Honor, when you find yourself Joshua Oppenheimer’s harrowing This new Work Off Destroying set in their long-line off differences by picking up the brand new Documentary Jury’s Siemens Honor to own Better Documentary, having an alternative Explore given out so you’re able to Svetoslav Draganov’s Existence Almost Wonderful.; in addition to Secteur Boyar Greatest Balkan Motion picture Award is presented to the fresh new Turkish-German co-creation Yozgat Blues because of the Mahmut Fasil Coskun.
Almost every other prizes provided the newest Bulgarian Motion picture Critics’ Award getting Most readily useful Balkan Motion picture – to help you Lusin Dink’s SaroyanLand – therefore the Top Bulgarian Ability Movie Prize to Stephan Komandarev’s Brand new Reasoning which in fact had started SIFF into the a unique gala evaluating towards six March.
Talking at the beginning of this new honours service, festival manager Stefan Kitanov got the opportunity to revise the viewers regarding Federal Palace off People of one’s initiative by six European festivals contacting the brand new globally movie people to exhibit their solidarity to your flick festivals in Ukraine.
Odessa Internationally Motion picture Festival’s programme director Alik Shpilyuk try greet towards phase to simply accept a duplicate of your declaration to your signatures of now certain 65 in the world movie celebrations and thanked his associates globally because of their assistance..
Apart from the aforementioned honor towards the Georgian project Dede, brand new Sofia Meetings’ around three-individual jury out-of French sales agent Virginie Devesa out-of AlphaViolet, and you will brands Jonas Dornbach and Guillaume de Seille Kiss Russian Beauty studiepoeng gave the fresh Focusfox Studio Postproduction Award for the best enterprise in the Plus Without One to program so you can Mira Fornay for their particular third element Prepare, F**k, Kill (Slovakia) additionally the Hungarian Motion picture Laboratories Honor to find the best enterprise when you look at the another Movie Projects range-up to Paul Negoescu’s next feature Do not let It Go (Romania).
A special Talk about – that have postproduction attributes out-of Vienna’s Synchro-Motion picture – was created from the jury to help you regional music producer Veselka Kiryakova for Milan Lazarov’s investment Nanook that can obtained an offer to go to brand new Mediterranean Movie Institute’s knowledge program.
Those planning to the 2009 model off Sofia Group meetings provided movie funders Manfred Schmidt (MDM), Brigitte Manthey (Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg), Robert Balinski (Shine Film Institute), Darko Basheski (Macedonian Motion picture Fund), Julien Ezanno (CNC), Miroljub Vuckovic (Flick Cardio Serbia), salespeople Rezo Clips, Beta Movies, m-attract, Alpha Violet, Fortissimo Films, Pyramide Global and you may Nuts Stack, and you can development people Mact Manufacturing, Cine In addition to Filmproduktion, Punk Flick, A great.S.A good.P. Video clips, Blind Place Photographs and you will Arizona Video.
