Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, Elene Naveriani’s Georgian drama a couple of 40-something impartial girl who has an affair that triggers an existential awakening, has received the highest prize for greatest movie on the 2023 Sarajevo Worldwide Movie Competition.

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry star Ekaterine Chavleishvili additionally took the very best actress honor on the Coronary heart of Sarajevo awards, which have been handed out within the Bosnian capital Friday evening.

The perfect actor prize went to newcomer Jovan Ginic for his function in Vladimir Perisic’s Misplaced Nation as a Serbian teenager within the Nineteen Nineties, caught between pupil protests towards the authoritarian regime of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and his loyalty to his mom, who occurs to be the spokeswoman for the regime.

Ukrainian filmmaker Philip Sotnychenko received greatest director for La Palisiada, a slow-burning crime drama about two previous pals, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, who examine the homicide of their colleague in western Ukraine in 1996, just a few months earlier than Ukraine will signal the European Conference on Human Rights.

The competition’s prize for greatest documentary went to Bottlemen from Serbian director Nemanja Vojinovic, which follows the marginalized males who work on the enormous unsanitary landfill on the outskirts of Belgrade. Macedonian filmmaker Kumjana Novakova received the human rights award, given to the movie within the Sarajevo competitors that greatest addresses human rights points, for her documentary Silence of Purpose, which used the archives of the worldwide court docket of human rights within the Hague to discover how violence towards girls was used as a weapon within the Bosnian Warfare.

Novakova took half within the public dialogue on the inventive and media representations of violence towards girls, held in Sarajevo on Thursday. The dialogue was befell on a day of nationwide mourning throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina known as in response to a stunning triple-murder suicide within the northeastern Bosnian city of Gradacac final week, wherein a person live-streamed the homicide of his ex-wife. The Sarajevo competition suspended its common programming, with the general public dialogue as the one occasion of the day.

The Sarajevo jury, headed this yr by Australian actress Mia Wasikowska, additionally gave a particular jury award to Gergo Somogyvári’s documentary Fairy Backyard, which follows the unlikely friendship between a 19-year-old transgender teenager and a 60-year-old homeless man who reside collectively in a ramshackle hut within the woods outdoors Budapest. De Facto from director Selma Doborac received a particular jury prize for selling gender equality. The documentary takes an analytical strategy to look at how cinema can have interaction with crimes towards humanity, excessive violence and state terror with out being complicit in them.

The prize for greatest quick movie, which qualifies the venture for Oscar consideration, went to 27 from Flóra Anna Buda, an animated movie a couple of 27-year-old girl who nonetheless lives together with her dad and mom and desires of escaping her dreary on a regular basis life.