Jury:
President of the Jury: Mirjana Karanović, actress

Jury members:
BENEDEK FLIEGAUF, Director, Hungary
CHRISTIAN JEUNE, Director of the Film Department of the Cannes Film Festival, France
ANAMARIA MARINCA, Actress, Romania
WIELAND SPECK, Director of Panorama Programme, Berlin International Film Festival, Germany

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film:

ORDINARY PEOPLE
Director: Vladimir Perišić
Serbia, France, Switzerland

Explanation of the Jury: ORDINARY PEOPLE, as a pure moment of cinema, explores the universal pattern of abuse of male youth through the military structure.

Main award of the Sarajevo Film Festival’s Competition Programme provided by Council of Europe (25,000 €)

The Special Jury Award:

DOGTOOTH / KYNODONTAS
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Greece

Explanation of the Jury: DOGTOOTH depicts in a metaphorical way, with elements of clinical humour how the traditional family structure had to retreat into a fortress of control and safety, inflicting its members with psihological damage that resonates with us all.

Financial award provided by Agnes B. (10,000 €)

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress:

AGGELIKI PAPOULIA
MARY TSONI
DOGTOOTH / KYNODONTAS
Greece

Financial award provided by the International Airport Sarajevo (2,500 €)

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor:

RELJA POPOVIĆ
ORDINARY PEOPLE
Serbia, France, Switzerland

Financial award in amount of 2,500 €

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – SHORT FILM

Jury:
President of the Jury:
HANNAH MCGILL, Artistic Director, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland

Jury members:
MARIAN CRISAN, Director, Romania
IGOR STANKOVIĆ, Founder and director of the MCF MegaCom Film Distribution Company, Serbia

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Film:

PARTY / TULUM
Director: Dalibor Matanić
Croatia

Financial award in the amount of 3,000 €

Special Jury Mentions:

CIAO MAMA
Director: Goran Odvorčić
Croatia

THE HISTORY OF AVIATION / A REPÜLÉS TÖRTÉNETE
Director: Balint Kenyeres
Hungary, France

Financial awards in the amount of 1,000 €

COMPETITION PROGRAMME – DOCUMENTARY FILM

Jury:
President of the Jury:
ZIJAH GAFIĆ, Photographer, B&H

Jury members:
ALICE KLARA ARNOLD, Filmmaker and a film lecturer, Switzerland
CHRIS MCDONALD, Executive director of Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Canada

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film:

THE CAVIAR CONNECTION / KAVIJAR KONEKŠN
Director: Dragan Nikolić
Serbia

Award in the amount of 3,000 € is granted by The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Special mention:

CONSTANTIN AND ELENA / CONSTANTIN SI ELENA
Director: Andrei Dascalescu
Romania

Human Rights Award:

HEATED BLOOD / VRELA KRV
Director: Marko Mamuzić
Serbia

Award in the amount of 3,000 € is granted by The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

HONORARY HEART OF SARAJEVO AWARD: MANFRED SCHMIDT, Executive Director Of The MDM Fund

The Award is offered in recognition of the recipient’s outstanding contribution to film industry and support in development of the Sarajevo Film Festival.

Through the commitment and vision of its leading executive, the MDM Fund has played a significant role in aiding the development of regional film industry through numerous co-productions facilitated through the festival’s Industry Section and CineLink Project. Over the past 5 years, MDM has supported an outstanding 31 regional films, while their participation at the Sarajevo Film Festival, guided by the immense enthusiasm of Manfred Schmidt, has demonstrated a common understanding and recognition of potential that led to the realization of 5 CineLink projects that went on to screen at festivals around the world and receive numerous awards and critical recognition. MDM further supported two of the most recent Bosnia and Herzegovina films, „Snow“ by Aida Begic and „On The Path“ by Jasmila Zbanic. Though all this, Sarajevo Film Festival recognizes the immense contribution of Manfred Schmidt and MDM towards not only the enablement and promotion of this region’s cinema and authors but also the enrichment of the international film scene with new voices, outlooks and film language.

CINELINK AWARDS

Jury: Georges Goldenstern, Cedomir Kolar, Behrooz Hashemian, Jacqueline Ada, Ulf Sigvardson, Annamaria Lodato i Mainholf Zurhorst

EAVE Scholarship:
Snežana Marić

Excellence Award:
The Exchange by Eran Kolirin

Restart Award:
Zincograph by Javor Gardev

Goeteborg International Film Festival Fund Award:
The Scab by Srđan Vuletić

CNC Award:
Come To My Voice by Huseyin Karabey

International Relations ARTE Award:
The Key by Timur Makarević

SYNCHRO Film And Video Award:
The Scab by Srđan Vuletić
Come To My Voice by Huseyin Karabey
The Key by Timur Makarević

CineLink Work in Progress Award:
THE POST REPUBLIC AWARD

Jury: Rebekka Garrido, Laurent Danielou, Bernd Buder

If I Want to Whistle I Whistle by Florin Serban

15th SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL – PARTNERS AWARDS

SHORT FILM NOMINEE SARAJEVO FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2009
Jury: Corneliu Porumboiu, Dylan Leiner, Eva Vezer

The Herd
Director: Ken Wardrop
Ireland

The winner also receives a nomination for the European Film Academy (EFA) Best Film Award.

CICAE
Jury: Erdmann Lange, Turi Edit Csenkine, Giovanni Petricciani

Eastern Plays
Director: Kamen Kalev
Bulgaria

The International Confederation of Art Cinemas (CICAE) awards a film from the Competition Programme – Features. The awarded film will receive CICAE support in terms of distribution, exhibition and audience outreach, through a network of 3.000 cinemas.

FIPRESCI
Jury: Leo Soesanto, Damir Radić, Nadezhda Marinchevska

Ordinary People
Director: Vladimir Perišić
Serbia, France, Switzerland

EDN TALENT GRANT

On The Way To School
Director: Orhan Eskikoy, Ozgur Dogan
Turkey

EDN Talent Grant has been created as co-operation between the Sarajevo Film Festival and the European Documentary Network with the purpose of supporting promising new documentary filmmakers from the region.

HT ERONET AUDIENCE AWARD
SEVDAH
Director: Marina Andree
Croatia, B&H

ATLANTIC GROUP AWARD
LIBERATION IN 26 PICTURES
Ivan Ramljak, Marko Škobalj

KATRIN CARTLIDGE FOUNDATION
This year, the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation marks the fifth year of presenting an award, in the form of a one-year scholarship, inspired by the life and work of late British actress Katrin Cartlidge. This year's scholarship recipient is Juanita Wilson. This year's award winner was selected and presented to viewers at SFF by actor Stellan Skarsgard.