4 Hearts of Sarajevo for EAVE graduates

Awards August 2024

Locarno Film Festival

14 awards for EAVE graduates at the Locarno Film Festival and 5 Locarno Pro Awards:

International Competition

DROWNING DRY by Laurynas Bareisa, co-producer: EAVE MW graduate Matiss Kaza won the Leopard for Best Direction (Laurynas Bareisa) and the Leopard for Best Performance (Gelmine Glemzaite, Agne Kaktaite, Giedrius Kiela, Paulius Markevicius)
GREEN LINE by Sylvie Ballyot, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jean-Laurent Csinidis won the MUBI Award for a Debut Feature
SALVE MARIA by Mar Coll, producer: EAVE graduate and Spanish National Coordinator Maria Zamora received a Special Mention
YOUTH (HARD TIMES) by Wang Bing, co-producers: EAVE graduate Gilles Chanial, Denis Vaslin, Fleur Knopperts received a Special Mention
AGORA by Ala Eddine Slim, co-producer: EAVE graduate Julie Viez won the Pardo Verde
SKILL ISSUE (DER FLECK) by Willy Hans, producer: EAVE and TTB graduate Julia Cöllen received a Pardo Verde Special Mention

Cineasti del Presente Competition

HANAMI by Denise Fernandes, producer: EAVE graduate Eugenia Mumenthaler won the Award for Best Emerging Director and received a Special Mention
LESSON LEARNED by Balint Szimler, co-producers: EAVE graduate Julia Berkes, EAVE graduate and Hungarian National Coordinator Viktoria Petranyi won the Leopard for Best Performance (Anna Mészöly) and received a Special Mention
WHEN THE PHONE RANG by Iva Radivojević, producers: EAVE MW graduate Andrijana Sofranić Šućur received a Special Mention

Other awards

PUENTES project REINAS by Klaudia Reynicke, producers: PUENTES and EAVE+ graduate Britta Rindelaub, EAVE participant Thomas Reichlin, EAVE+ graduate Valerie Delpierre won the UBS Audience Award
YOUTH (HARD TIMES) by Wang Bing, co-producers: EAVE graduate Gilles Chanial, Denis Vaslin, Fleur Knopperts won the FIPRESCI Award

Locarno Pro Awards

MARES by Ariadna Seuba, produced by EAVE graduate Marieke van der Bersselaar won the Jannuzzi Smith Award.
STILL LIFE WITH GHOSTS by Enrique Buleo, producer: EAVE graduate Snezana van Houwelingen won the Le Film Français Award
BOURGEOIS PARANOIA by Lukas Nathrath, producer: EAVE participant Linus Günther won the Alphapanda Market Breakout Award
6 MOIS 6 JOURS by Michale Boganim, producer: EAVE graduate Dorothe Beinemeier won the Script Consultancy Residency at DreamAgo offered by the Valais Film Commission
ITHACA by Alessandro Grande, producers: EAVE graduates Alessandro Amato, Luigi Chimienti won the Ticino Film Commission Residence Award

www.locarnofestival.ch

Sarajevo Film Festival

ARCADIA by Yorgos Zois, producers: EAVE graduates Maria Drandaki, Veselka Kiryakova won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Director
THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE by Mo Harawe, producer: EAVE graduate Oliver Neumann, co-producer: EAVE graduate Nicole Gerhards won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress
HOLY WEEK by Andrei Cohn, producer: EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor
LIKE A SICK YELLOW by Norika Sefa, producer: EAVE graduate Besnik Krapi won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Documentary Film
A PICTURE TO REMEMBER by Olga Chernykh, producer: TTB graduate Flavia Oertwig won Best Documentary Film
YOUR LIFE WITHOUT ME by Anna Rubi, co-producer: EAVE graduate Annika Hellström won the Human Rights Award
THE SKY ABOVE ZENICA by Nanna Frank Møller & Zlatko Pranjic, producer: EAVE Head of Studies Lise Lense-Møller won the Special Environmental Awareness Award
FAMILY THERAPY by Sonja Prosenc, producers: EAVE graduates Tamara Babun, Rok Secen, Jarle Bjørknes, EAVE MW and FFF graduate Marta Zaccaron won the CICAE Award
EXCURSION by Una Gunjak, producers: EAVE graduate and National Coordinator Bosnia Herzegovina Amra Baksic Camo, EAVE graduate Adis Djapo, co-producers: EAVE graduates Sinisa Juricic, Jelena Mitrovic, EAVE graduate and Norwegian National Coordinator Gary Cranner won the Ivica Matić Award for Best Film from Bosnia and Herzegovina for 2023

www.sff.ba

Cinelink Industry Days

BIG WOMAN by Milica Tomovic, producer: EAVE graduate Dragana Jovovic won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at CineLink Industry Days.
AIR IN A BOTTLE by Aida Begic, producer: EAVE graduate Snezana van Houwelingen won the Film Center Serbia Cinelink Award
EAVE project UPTIGHT ASS by Matija Gluscevic, producer: EAVE graduate Tena Gojic, TTB graduate and EAVE participant Carna Vucinic won the ArteKino International Prize
ANGELMAKER by Cristina Grosan, producer: EAVE and TTB graduate Anda Ionescu won the TV Drama Vision Pitch Award
LULLABY by Keti Machiaviarani, producer: EAVE and TTB graduate Anda Ionescu won the Female Voices CineLink Award
HONEY BUNNY by Igor Jelinović, producer: EAVE MW graduate Rea Rajcic won the TRT Award
ELECTING MISS SANTA by Raisa Razmerita, producer: EAVE graduate Ion Gnatiuc, co-producers: EAVE graduates Anda Ionescu, Anamaria Antoci won the DOK Leipzig Preview Award and the Movies That Matter Award
BALTIC UXO by Agne Dovydaityte and Alexander Belinski, producer: EAVE graduate Dagne Vildziunaite won the Docu Talent Award at Docu Talents from the East, organised by the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival.
The 2025 EMERGING PRODUCERS were announced by the representatives of Ji.hvala IDFF:
- CHANGE graduate Vahagn Khachatryan / Armenia
- EAVE MW graduate Danilo Lazovic / Serbia
- EAVE SLATE graduate Ashley Smith / Sweden

https://www.cinelinkindustrydays.com

Melbourne International Film Festival

FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis, producer: EAVE MW graduate Matiss Kaza won the Bright Horizons Special Jury Award.

https://miff.com.au

New Horizons International Film Festival

EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING by Gabor Reisz, producers: EAVE graduate Julia Berkes, EAVE graduate and Hungarian National Coordinator Viktoria Petranyi won the Grand Prix at the New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw.

Polish Days

SACRED LAW by Bartosz Kruhlik, producer: EAVE graduate Kuba Kosma won the Fixafilm Postproduction Award at the Polish Days of New Horizons International Film Festival.
FOUR WINTERS IN EDIFICIO CUBA by Aleksandra Maciuszek, producers: EAVE graduates Valerie Montmartin, Claudia Calviño won the No Problemo Music Award
ROMANTIC PSYCHOS by Lukasz Grzegorzek, producer: EAVE graduate Natalia Grzegorzek won the No Problemo Music Award

www.nowehoryzonty.pl

The Norwegian International Film Festival

3 awards for EAVE graduates at the Haugesund Film Festival:

THERE IS STILL TOMORROW by Paola Cortellesi, producer: EAVE FFF graduate Lorenzo Gangarossa scooped the Eurimages Audentia Award and the Audience Award
POOR THINGS by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won Best Foreign-language Film

Nordic Co-Production Market

HALIMA by Naima Mohamud, co-producer: EAVE graduate and Norwegian National Coordinator Gary Cranner won the Best Project Award. This recognition not only earns the project a spot at the Producers Network at next year’s Cannes Marché du Film, but also comes with €3,500 in in-kind support from Totalpost Finland.

https://www.filmfestivalen.no/

Durban International Film Festival

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by Payal Kapadia, producers: EAVE graduate and Dutch National Coordinator Frank Hoeve, CPI graduate Thomas Hakim, co-producer: EAVE graduate Gilles Chanial won Best Feature Film at the Durban International Film Festival.
THE WAIT by Imran Hamdulay, producer: EAVE graduate Khosie Dali won Best South African Short Film
THE BATTLE FOR LAIKIPIA by Daphne Matziaraki & Peter Murimi, producer: CPI graduate Toni Kamau won the Amnesty International Durban Human Rights Award
DAHOMEY by Mati Diop, producer: Interchange graduate Judith Lou Lévy received a Special Mention from the Amnesty International Jury

http://ccadiff.ukzn.ac.za

Durban FilmMart

DEAR TARKOVSKY by Firas Khoury, producer: EAVE graduate Asma Chiboub won the TRT award.
MY FATHER KILLED BOURGUIBA by Fatma Riahi, producer: EAVE graduate Sara Ben Hassen won the Hot Docs-Blue Ice Docs Award
BENIMANA by Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo, producer: EAVE graduate Samantha Biffot won the Sørfond Award
HOW MANY NIGHTS HOW MANY DAYS? by Alaa Dajani, producer: EAVE and CPI graduate Kesmat El Sayed won the FIDADOC Award

https://www.durbanfilmmart.co.za/

Dokufest Prizren

AFTERWAR by Birgitte Stærmose, producers: EAVE Head of Studies Lise Lense-Møller, EAVE graduates Fredrik Lange, Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari won the Audience Award at the DokuFest Prizren
EAVE project STRAY BODIES by Elina Psykou, producers: EAVE graduates Ivan Madeo, Veselka Kiryakova received a Special Mention in the Balkan Dox Competition
LIKE A SICK YELLOW by Norika Sefa, producer: EAVE graduate Besnik Krapi won the National Competition.

https://dokufest.com/en

THE SONG OF FLYING LEAVES produced and directed by EAVE graduate Armine Anda won Best Animated Film at the Ariano International Film Festival and Best Short Animation at the Lucania Film Festival, Italy.

https://www.facebook.com/thesongofleaves

Page published 30 August 2024. Updated 4 September 2024.