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International Film Festival
Transcending Borders
Bosnia-Herzegovina - Balkan - Worldwide |
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IFFTBW --- 1st EDITION / PARIS
January 11 - February 10, 22, 2023
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THE AWARDS :
BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA AND NEIGHBORS SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Sea by the River and River by the Sea
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Sovran Nrecaj |
Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina / 2021 / 0:28:16 |
Lume as a wife and mother, is left alone in two different period times, for different existential reasons. She hates the war, but she is forced to fight.
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JURY DECLARATION
"Sea by the River and River by the Sea" presents the merging between past and present, as well as the common social conscience with that of the private and intimate. It also positions the viewer in a realm where struggling and comfort are both merged to a point where we do not differentiate what is happiness and what is sadness. |
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SENSITIVITY AWARD
for sensual and intellectual sensitivity |
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Shekerni luge |
Suzana Dinevski |
Macedonia / 2021 / 0:24:30 |
Can one accidental meeting at a street light cause several worlds to collide? Elena, a young HIV positive woman meets Fillip, a young man at an intersection in the city of Skopje. Their strong feelings for each other makes their limited time together longing for more and leads to revealing more about themselves than they normally would, since both believe they will never see one another again.
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JURY DECLARATION
"Sugar People" manages the dialogue, the rhythm, the focalization of the narrative line in a subtle way where we are triggered and yet attached to the effects of sensitive medical conditions on everyday life and especially on love stories. |
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SURPRISE AWARD
for an astonishing and convincing approach |
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Obicnata Eli |
Lavinija Sofronievska |
Macedonia / 2021 / 0:15:43 |
Eli has only two personality traits: she works as a security guard at the Modern Art Museum and her only friend is her golden fish. The loneliness of the modern man, the framed life, as living in a fish ball and the internal cry for freedom are the main motives of this short film. But the question is are they enough of a motive for Eli to leave her workplace and live her life...
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JURY DECLARATION
"The Ordinary Eli" presents the thin line between depression and hope, between captivity and freedom, between written fate and aspire for better change. The fish is well used as a metaphor of the main character who wants to be free. |
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CREATING TOLERANCE AWARD
for works bringing cultures together in mutual understanding |
How I Beat Glue and Bronze
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Kako sam pobedio lepak i bronzu |
Vladimir Vulevic |
Serbia, Germany / 2020 / 0:30:00 |
When Gimi and his duck step out onto the patio in front of the building, they The daily life of Mihajlo, a factory worker in a neglected industrial town. Testimonies about his life are given by the people around him. At times, these people are seen as part of Mihajlo’s daily routine, but after the character leaves the stage, their voices remain as the narrator. What they don’t know is that Mihajlo obsessively steals tools from the factory and suffers from lost love. And they can’t anticipate what is going to happen one morning.
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JURY DECLARATION
"How I Beat Glue and Bronze" reflects on time and space of loneliness, and what would be the exit from this dark circle where factory work and prison work become quite similar. |
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Samir Karahoda |
Kosovo / 2021 / 0:14:38 |
In post-war Kosovo, driven by the ambition of keeping their beloved sport alive, two local players wander from one obscure location to another carrying with them the only possession of the club: their tables.
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JURY DECLARATION
"Displaced" articulates around the metaphor of the ping-pong game as a hold on hope, struggle, and winning. However, at the same time it reflects on the absurdity of our actions that in this metaphor they have no borders between serious life matters and gaming, between meaning and the absence of meaning in a postwar aftermath. |
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MENTION FOR THE SENSITIVITY AWARD
for for sensual and intellectual sensitivity |
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Kako sam pobedio lepak i bronzu |
Mladen Bundalo |
Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina / 2020 / 0:22:05 |
Nemas is a worker at a train repair factory in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and, like many young people around him, he is planning to go and work in Slovenia. Between homeland nostalgia and dreams for a better life, the film explores the dilemmas that arise when you decide to leave your country.
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JURY DECLARATION
"Nenad" reflects in a subtle cinematography on the status of still images and moving images. A border between memory and present, a poetical journey of displacement and hope in a conflictual sociocultural cohabitation. |
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MENTION FOR THE SURPRISE AWARD
for an astonishing and convincing approach |
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Lucija Oroz |
Croatia / 2021 / 0:04:50 |
Fear is part of our identity and we experience it in different ways. We grow up with it, and over time we overcome or suppress it. It is said that our eyes widen in fear; they grow where we face the unknown. In those moments, we give unrealistic proportions to some aspects of reality, such as time. Only when the fear is overcome, the eyes shrink back and the picture becomes clearer.
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JURY DECLARATION
"45''" succeeds to merge life animation, rhythm, photos, drawing, colors, composition, sound design, in a coherent production where narrative is embracing poetry, where linear is blended with non-linear perception. |
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MENTION FOR THE CREATING TOLERANCE AWARD
for works bringing cultures together in mutual understanding |
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Ado Hasanovic |
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Italy / 2020 / 0:15:40 |
On 8 September 2019, Sarajevo hosts its first Pride March. Are people ready for this event?
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JURY DECLARATION
"Let There be Colour" invites the conservative society to question the limits between right and wrong, and thus to accept or at least tolerate the Other's different perspectives. |
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