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Tilva Ros wins at Sarajevo, Bibliothèque Pascal receives the Cineuropa award

Director Nikola Lezaic has triumphed at the 2010 Sarajevo Film Festival after his drama Tilva Ros claimed the Best Film title at the event in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The movie, about two teenagers growing up in a struggling mining town in eastern Serbia, was awarded the Heart of Sarajevo prize on Saturday, marking the end of the nine-day festival. Tilva Ros also earned its young star Marko Todorovic the Best Actor accolade, while Mirela Oprisor walked away with the Best Actress honour for her role in Romanian film Marti, Dupa Craciun (Tuesday, After Christmas).

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Cineuropa presented its fifth festival award to Bibliothèque Pascal [+see also:
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by Szabolcs Hajdu, which tells the ugly and horrible story of a woman sold into prostitution as if it were a dark fairy tale.

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