24/08/2015 - The Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry section shone the spotlight on the upcoming films by talents from South-East Europe

Aida Begić receiving the Eurimages Award during the CineLink ceremony (© SFF)

As the main sections of the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival drew to a close with the awarding of the Heart of Sarajevo and the various other prizes (read more), the gathering’s industry segment, CineLink, conducted its own ceremony, highlighting the best projects taking part in this year’s edition (read more). Indeed, the co-production market awards, handed out by a jury comprising representatives of Arte France, the Cannes Festival and the Netherlands Film Fund, among others, were shared out among Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey and Romania. Renowned Bosnian director Aida Begić was given the Eurimages Co-production Development Award and one of the Synchro Film Vienna CineLink Awards for her new project, A Ballad; her fellow countrywoman Ines Tanović, the director of Our Everyday Life [+see also:
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In the Work in Progress section (read more), the jury of which included representatives of the Doha Film Institute, Memento Films and Post Republic, the winners were The Fixer by Romania’s Adrian Sitaru (with the Post Republic Award), Godless [+see also:
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Finally, the Docu Rough Cut Boutique documentary workshop (read more) also gave out trophies to Korida by Siniša Vidović (the Work In Progress Digital Cube Award and the HBO Adria Award), Little Berlin Wall by Toma Chagelishvili (the IDFA Award) and Cinema, Mon Amour [+see also:
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For more information, pay the festival’s website a visit.

(Translated from Spanish)