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Three awards for Three Worlds at Prishtina

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- Catherine Corsini's Three Worlds won three awards, including best film, at the fourth PriFest film festival in Prishtina

Catherine Korsini's Three Worlds [+see also:
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won two Golden Godess awards at the fourth PriFest film festival in Prishtina (September 24–October 1) - best film and best actress for Kosovo-born Arta Dobroshi, as well as the Media Award, given by the Dritan Hoxha Foundation.

Algeria's Asli Nabil received the best actor award for his tole in The Repentant [+see also:
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by Merzak Allouache. Konstantin Bojanov's Ave received the Special Jury Award, while best director prize was shared between Austria's Umut Dag for Kuma [+see also:
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and Hungary's Bence Fliegauf for Just The Wind [+see also:
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A special mention was given to The House [+see also:
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by Zuzana Liova from Slovakia. The Red Godess award for the best Balkan film in the section Honey and Blood went to Srdjan Dragojević's The Parade [+see also:
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. Dutch director Rolf van Ejik's Vast received the Silver Goddess award for the best mid-length film.

The audience award went to Agnus Dei [+see also:
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by Agim Sopi from Kosovo. The festival featured the third edition of PriFilmFORUM, designed to introduce European professionals to Kosovo's film industry and present the possibilites for international co-productions and access to European funds to the local film-makers. The forum included representatives of the MEDIA Programme, European Film Promotion, France's CNC, Norway's SØRFOND, German Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, the Berlinale, and Connecting Cottbus.

"As an unexplored film territory with talented filmmakers and industry professionals who so far had not had much chance for international exposure, and are eager to create a functioning film industry and develop international collaboration, Kosovo has a good chance to catch the attention of foreign producers," said Alexandra Strelkova, representative of the Slovak Film Institute in the EFP, which the Kosovo Cinematography Centre (KCC) joined in May.

Since its founding in 2010, KCC has supported two majority co-production projects with Germany, Visar Morina's Father and Isa Qosja's Three Windows and a Hanging and a minority co-production with Albania, Gold by Bujar Alimani.

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