04/05/2014 - Clio Barnard's film wins the international competition, while Mina Djukic's feature debut triumphs in the Balkan selection

Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant [+see also:
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The Special Jury Prize in the international competition went to the Ukrainian-Turkish co-production Love Me by Maryna Er Gorbach and Mehmet Bahadir Er.

In the Honey and Blood (Balkan) Competition, Serbian director Mina Djukic's The Disobedient [+see also:
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The Best Balkan Actor Prize went to Nik Xhelilaj for his role in Crossroads, directed by Faysal Soysal (Turkey), while Croatia's Nevio Marasovic won the Best Balkan Director Award for Vis-à-vis [+see also:
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Slovenian director Goran Vojnovic's Chefurs Raus! [+see also:
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In the Middle Length Competition, the Silver Goddess Award for Best Film went to Sunny by Barbara Ott from Germany, while special mentions were given to Latif Hasolli for the cinematography on Ilirjan Himaj's One of Them (Kosovo) and Croatia's Tanja Golic for the screenplay of her film By Chance.

The Audience Award went to Stephen Frears's Philomena [+see also:
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Lastly, Macedonia's Kushtrim Bekteshi and Sasho Pavlovski received the Best Pitch Award within the festival's PriFORUM industry segment for An Unforgettable Spring in the Forgetful Village.