The seventh „New Balkan Film Festival – BaNeFF“ was held in Stockholm, 19-21 December 2018. The guests of the Festival were directors: Olga Lazebnik from Ukraine, Aleksandar Vujović from Montenegro, Aleksandar Reljić and Miloš Škundrić from Serbia and Milan Petković from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Within the celebration of the Centennial of the First World War and Serbia’s participation, on the proposal of the Serbian Ministry of Culture and Information, programme of the Festival included movies from Serbia – „DUGO PUTOVANJE U RAT/Long road to war“, directed by Milos Skundrić and „SRBI NA KRFU- STO GODINA OD ALBANSKE GOLGOTE/ Serbs on Corfu – A Hundred Years since Albanian Golgotha“, directed by Sladjana Zarić.
The movies’ performances were attended by Swedish public, particularly artists and scholars, as well as by the Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the Kingdom of Sweden H.E. Dragan Momčilović, who participated in the debate after the films projection.
The jury of the BaNeFF 2018 documentary and short film festival, presented by Mikael Ruttkay (director), Hylin Håkan Pieniowski (director) and Olgica Lindquist (publicist), have decided to give the „Prize for the Best film“ to two movies: „ISTI/ The Same“ directed by Dejan Petrović, and to „DUGO PUTOVANJE U RAT/Long road to war“ directed by Miloš Škundrić.
The „Prize for the Best Female Achievement“ goes to the director of the „OKUPIRANI BIOSKOP/ Occupied cinema“ Senka Domanović.
Jury decided to give a “Special Prize” to movie „Veruda/ A Film About Bojan“ by Igor Brzinović.
“FESTIVAL special AWARDS for filmmakers courage to observe” go to:
1)”Бомбы кото рыевзорвали мир/ The bombs that blew up peace”, 2017, documentary dedicated to bombing of Belgrade in 1999, Ukraine, director Olga Lazebnik,
2) “Enkel/Grandson”, 2018, documentary, Serbia, director Aleksandar Reljić and
3)”Južni potez/ Southern Move”, 2018, documentary, Bosnia and Hercegovina, director Milan Petković.
“Festival Diploma” goes to “The Last Gift”, 2011, short film, Montenegro, directed by Aleksandar Vujović.
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