SARAJEVO () - A Croatian film about deuce Bosnian immigrants who left hand the rural area during the 1992-95 warfare for a new sprightliness in the United States was chosen on Saturday as the best flick at the 14th Sarajevo film festival.
The jury, chaired by Turkish film director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, awarded "Buic Riviera" by managing director Goran Rusinovic and based on a novel by Bosnian author Miljenko Jergovic with the 25,000 euro ($37,160) Heart of Sarajevo award.
The celluloid tells the story of a Bosnian Muslim and a Bosnian Serb world Health Organization meet on a abandoned road in the United States. They spend the next 24 hours together, engaging in a psychological game of mutual accusations which will change their lives for good, just like the war they had both fled.
"To receive this accolade is a great honor both for the crew and the festival itself," Rusinovic aforementioned.
"Buic Riviera" was selected from 10 films from Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey which competed at the Balkan's largest photographic film forum.
Leon Lucev and Slavko Stimac were chosen as best actors for their role in the film. The topper actress honour went to Ayca Damagaci for her role in "My Marlon and Brando" by Turkish director Huseyin Karabey.
The nine-day fete showed 174 films and documentaries.
The Sarajevo Film Festival was launched near the end of the war and grew into the biggest regional film rival.
(Writing by Maja Zuvela)
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