Director Nikola Lezaic has triumphed at the 2010 Sarajevo Film Festival after his drama Tilva Ros claimed the Best Film title at the event in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The movie, about two teenagers growing up in a struggling mining town in eastern Serbia, was awarded the Heart of Sarajevo prize on Saturday, marking the end of the nine-day festival.
Tilva Ros also earned its young star Marko Todorovic the Best Actor accolade, while Mirela Oprisor walked away with the Best Actress honour for her role in Romanian film Marti, Dupa Craciun (Tuesday, After Christmas).
Hollywood star Morgan Freeman was the guest of honour at the 16th annual ceremony and met with local filmmakers on Saturday ahead of a screening of his Oscar-nominated movie Invictus, in which he portrays former South African president Nelson Mandela.
The movie, about two teenagers growing up in a struggling mining town in eastern Serbia, was awarded the Heart of Sarajevo prize on Saturday, marking the end of the nine-day festival.
Tilva Ros also earned its young star Marko Todorovic the Best Actor accolade, while Mirela Oprisor walked away with the Best Actress honour for her role in Romanian film Marti, Dupa Craciun (Tuesday, After Christmas).
Hollywood star Morgan Freeman was the guest of honour at the 16th annual ceremony and met with local filmmakers on Saturday ahead of a screening of his Oscar-nominated movie Invictus, in which he portrays former South African president Nelson Mandela.
- 8/1/2010
- WENN
Sarajevo - Tilva Ros, a Serbian film about love and skateboarding, has won the 16th Sarajevo Film Festival. Marko Todorovic, one of the actors in the film by director Nikola Lezaic, took the best actor award at the close of the festival late Saturday. Tilva Ros is a drama about two boys from a mining town in Serbia who try to win over a French girl with their skateboard stunts. It was among the 201 feature, short and documentary films from 57 countries shown during the nine-day festival that drew an audience of around around 100,000. Clint Eastwood's Invictus whose star Morgan Freeman was the festival's guest of honor was the closing film at the festival.
- 8/1/2010
- Monsters and Critics
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