Archive Cinema City 2008.
I EXIT POINT:
- Grand prix
- Best directing
- Best acting
- Special recognition for artistic achievement (award is a diploma, which is not mandatory, since the jury decides whether or not to present it)
II NATIONAL CLASS
- Grand prix - The best domestic film
- Best directing, domestic film
- Best screenplay, domestic film
- Best editing, domestic film
- Best photography, domestic film
- Best original score, domestic film
- Best actor in a leading role, domestic film
- Best actress in a leading role, domestic film
III Up to 10,000 Bucks
- Best film
- The second award (award is a diploma, which is not mandatory, since the jury decides whether to present it or not)
- The third award (award is a diploma, which is not mandatory, since the jury decides whether to present it or not)
On June 21st 2008, at Cinema City Film & Media festival’s closing ceremony, awards were presented in the following categories:
Jury FIPRESCI Serbia with members Vladimir Džudović (Radio Beograd 1) chairman, Vladimir Crnjanski (Dnevnik, Novi Sad) and Brankica Drašković (Građanski list, Novi Sad) decided to present award for best film of the festival to Art of Negative Thinking by a Norwegian director Bård Breien in competitive selection “Exit Point”, stating:
Being politically incorrect in a positive way, author Bård Breien deals with the problems of people with special needs. Being humorous and solemn at the same time, through intimate drama in macabre rhythm, it confronts audience with a global problem of absence of sincere interpersonal communication in a modern world.
Jury for Serbian branch of FIPRESCI at Cinema City festival in Novi Sad 2008, with members Dejan Ognjanović (chairman, Popboks), Dejan Petrović (Radio Belgrade, III program) and Slobodan Radosavljević (Radio Belgrade, III program) unanimously came to a decision to award Swedish horror-drama Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in). The award is given for engagement in broadening the expression of the genre and for successfully overcoming distinctions between genre and art film. Director Tomas Alfredson managed to find a balance between Hollywood and European approach and gave an auteur film with intimate atmosphere, which combines the best from both worlds. This genre story gives a subtle, carefully tinted message of friendship which transcends all else.
Jury for the competition program for international and domestic feature film gave awards in the following categories:
- Award for Best film – Grand Prix went to Ballast, by director Lance Hammer
- Award for special contribution to modern film expression went to The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela by director Olaf de Fleur Johannesson
- Award for best domestic film went to Love and Other Crimes by director Stefan Arsenijević
- Award for best directing (domestic film) went to Dejan Zečević, director of The Fourth Man
- Award for best screenplay (domestic film) went to Nebojša Romčević for On the Beautiful Blue Danube
- Award for best editing (domestic film) was given to Marko Glušac for The Fourth Man
-Award for best photography (domestic film) was given to Miloš Kodemo for Miloš Branković
-Award for best original score (domestic film) went to Boris Kovač for On the Beautiful Blue Danube
-Award for best actor in a leading role (domestic film) went to Nikola Kojo for his role in The Fourth Man
- Award for best actress in a leading role (domestic film) went to Ana Franić for her role in On the Beautiful Blue Danube
Within Up to 10 000 Bucks selection, four awards were presented in the following categories:
- Special award – plaque, went to Illusion by director Burhan Qurbani
Commentary: for refined approach on the subject which deals with helplessness of an individual living in megalopolis
- Special award – plaque, went to The Golden Nunchucks by director Zoran Bojević
Commentary: for the most entertaining and also the only feature film of the selection, for illusion that justice prevails, even if it’s only within trash genre.
- Special award – plaque, went to Joe Goes to Serbia by director Sonja Blagojević
Commentary: For emotional and faithful way of depicting human relationships within different cultures
- Best film award – IBIS statue and DV camera with additional video equipment went to Lullaby for a Boy
Commentary: For intimate approach to a grand historic subject.
