Archive Cinema City 2014.
Jury members of the film selection NATIONAL CLASS of the Cinema City – International Film Festival in the assembly:
1. Loic Magneron
2. Raymond Phathanavirangoon
3. Peter Stumbur
held the final session after careful consideration of all films in NATIONAL CLASS competition programme and decided to award the following films:
1) National Class Best film Award – IBIS statuette for the Best Film in the ’National Class’ competition programme goes to the film: The Disobedient.
Explication: for its quirky cast of characters, its lush cinematography and its ability to deliver a unique cinematic experience.
2) The Best Directing Award – IBIS statuette in the ’National Class’ competition programme goes to Mina Đukić, director of The Disobedient.
Explication: for a promising young director whose uncompromising vision is aided by her control of visuals and sounds.
3) The Best Male Role Award – IBIS statuette in the ’National Class’ competition programme goes to Muhamed Dupovac for his role in So Hot Was the Cannon.
Explication: for his mature and sensitive performance as a mischievous child growing up in dramatic wartime circumstances.
4) The Best Female Role Award – IBIS statuette in the ’National Class’ competition programme goes to Hana Selimović for her role in The Disobedient.
Explication: for her brave and emotionally versatile performance as a woman facing the crossroads of her life.
5) Special Mentions – Diploma in the “National Class” competition programme goes to
The Undertaker
Explication: for its surprisingly humorous yet unsettling portrait of a man who must bear the weight of his daily contact with death.
Nymph
Explication: for the filmmakers' ability to successfully achieve their intentions in delivering an entertaining film.
UP TO 10.000 BUCKS
Jury members of the film selection Up to 10,000 Bucks of the Cinema City – International Film Festival in the assembly:
1. Sarita Matijević
2. Nikola Majdak Jr.
3. Dean Radovanović
held the final session after careful consideration of all films in Up to 10,000 Bucks competition programme and decided to award the following films:
1. Up to 10,000 Bucks Best Film Award – IBIS statuette for the best film in the Up to 10,000 Bucks competition programme goes to the film Stray Dogs, by director Atanu Mukherjee.
Explication: Stray Dogs uses a minimalistic and well-aimed dramatic structure to speak of system-imposed relation between the privileged and the oppressed, the mercurial nature of such relations, and discovery of a Man outside the dynamics of hierarchy.
2. Special Mention – Diploma in the Up to 10,000 Bucks competition programme goes to Vladimir Tagić’s Emergency Exit.
Explication: for deftly delivering the satirical and absurd nature of the relation between an individual and the environment that surrounds him.
3. Special Mention – Diploma in the Up to 10,000 Bucks competition programme goes to Roberto Santaguida’s Goran.
Explication: for original directorial approach and remarkable methods for presenting the everyday life of its protagonist.
FRESH DANUBE FILMS
Jury of the film selection Fresh Danube Films of the Cinema City – International Film Festival:
1. David Gonzalez
held the final session after careful consideration of all films in Fresh Danube Films competition programme and decided to award the following films:
Fresh Danube Films Best film Award, IBIS statuette for the Best Film in the ’Fresh Danube Films’ competition programme goes to the film Free Entry, by Yvonne Kerékgyártó
Explication: A refreshing, humble and heartfelt coming-of-age tale set in a place that is part of everyone’s teenage years, a music festival, where the small things of life dance to the rhythm of music, and where the vision of the young filmmaker makes it through many difficulties to get somewhere special.
DECISIONS OF THE JURY OF THE SERBIAN FIPRESCI SECTION
The jury of FIPRESCI Serbia, comprised of Milan D. Špiček, president; Dejan Dabić and Boris Gigov, chose Boban Skerlić’s So Hot Was the Cannon as the best film from the National Class selection.
Explication: The jury of FIPRESCI Serbia had a tremendous pleasure to watch the films from two competitions selections, Fresh Danube Films and National Class, the latter carrying the name of one of our all time cult classics. Regretfully, the number of films at this year’s National Class selection was limited, but our filmmakers have proven that even the hardest of times are more easily endured through culture. Of the films that competed for this important critical recognition our unanimous decision was to award the film that was shaped into a fierce story that has happened to us not long ago. This film, interwoven with dark humor, managed to avoid catch 22, and steer clear from political connotations. Therefore, the jury of FIPRESCI Serbia chooses Boban Skerlić’s So Hot Was the Cannon as the best film of this year’s National Class selection.
For the best film from the Fresh Danube Films selection, the jury chose Velvet Terrorists directed by Pavol Pekarčík, Ivan Ostrochovský, and Peter Kerekes.
Explication: The jury of FIPRESCI Serbia unanimously decided to award Velvet Terrorists, Slovakian-Czech-Croatian co-production, directed by Pavol Pekarčík, Ivan Ostrochovský, and Peter Kerekes. Reflecting on three subversive protagonists during the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, this film examines the relations between fiction and non-fiction film. Both in terms of subject matter and form, this film leaves in its wake the search for the limits of human freedom.
SELECTION OF BEST REGIONAL MUSIC VIDEOS
Jury members of the competition programme of regional music videos of the Cinema City – International Film Festival in the assembly:
1. Aleksandar Ilić
2. Boris Miljković
held the final session after careful consideration of all the music videos from this competition programme, and decided to award the following music video:
1. Best regional music video – IBIS statuette for the best regional music video goes to director Stefan Đorđević for his music video for Wahine by Threesome.
Explication: for its authentic emotions and superb production.
