GRAND PRIX
by majority

Home Sweet Home
South Korea  
format/running time 35mm/17'
Produced in 2004.    
Short fiction film    

Born in South Korea in 1972. He won numerous international awards for his work with camera for the short films Q uick Service, Finger Print, Shave, Dust , including the award Cinefondation in cannes for I can fly to you… but you are cast spells upon... As a director he also signed Tomato Juice ( 2001 ) and Home Sweet Home ( 2004 ), the films with which he participated in many festivals worldwide.




At night, it's raining outside. Mom, Dad and Ji-Soo are watching TV anxiously. The news reports the fire at the kindergarten, where the little daughter and sister Ji-Hye goes to. Her name is on the dead list. The family moans about her death. There is a knocking on the door. Just then, Ji-Hye is waiting outside.

Director: Hye-Jung Um
Screenplay: Su-Won Shin, Seung-Il Choi, Hye-Jung Um
Photography: Zin-Zin Nam
Editing: Gwang-Seob Ahn
Music: Sung-Woo Cho
Sound: Mi-Ra Kim
Leading Roles: Gye-Nam Myeong, Nam-Hee Park, Bo-Hoon Jeong, Bo-Bae Han

knuadp97@knua.ac.kr

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GOLDEN MEDALLION OF BELGRADE FOR THE BEST FILM OF NATIONAL COMPETITION
by unanimous vote

CHICKEN ELECTIONS
Director : Goran Radovanović
Serbia and Montenegro
format/running time DIGITAL BETA/49'
produced in 2005.

Goran Radovanović was born in Belgrade in 1957. He graduated History of Arts from the Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. He started his career as a film critic, and in 1984. he started signing the screenplays and directing of numerous awarded films at both national and international festivals: Oktoberfest, Byzantium 1988, Columba urbica, My Fatherland – for Internal Use, Scale Model, Casting .... He founded his own production company «Namafilm», assembling some of the most important freelance filmmakers in the country. He lives and works in Belgrade. He has been a member of the European Film Academy since2004.

Question: What do a priest, a policeman, chickens and the author's aunt have in common?
Answer: They have never participated at the presidential elections.

Director : Goran Radovanović
Screenplay : Goran Radovanović
Photography : Radoslav Vladić
Editing : Steva Marić
Music : Nemanja Mosurović
Sound : Aleksandar Protić

PRODUCTION
FRZ: FILM I TON, NAMA FILM
Aleksaničkih rudara 39a, Beograd
Tel: +381 11 260 3762
princip@EUnet.yu
www.goranradovanovic.com

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GOLDEN MEDALLION OF BELGRADE FOR THE BEST FILM OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
by majority

RYAN
Canada
running time /13,50 '
Produced in 2004.
Animated film

Chris Landreth went into animation as a second career after a stint as an engineer. He received his MS degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois in 1986. For 3 years, he worked in experimental research in Fluid Mechanics at the University of Illinois before making his leap into computer animation. In 1994, Landreth joined Alias/Wavefront, a job to define, test and abuse animation software. In addition to well-mannered software, this work resulted in the production of animated short films, including The End (1995) and Bingo (1998).


Ryan is based on the life of Canadian animator Ryan Larkin. Thirty years ago, at the National Film Board of Canada, Ryan produced some of the most influential animated films of his time. Today, he lives on welfare and panhandles for spare change in downtown Montreal . How could such an artistic genius follow this path? Ryan won numerous awards , including the Academy award Oscar for the best animated short film, as well as the Canadian Oscar – “G enie Award” (2 005).

Director: Chris Landreth
Editing: Alan Code
Music: Fergus Marsh, Michael White
Sound: David McCallum
Voice: Felicity Fanjoy, Derek Lamb, Chris Landreth, Ryan Larkin
Animatori: Robb Denovan, Sebastian Kapijimpanga, Paul Kohut, Jeff Panko

PRODUCTION
COPPER HEART ENTERTAINMENT/ THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA
www.copperheart.ca
www.nfb.ca

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GOLDEN MEDAL OF BELGRADE FOR THE BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
by majority

Phantom Limb
USA
running time /28'
Produced in 2005.
Documentary film

Jay Rosenblatt has been making films for over 20 years. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have won numerous awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection of his films had a one-week theatrical run at New York 's Film Forum and throughout the country. Selected filmography: I Like It A Lot (2004), Friend Good (2003), I Used To Be A Filmmaker (2003), Prayer (2002), Nine Lives ( The Eternal Moment of Now , 2001), King of the Jews (2000), Restricted (1999), Human Remains (1998), The Smell of Burning Ants (1994), Short Of Breath (1990), Paris X 2 (1988), Blood Test (1985), Doubt (1981).

The death of a child triggers this collection of personal reflections on grief and loss. (Phantom Limb is the illusion that a limb still exists after it has been amputated).

Director: Jay Rosenblatt
Screenplay: Jay Rosenblatt
Photography: Ara Corbett, Todd Curtis, Jay Rosenblatt
Editing: Jay Rosenblatt
Music: Arvo Pärt, Eliane Radigue
Leading Roles: Tyler Cassity, Chris Cornet, John Lambert, George Dalzell
Voice: Beverly Berning

PRODUCTION
Jay Rosenblatt

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GOLDEN MEDAL OF BELGRADE
FOR THE BEST NON-DOCUMENTARY FILM OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
by majority

Bubački/Bugs
Macedonia  
running time /15'
Produced in 2004. 
Short fiction film  

Director, screenwriter, producer - N.E.P. (1995), mini TV serial Our Little One (2002). Bugs from 2004 was nominated for the Golden Bear in Berlin for the best short film.

Petar is an autistic child who lives in his own world, protected from the reality of despair and disintegration of his family. Nevertheless, reality penetrates his hidden world and destroys it. Petar takes revenge.

Director: Igor Ivanov
Screenplay: Igor Ivanov
Photography: Tomi Salkovski
Editing: Igor Andreevski
Music: Zoran Spasovski
Sound: Bratislav Zafirovski
Leading Roles: Georgi Krstevski, Vladimir Jachev, Labina Mitevska, Oliver Mitkovski
Costume Design: Marija Maninska

PRODUCTION
SEKTOR FILM

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GOLDEN MEDAL OF BELGRADE FOR THE BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM OF NATIONAL COMPETITION
by majority

THE COUNTRY OF VAJAJA
Director: Petar Jovanović
Serbia and Montenegro
format/running time DV/15 '
produced in 2004.
Documentary film

Petar Jovanović was born in Novi Sad in 1981. In 2000 he enrolled directing at the School of Arts in Novi Sad in the professor Bora Drašković's class. He has participated in the festivals in Maribor, Zagreb, Belgrade and Novi Sad with the films: The Razor, Decrescendo, Arousal of the Spring, Memorial of Isidor Bajić and his graduation work The Country of Vajaja . He has also signed the editing of the films Zorica Is Not Here, and Falling . He is at the post-graduate studies of the scenography design at the School of Arts in Belgrade.

Horvat Lukač and Rožika are among the last (and for sure the oldest) villagers living inthe abandoned farms surrounding the town of Kanjiža, where the traditional shepherds' dish «vajaja» is cooked. However, this is not an ethnological documentary, but a story about the life that we have almost forgotten, about the peace that we have lost, about the world that we are going to dream about one day...

Director: Petar Jovanović
Screenplay: Petar Jovanović, Banski Marija
Photography: Jovan Milinkov
Editing: Ivan Knežević
Music: Milan Nerin
Sound: Ljubiša Sremčević

PRODUCTION
Akademija Umetnosti Novi Sad
Đure Jakšića 7, Novi Sad
Tel: 021 422 177 Fax: 021 422 187

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GOLDEN MEDAL FOR THE BEST ANIMATED FILM OF NATIONAL COMPETITION
by majority

MIRROR
Director: Jelena Bešir
Serbia and Montenegro
format/running time 35mm/ 8'
produced in 2005.  
Animated film

Jelena Bešir was born in Zaječar in 1972. She has worked on animated films since 1998. She graduated animation at the Film School “Dunav film”. Jelena Bešir has participated at numerous film festivals and has received several awards. Her most significant films are The Bug (2001), The Bread (2002) Indigo or I am lying (2003, with Katarina Ćirilović and Ana Đorđević).

The film Mirror is a love story in which the dream and the reality are metaphors of the wish for freedom in another person.

Director: Jelena Bešir
Screenplay: Jelena Bešir, Goran Balaban
Photography: Balša Bošković, Sun Mandić
Editing: Milan Popović
Music: Milan Popović
Sound: Milan Popović, Damjan Ćirilović
Main drawer: Jelena Bešir, Nebojša Petrović
Main animator: Jelena Bešir, Nebojša Petrović

PRODUCTION
Akademski filmski centar Dom kulture "Studentski grad"
Bulevar AVNOJ-a 179, 11000 Beograd
011 26 91 442 fax. 011 31 93 889
afc@dksg.co.yu

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GOLDEN MEDAL FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM OF NATIONAL COMPETITION
by majority

PAPER PRINCE
Director: Marko Kostić
Serbia and Montenegro
format/running time DVD/16'
Produced in 2005.

Marko Kostić was born in 1973. Since 1998, a senior student at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade at the Film and TV Direction Department. Since 2001, he has been working part-time on RTS in the editorial office of culture-educational and science-educational programmes. In the recent years he has been writing film critics and essays, and he has also directed The Joint Travel (TV film), Street Dream, It Is Not Easy with the Man, Cobweb, The Face from the Screen, Hypnotized (short feature film), The Theory of Brandy, Sloba and Nikola Go To and Fro through Studenica, Opposite from Smoke (short documentary), A Guide through Belgrade (experimental film).

Seven-years old Julija is left alone at home when her parents go out. Thus it happens that Julija lets a strange man into the house. Through their contact the identity of all the actors is discovered, as well as the prevailing social establishment and the place of Julija's parents in it.

Director: Marko Kostić
Screenplay: Vladislava Vojnović
Photography: Miloš Spasojević
Editing: Neda Spasojević
Sound: Aleksandar Protić, Nikola Živković
Leading Roles: Andrej Šepetkovski, Milica Spasojević

PRODUKCIJA/PRODUCTION
LUKS FILM
Otona Zupancica 24, Novi Beograd
011 690 065
luksfilm@eunet.yu

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GOLDEN MEDAL FOR THE BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM OF NATIONAL COMPETITION
by majority

Vladimir Đukelić, born in Belgrade , is a student of Film and TV direction at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade . He has directed seven short films and several documentaries, TV programmes and commercials: The Day I Learned to Imagine (Kvadrat 2001), L'art pour l'art (FDU 2002), Triangle (FDU 2002), Abundance (FDU 2003), O.K, Let's Start from the Beginning (FDU 2003), Free Falling (FDU 2004), Four of Aces (FDU 2005). Documentary films: Pushing Off (co-director, Hemofarm 2004), Granny (FDU 2004) and Review (FDU 2004).

Nikola jumps out of a plane. Free falling. The last moment for re-examining. Searching for motivation, meaning of the life. Five-member commission is examining Nikola. Testing the conscience and sense. A collage out of time and space. Between the sky and the ground, waking and sleeping, memories and imagination. To open the parachute or to go on?

Director: Vladimir Đukelić
Screenplay: Vuk Ršumović, Vladimir Đukelić
Photography: Igor Vuković
Editing: Đorđe Stamenković
Music: archive
Sound: Željko Đorđević
Leading Roles: Stefan Kapičić, Nikola Kojo, Branko Cvejić, Ljiljana Blagojević, Marija Karan, Nebojša Milovanović, Aleksandar Srećković, Živko Grubor, Marko Janjić
Scenography: Mirko Milošević, Kristina Radosavljević
Costume Design: Ivana Guteša

PRODUCTION
FDU
Bulevar umetnosti 20, 11000 Beograd
011 214 0419 fax. 011 213 0862
fduinfo@eunet.yu

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GOLD MEDAL OF BELGRADE FOR THE DOMESTIK PRODUCTION FOR GROUP OF FILMS
by unanimous vote

FAKULTET DRAMSKIH UMETNOSTI, BEOGRAD/ "FACULTY OF THE DRAMATIC ART" Belgrade
FDU
Bulevar umetnosti 20, Beograd
Tel: 011 214 0419 Fax: 011 213 0862
fduinfo@eunet.yu

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T H E   F E S T I V A L ` S   A W A R D S
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We have found that competition was very strong. We regret we could not award all movies that deserve recognition specially from animation category.

We would like to give a special price for Michelangelo's Gaze by one of the greatest living artist in the film world.

1. Grand Prix to the author of both competiton programmes , international and national goes to “HOME SWEET HOME”, directed by Hye-Jung Um.

This film has original and refreshing approach with unexpected twists to a genre of story which usually belongs to dark cinema.

2. Belgrade Golden Medallion to the author of the best film in the international competition programme goes to “RYAN”, directed by Chris Laundreth.

This film is blend of documentary and animated images. As homage to Ryan Larkin, a great artist and one of the pioneers of Canadian animation.

3. Belgrade Golden Medallion to the author of the best in the national competition programme goes to “CHICKEN ELECTIONS”, directed by Goran Radovanovic.

This film sharply end witty sketches moral and social weaknesses of Serbian society.

4. Belgrade Golden Medal for the best documentary of the international programme goes to “PHANTOM LIMB”, directed by Jay Rosenblatt.

This cinematic essay treats physical, emotional and metaphysical loss in our lives in a sensitive personal way.

5. Belgrade Golden Medal for the best documentary film of the national competition programme goes to “THE COUNTRY OF VAJAJA”, directed by Petar Jovanovic.

For its sharp perception of the feeding rural culture this changing times.

6. Belgrade Golden Medal for the best animated film of the national competition programme goes to “MIRROR” directed by Jelena Besir.

This lovely film is done with lots of wit and poetic feelings.

7. Belgrade Golden Medal for the best short film of the national competition programme goes to “PAPER PRINCE” directed by Marko Kostic

This is some kind of fairy-tale with little girl whose charm wins over the gangster who is drawn in her magical world.

8. Belgrade Golden Medal for the best experimental film of the national competition programme goes to “FREE FALLING” directed by Vladimir Djukelic.

This film fascinates how in nucleus he describes dramatic moments of movie hero's life.

9. Belgrade Golden Medal for best non-documentary film of the international competition programme goes to “BUGS”, directed by Igor Ivanov.

This short feature film sensitivelly describe the life of a grown man through his early childish experience.

10. Belgrade Golden Medal for the best production of group of films goes to FACULTY OF DRAMATIC ARTS, Belgrade .

For the Jury
President of the Jury
Mr. Ronald Holloway