Wry Georgian Charmer ‘Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry,’ About a Late Bloomer Stumbling Into a New Life, Wins at Sarajevo Film Festival
variety.comBlackbird Blackbird Blackberry” won the top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo Award for best feature film, Friday at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
The Georgian film, in which a stoically independent woman in her late 40s experiences a gentle existential awakening during an affair with a local deliveryman, also won the best actress prize for Ekaterine Chavleishvili’s performance.
The award for best director went to Ukraine’s Philip Sotnychenko for “La Palisiada,” and the best actor prize was picked up by Serbia’s Jovan Ginić – who won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award at Cannes – for “Lost Country.” Serbian director Nemanja Vojinović’s “Bottlemen” took the documentary film award.
The awards were given by a jury headed by actor Mia Wasikowska (“Club Zero”), which included Danish-Croatian actor Zlatko Burić (“Triangle of Sadness”), Serbian-Danish actor Danica Ćurčić (“The Chestnut Man”), Museum of Modern Art Department of Film curator Josh Siegel and Croatian writer-director Juraj Lerotić, who won last year’s top prize in Sarajevo with “Safe Place.” The ceremony at Sarajevo’s historic National Theater took place beneath stormy skies, as thunder rumbled over the green hills that ring this picturesque Balkan city and arrivals did their best to strike poses on a red carpet still water-logged from evening rain showers.
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