This year’s edition of Star Film Fest brings 7 awards, of which the jury consisting of film critic and curator Dina Pokrajac, actor Marko Kasalo and one of last year’s SFF winners, director Martina Marasović, awarded five of them tonight, namely the Award for the best industrial film, Award for the best feature film, Award for the best documentary film, Award for the best experimental film and Award for the best animated film.
The Award for the best animated film was won by the home-made “Šuma Striborova” by author Ana Despot for its cheerful interpretation of the story of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, during which it plays with tradition and gives the original story a dark, but also humorous twist with a fantastic narrative by Dragan Despot.
Due to its exceptional ambition, noticeable effort and courage, Polish director Dawid Bodzak‘s “CROCODILE” won the Award for the best experimental film as a very successful explicitness in the depiction of violence, it uses dreamlike elements of a horror film that sometimes remind of Lynch.
For the playful film language and skillful use of collage technique and associative montage, the jury awarded the Award for the best documentary film to the film “SVE UKLJUČENO” directed by Marko Plejić. In this film miniature, life and death share the cramped space of a bulletin board and together create unexpected associations about the inhabitants of a colorful town.
The film “5/3/0” by Danilo Stanimirović won the prize for the best feature film for a strong acting performance, eerie atmosphere and suggestive direction. In this disturbing story about sexual violence that manifests itself in three scenes to culminate outside the frame, the heroine impressively embodies the internalization of patriarchal heritage and powerlessness due to the prevailing silence and despite the resistance that smolders under the face of the main actress, but to the viewer’s horror, is never realized.
In the festival program, Lidija Mojsovska‘s “Only the devil hates waters” stood out for its aesthetic consistency, integrity and extraordinary multi-layered performances, and the jury awarded it the Special Recognition Award.
The Audience awarded the Stardust Award for the best film according to the audience’s opinion to the French animated film “Paumo d’amour” by the group of authors Ian Halley, Nathan Hermouet, Luka Croisez, Laurene Vaubourdolle, Jade Van De Veire with a high rating of 4.82.
Selectors Anja Kavić and Martina Mladenović awarded the documentary film “Hands: Triptych” by Slovenian director Kaja Rakušček with the Special Star award for the best film chosen by the selectors.
The best student film and the Award The Special Star for the best student film, which also includes a cash prize as an incentive for further creation, and is awarded by our “small jury” called Stardusters, which is made up of high school students from the cities of Sisak and Petrinja, was won by the British animated film “Curiousa” by Tessa Moult-Milewska. The film was chosen because of its exceptional, different, animation that tells a story by itself.
