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Safe Place, the feature debut of Croatian writer-director-star Juraj Lerotić was the big winner at the 2022 Sarajevo Film Festival, winning the Heart of Sarajevo prize for best feature film as well as best acting honors for Lerotić.
A critical favorite of the 28th Sarajevo festival, Safe Place is a devastating, and autobiographical, family drama featuring Lerotić as a man trying to save his younger, depressed brother from committing suicide.
“It’s hard to do a movie about the loss of a person close to you, but I processed it as much as possible before the shooting,” Lerotić told The Hollywood Reporter. “As an author, it fascinates me in some way that the horror that happened to me and my family is even possible. Until that event, I did not know that things could get out of control so quickly, so radically…I wrote it out of a reflex.
Safe Place, the feature debut of Croatian writer-director-star Juraj Lerotić was the big winner at the 2022 Sarajevo Film Festival, winning the Heart of Sarajevo prize for best feature film as well as best acting honors for Lerotić.
A critical favorite of the 28th Sarajevo festival, Safe Place is a devastating, and autobiographical, family drama featuring Lerotić as a man trying to save his younger, depressed brother from committing suicide.
“It’s hard to do a movie about the loss of a person close to you, but I processed it as much as possible before the shooting,” Lerotić told The Hollywood Reporter. “As an author, it fascinates me in some way that the horror that happened to me and my family is even possible. Until that event, I did not know that things could get out of control so quickly, so radically…I wrote it out of a reflex.
- 8/21/2022
- by Stjepan Hundic
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Eight films battled it out in competition at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival, but Austrian director Sebastian Meise’s jury—including French director Lucile Hadžihalilović , Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, Serbian actor Milan Marić and Israeli producer Katriel Schory—spread the love quite widely.
By far the critics’ darling, Juraj Lerotić’s powerful suicide drama Safe Place was a popular choice for the big winner, with plaudits for Berlin/Sundance title Klondike and Cannes favorite Corsage.
The winners were…
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film
Safe Place, dir: Juraj Lerotić (Croatia)
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Director
Maryina Er Gorbach, dir: Klondike (Ukraine/Turkey)
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress
Vicky Krieps, Corsage (Austria/Luxembourg/Germany/France)
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor
Juraj Lerotić, Safe Place (Croatia)
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film
Museum of the Revolution, Srđan Keča
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Documentary Film
We,...
By far the critics’ darling, Juraj Lerotić’s powerful suicide drama Safe Place was a popular choice for the big winner, with plaudits for Berlin/Sundance title Klondike and Cannes favorite Corsage.
The winners were…
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film
Safe Place, dir: Juraj Lerotić (Croatia)
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Director
Maryina Er Gorbach, dir: Klondike (Ukraine/Turkey)
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actress
Vicky Krieps, Corsage (Austria/Luxembourg/Germany/France)
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor
Juraj Lerotić, Safe Place (Croatia)
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film
Museum of the Revolution, Srđan Keča
Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Documentary Film
We,...
- 8/20/2022
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
The Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled its competition line-up for this year’s festival, with Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage and Ukrainian helmer Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s documentary ‘Liturgy Of Anti-Tank Obstacles’ selected in the feature film and documentary categories respectively.
A total of 51 films will compete for the fest’s coveted Heart Of Sarajevo awards across four competition sections: feature films, documentary, short and student film. The selection includes 20 world premieres, eight international premiers, one European premiere, 21 regional premiers and one Bosnia & Herzegovina premiere.
Additional titles featured in the main competition program this year include Aida Begić’s A Ballad, Dominik Mencej’s Riders and Ukrainian-Turkish production Klondike. In the documentary section, Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, whose film Pamfir played in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight earlier this year, will see his Liturgy Of Anti-Tank Obstacles doc have its world premiere in the section.
The program was open for films and filmmakers from Albania, Armenia, Austria,...
A total of 51 films will compete for the fest’s coveted Heart Of Sarajevo awards across four competition sections: feature films, documentary, short and student film. The selection includes 20 world premieres, eight international premiers, one European premiere, 21 regional premiers and one Bosnia & Herzegovina premiere.
Additional titles featured in the main competition program this year include Aida Begić’s A Ballad, Dominik Mencej’s Riders and Ukrainian-Turkish production Klondike. In the documentary section, Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, whose film Pamfir played in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight earlier this year, will see his Liturgy Of Anti-Tank Obstacles doc have its world premiere in the section.
The program was open for films and filmmakers from Albania, Armenia, Austria,...
- 7/21/2022
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
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