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LET'S CEE Film Festival
The ‘Urania’ is a 36 centimetre-high aluminium cast statuette with feminine forms, designed by the exceptional artist Tone Fink. Such figurines are awarded to the winners of the Feature Film Competition, Documentary Competition, Promising Debuts Competition and Short Film Competition, each determined by the juries. In 2017, Art Foundry Loderer became co-sponsor of the Urania figurines, which are cast at their family-run business in Feldbach.
The winner of the Feature Film Competition will receive 5,000 euros cash and production services amounting to 50,000 euros, endowed by Nu Boyana Film Studios from Bulgaria, which is one of Europe’s leading film production companies. The Danny Lerner Award, the name of the new prize, honours the late Israeli screenwriter, director, and lm producer of the same name.
The three other awards come with 1,500 euros in prize money. The prize for the best feature film debut is provided by UNIQA International. The winner in this category also receives 1,000 euros worth of services by LISTO MediaServices Cine + TV Postproduction. The prize for the best short film is sponsored by the Collecting Society of Filmmakers (VdFS).
The ‘Star of the Urania’ award is an elaborate, valuable, and unique prize awarded annually to an extraordinary person from the film industry for their lifetime achievement by the festival organisation. And since this prize was not awarded at all in 2016, this year it will be handed to two great female filmmakers of European cinematography: Kira Muratova and Márta Mészáros.
Another new addition is the Cineplexx Distribution Award amounting to 20,000 euros worth of distribution services, which aims to help one of the feature films in the competition to launch a successful cinema release with the largest cinema chain in Austria.
As in the previous years, there are two Audience Awards for the best short film and feature-length film as well, which include prize money of 1,000 euros, sponsored by Western Union International Bank. And there will be honourable mentions in all categories, decided by the juries. Last but not least, the team which produced the best short film during the Talent Academy will be honoured with 1,000 euros in prize money. In this spirit, may the best ones win!
Tone Fink was born in Vorarlberg in 1944. After his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, he was able to make a great name for himself in various artistic fields. His oeuvre as an illustrator and painter is as abundant and critically recognised as that of Tone Fink, the object and performance artist and filmmaker. His versatility and ability to readjust constantly makes Fink one of the most enduring representatives of modern Austrian art.
FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
Main Award:
Kills on Wheels
Director: Attila Till
Hungary 2016
Honorable Mentions:
The Student
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Russia 2016
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION:
Main Award:
A Mere Breath
Director: Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan
Romania 2016
Honorable Mentions:
Communion
Director: Anna Zamecka
Poland 2016
The Good Postman
Director: Tonislav Hristov
Finland, Bulgaria 2016
PROMISING DEBUTS COMPETITION:
Main Award:
Hristo
Directors: Grigor Lefterov & Todor Matsanov
Bulgaria, Italy 2016
Honorable Mentions:
Dogs
Director: Bogdan Mirică
Romania 2016
Together For Ever
Director: Lina Lužytė
Lithuania, Romania 2017
SHORT FILM COMPETITION:
Main Award:
The Buzzing of a Bumblebee
Director: Vladimir Beldian
Russia 2015
Honorable Mentions:
A New Home
Director: Žiga Virc
Slovenia 2016
Masterpiece
Director: Irina Storozhenko
Russia 2016
Shanghai, Baku
Director: Teymur Hajiyev
Azerbaijan 2016
AUDIENCE AWARD: LONG FILM IN THE COMPETITION
Train Driver's Diary
Director: Miloš Radović
Serbia, Croatia 2016
AUDIENCE AWARD: BEST SUBMITTED SHORT FILM
Undercooling
Director: Olga Kosanovic
BEST ACTRESS/ACTOR IN A COMPETITION FILM
The Croatian actress Ksenija Marinković for her performance in The Constitution.
AWARD FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM WITHIN THE LET'S CEE TALENT ACADEMY
"LET'S CEE" by Vladimir Beldian, Berin Češkić, Achmed Abdel-Salam & Martina Netíková.
STAR OF THE URANIA
Lifetime Achievement Award
Béla Tarr
Hungary
FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
Main Award:
You Carry Me
Director: Ivana Yuka
Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia 2015
Honorable Mentions:
The Fool
Director: Yury Bykov
Russia 2014
Body
Director: Małgorzata Szumowska
Poland 2015
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION:
Main Award:
The Queen of Silence
Director: Agnieszka Zwiefka
Germany/Poland 2014
Honorable Mentions:
Logbook Serbistan
Director: Želimir Žilnik
Serbia 2015
The Invisible City
Director: Viestur Kairish
Latvia 2014
PROMISING DEBUTS COMPETITION:
Main Award:
For Some Inexplicable Reason
Director: Gábor Reisz
Hungary 2014
Honorable Mentions:
Down The River
Director: Asif Rustamov
Azerbaijan 2014
Modris
Director: Juris Kursietis
Latvia, Germany, Greece 2014
SHORT FILM COMPETITION:
Main Award:
The Same Blood
Director: Mitry Semenov-Aleinikov
Belarus 2015
Honorable Mentions:
The Translator
Director: Emre Kayis
Turkey 2014
Life With Herman H. Rot
Director: Chintis Lundgren
Estonia, Croatia 2015
Bright Future My Love
Director: Marko Žunić
Serbia 2014
AUDIENCE AWARD
Aferim!
Director: Radu Jude
Romania, Bulgaria, France, Czech Republic 2015
BEST ACTRESS/ACTOR IN A COMPETITION FILM
Fatemeh Motamed-Arya for Nabat
STAR OF THE URANIA
Lifetime Achievement Award
Želimir Žilnik
Serbia
FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
Main Award:
I Won't Come Back
Director: Ilmar Raag
Russia/Estonia/Finland/Belarus/Kazakhstan 2014
Honorable Mentions:
White God
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Hungary/Germany/Sweden 2014
Monument to Michael Jackson
Director: Darko Lungulov
Serbia/Germany/Macedonia/Croatia 2014
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Main Award:
Pipeline
Director: Vitaly Mansky
Russia/Czech Republic/Germany 2013
Honorable Mentions:
Happily Ever After
Director: Tatjana Božić
Croatia/Germany 2014
Pelican in the Desert
Director: Viestur Kairish
Latvia 2014
SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Main Award - Artdeluxe Award:
The Chicken
Director: Una Gunjak
Germany/Croatia 2014
Audience Award:
8 Months
Director: Hüseyin Aydın Gürsoy
Turkey/France 2013
Honorable Mentions:
The Execution
Director: Petra Szőcs
Hungary/Romania 2014
Pandas
Director: Matúš Vizár
Slovakia/Czech Republic 2013
Kosherland
Director: Pyotr Magnus Nedov
Germany/Latvia 2013
8 Months
Director: Hüseyin Aydın Gürsoy
Turkey/France 2013
STAR OF THE URANIA
Lifetime Achievement Award
István Szabó
Hungary
FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
Main Award:
Domestic
Director: Adrian Sitaru
Romania 2012
Honorable Mentions:
Circles
Director: Srdan Golubović
Serbia | Germany | France | Slovenia | Croatia 2013
Jîn
Director: Reha Erdem
Türkei | Deutschland 2013
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Main Award:
Last Black Sea Pirates
Director: Svetoslav Stoyanov
Bulgaria 2013
Honorable Mention:
My Kith and KIn
Director: Rodion Ismailov
Azerbaijan | Russia2013
SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Main Award - Artdeluxe Award:
Distance
Director: Janno Jürgens
Estonia 2012
Audience Award:
Home
Director: Ruslan Magomadov
Russia 2012
Honorable Mention:
Stremt 89
Directors: Anda Pușcaș, Dragoș Dulea
Romania 2012
STAR OF THE URANIA
Lifetime Achievement Award
Branko Lustig
Croatia/USA
FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
Main Award:
Zenne - Dancer
Directors: Caner Alper, Mehmet Binay
Turkey 2012
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Main Award:
Argentinian Lesson
Director: Wojciech Staroń
Poland 2011
STAR OF THE URANIA
Lifetime Achievement Award
Turhan Bey
Austria/USA