DECISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURYDECISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURY
International Jury of the 12 th Film festival Palic 2005., held from 17 th – 23 rd July 2005., at Palic, Serbia and Montenegro was composed of the following members:
The Official Selection of the 12 th Film Festival consists of 12 feature films. The International Jury has taken the following
DECISION
The Golden Tower for the Best Film goes to:
THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU , by Cristi Puiu, Romania,
for its purist and unveiling cinematographic language.
The Silver Tower for an Outstanding Achievement goes to:
Aksel Hennie, UNO, Norway
for an extraordinary combination of acting, writing and directing skills.
The Bronze Tower for a European Discovery goes to:
ADAM AND PAUL , by Lenny Abrahamson, Ireland
for an atmospheric and emotional description of desperation.
A Special Mention goes to the authentic performance of the cast of
DAYBREAK by Bjorn Runge, Sweden
Audience Award for Official program goes to
FATELESS by Lajos Koltai, Hungary
International Critics Jury of the 12 th Film festival Palic 2005., held from 17 th – 23 rd July 2005., at Palic, Serbia and Montenegro was composed of the following members:
The “Parallels and Encounters” Selection of the 12 th Film Festival consists of 9 feature films. The International Critics Jury has taken the following
DECISION
Si&Si Tolerance Award goes to:
DEALER byBenedek Fliegauf, Hungary
For showing horrible journey into self-disclosure through the strong and visualy impressive approach.
Special Award of International Critics Jury goes to:
SUBURBS by Vinko Moederndorfer, Slovenia
Audience Award for „Parallels and Encounters“ selection goes to:
STOLEN EYES by Radoslav Spassov, Bulgaria
Palic, Subotica, 23 rd July 2005.
International Jury
MARION DÖRING
Marion Döring studied languages at the university of Mainz from 1972 - 1975 and then worked as a trainee and later editor at the daily newspapers Fuldaer Zeitung and Hessisch/Niedersächsische Allgemeine. Between 1980 and 1985 she worked as free-lance journalist in Berlin, from 1985 to 1988 as press attaché of the "750 Years Anniversary Berlin 1987" and "Berlin - European Capital of Culture 1988". She has been connected to the history of the European Film Academy since its very beginnings in 1988: first as PR manager of the European Film Awards, later as project manager for the Academy's activities and publications, since 1996 as the Academy's director and, starting in 2004, also as Executive Producer of the European Film Awards.
LABINA MITEVSKA
Her debut was in Milan Manesevski’s film Before the Rain and after it, she returned to her studies. She graduated at the European Film Collage in Ebeltoft ( Denmark) then started to study history and archaeology at the Sveti Cirilo i Metodije University in Macedonia and at the Tucson University (Arisona). In 1996 she started to co-operate with Michael Winterbottom. The films of this director Welcome to Sarajevo and I Want You brought her the title of “shooting star” at the 1998 Berlin IFF. In the same year, she became the member of the European Film Academy. She co-operated with a large number of European directors. Besides acting, she is also active as a producer (the film, Veta by Teona Strugar Mitevski had its premier at the 2001 Berlin IFF). She produced the first feature film, How Did I Kill a Saint in 2004. Presently, she is working on her new feature film, I am from Titov Veles. She is the selector of the Skopje Festival.
MIROSLAV LEKIĆ
He was born in Belgrade in 1954. He graduated film and TV directing at the Faculty of Performing Arts in Belgrade (1978). He started to work as a director and screenwriter during his second year of studies making the documentaries First Flight and Newcomers (both shoot in 1977). He made is debut in feature films in 1982 with the film Stairway to Heaven (fully made in private production).He directed six feature films (Stairway to Heaven 1982, Happened Today 1987, Better than Escape 1993, The Return of the Thief 1998, No 1999, Labyrinth 2002). He also directed films for the television (Spring in January, Kir Janja, serials Open Doors, Up and Down). His films won numerous awards.
KORNELIJE KOVAČ
He was born in 1942 in Nis. He graduated at the Music Academy in Sarajevo in 1964. His songs won numerous awards on a large number of festivals both in the country and abroad. He is one of the most successful composers of popular music. After working with the legendary Indexi he moves from Sarajevo to Belgrade and forms a new band, Korni grupa. After the band broke up, he started to co-operate with the most popular Yugoslav pop singer, Zdravko Colic. In 1968, he begins composing music for films and so far composed music for 55 films (Beetle in the Head, Breakdown, Una, To Live Like All the Others…) He was awarded Golen Arena in Pula in 1972 and 1982 for the music for films Without and Life, Death and Dreams of Filip Filipovic. He produced 4 LP with instrumental music. He also composes music for theatre and television.
PÉTER MÉSZÁROS
He was born in Székesfehérvár in 1969. In the period between 1988 and 1993 he studied literature and aesthetics at the Philological Department of the University of Arts and Sciences in Pécs. Between 1992 and 1997, he studied film directing at the Georgian Academy of Theatre and Film. In 2002, he establishes an alternative group, „café theatre”. In the same year, he won the Palme d’Or in Cannes for his short film, After Rain. This film was screened at more than fifty festivals round the world, and won numerous awards. Short films occupy a prominent place in his filmography ( 2003 „Who’s the Cat?”, 2004 „Kyrie”…). He is the author of the documentary Monasteries’ Men (2002) and a feature film, The Foolish Pomegranate Tree (1996).
International Critics Jury
JEAN ROY
He was born in 1948 in Nancy and studied at Nanterre University ( France) and UCLA ( Los Angeles). He was a film critic for the magazine Cinéma and for the weekly Révolution. Since 1984, he has also been writing film criticism for the daily L'Humanité. Roy is the author of a book on John Ford, a book on Citizen Kane, and a co-author of about ten others books. Former director of the French Federation of Film Societies, former general secretary of the French Film Critics Guild, for nineteen years was the director of the Critics' Week within the Cannes Film Festival, former vice president of FIPRESCI, former vice president of IFTC (International Film and Television Council/ Unesco). Presently, he is the vice president of the French Film Journalists Union. He is a member of the European Film Academy and teaches at several universities and film schools. He has been attending numerous festivals all over the world.
NINOS FENECK MIKELIDES
He was born on Cyprus in 1936. He is a journalist and historian of the Greek cinematography. From 1976 he worked as a film critic of the most influential Greek magazine Elefterotipija. He published several books about films, three collections of poems, a diary about the prison years and the translations of Harold Pinter’s poems. He directed a short film Helen (1963) based on two poems by the Nobel Prize winner, Yorgos Seferis. The film won the award of the critics as the best short film in Karlovy Vary and an award in Leipzig. He is one of the founders of the Greek film critics’ association P.E.K.K. For years, he was the president of the FIPRESCI Greek branch. Mikelides is the founder and director of the Athens Film Festival, The Panorama of the European Film. He is a member of the Greek Film Centre Board of Governors and member of the European Film Academy.
She was born in Maribor. She graduated at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Between 1982 and 1997 she worked at the Radio Slovenija as a journalist-expert in the desk for culture. Since 1997 she has been the editor of the cultural and since 2003 the editor of the documentary programme of the Slovene television. She is still active as a journalist, attends festivals, writes criticism and publishes articles in specialised publications about film. She is a regular associate-correspondent of Film Gajda. She was in the international jury of the festivals in Cannes, Rotterdam, Chicago, Istanbul, Cairo. From 1997 till 1998, she was member of the FIPRESCI Presidency. Between 2000 and 2002, she was the Slovene national co-ordinator of the AUDIO-VISUAL EURECA in Brussels. From 2000 till 2003 she was the director of the Slovene Film Festival in Portoroz.