XVIII-th
International Festival
of Red Cross and Health Films
June 13 - 21, 2019

XVIIIth INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF RED CROSS AND HEALTH FILMS
VARNA, BULGARIA / 13-17 JUNE 2019
AWARDS

The International Jury of the XVIIIth International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films, Varna, Bulgaria, 2019:

DOROTEYA TONCHEVA - Bulgaria, actress / President of the Jury

Members:

ARMAĞAN PEKKAYA - Film director, producer at the Turkish Red Crescent Media Bureau, Turkey

ILIAN DZHEVELEKOV - Bulgaria, film director and producer

VELISLAV PAVLOV - Bulgaria, actor

PROF. VIOLETKA TACHEVA, PhD - Bulgaria, Department of Languages Training and Communication, MU Varna

DECIDED TO AWARD THE FOLLOWING PRIZES:

GRAND PRIX
of the International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films
for the BEST FILM of the Festival

YOUR TURN / ESPERO TUA (RE)VOLTA

Brazil, 2019, 93 min., documentary

Director & screenplay: Eliza Capai

Camera: Bruno Miranda, Eliza Capai

Music: Décio 7

Production: Globo Filmes, TVa2 Produções

A brave and inspiring film recognizing the strength of the social protest.

SPECIAL AWARD OF THE JURY

THE BEGINNING IS AN END

Bulgaria, 2018, 28’, documentary

Director: Rumyana Angelakova

Screenplay: Dobrina Grachanlieva

Camera: Metodi Stoilkov

Production: Bulgarian National Television 2 – RTVC Blagoevgrad


Personal life-stories of four young people who are fighting drugs’ addiction.

BEST DIRECTOR AWARD

3100: RUN AND BECOME

USA, 2018, 79 min., documentary

Director: Sanjay Rawal

Camera: Sean Kibby

Music: Michael A. Levine

Production: Illumine


Capturing the esoteric, spiritual side of running, the film as well takes the viewers to places around the world where ancient cultures have held running sacred.

BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD

TOPRAK

France, Turkey, 2017, 11 min., live action

Director & screenplay: Onur Yagiz

Camera: Laurent Navarri

Cast: Ege Sane, Firat Çelik, Emine Meyrem, Pierre Deladonchamps

Production: Baxter FIlms, Les Films Velvet, Yuva Film


A simple, touching story, related in a skillful way

RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT BEST FILMS
RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT BEST FILM AWARD

RED CRESCENT WOMEN’S CENTER /
HILAL-I AHMER HANIMLAR MERKEZI

Turkey, 2018, 57’, documentary

Director: Biket İlhan

Screenplay: Aydan Gündüz, Funda Özdemiroğlu


The story of the foundation and the important role of Red Crescent Women Centre in Turkey

SPECIAL AWARD FOR RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT FILMS ON BEHALF OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BULGARIAN RED CROSS

EQUAL / EGAL

Romania, 2018, 22’32’’, documentary

Camera: Alexandru Truscă, Irina Simitopob, Horia

Ghimpa, Filip Scarlat

Producent: Julian Bobȋrnea

Production: Central Media of Romanian Red Cross


Red Cross Community Day Centers EGAL means Equality, Generosity, Abilities and Liberty for children and youth from the most disadvantaged areas in Romania.

HEALTH FILMS
BEST FILM AWARD

THE FACES OF LAFORA / LICA LAFORE

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2017, 88’, documentary

Director & screenplay: Denis Bojic

Camera: Sinisa Cejic, Slavisa Brankovic, Darko Sosnja

Production: RTRS


A fight for finding a cure for one of the most serious childhood diseases in the world, Lafora disease.

SPECIAL AWARD ON BEHALF OF THE RECTOR OF THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VARNA

A DIGNIFIED DEATH / 'T IS GOED ZO

Netherlands, 2018, 52’, documentary

Director, screenplay & camera: Jessevan Venrooij

Music: Tom Sikkers

Production: Film Moment


A film breaking the taboos, with heavy social mission, but also a most intimate story about friendship and letting go.

DOCUMENTARY FILMS
BEST FULL LENGTH FILM AWARD

THE INVISIBLE SWORD / LA SPADA INVISIBILE

Italy, 2016, 61 min., documentary

Director & screenplay: Massimiliano Cocozza

Camera: Mario Chemello

Music: Marco Schiavoni, Alessandro Russo, Paolo Ferrario

Production: Imago Orbis s.a.s., Massimiliano Cocozza


A documentary investigating the experience, the emotion and the processing of the images in the dreams of the visually impaired.

BEST SHORT-LENGTH FILM

LIFE BEGINS AT 90

Cyprus, 2018, 43’, documentary

Director & screenplay: Bejay Browne

Production: In Focus Films


Ray Woolley, a World War 2 veteran, is the world's oldest active scuba diver, a Guinness World Record title. In the film, at 95, he talks of his passion for diving, and his inspirational approach to life.

PECIAL AWARD

PAY 4 NEVER MORE

Brazil, 2018, 15’, documentary

Director: Leide Jacob

Screenplay: Leide Jacob, Marcelo Jacob, Cesar Sandoval

Production: Leide Jacob


Documentary film on fighting discrimination against the disabled people and their right to live full value life.

FEATURE FILM CATEGORY
BEST FULL-LENGTH FILM

BORDERS, RAINDROPS / GRANICE KIŠЕ

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, UK, Sweden, 2018, 93 min., feature

Directors & screenplay: Nikola Mijovic, Vlastimir Sudar

Camera: Milos Jacimovic

Music: Miscellaneous

Stars: Kristina Stevović, Vahidin Prelić, Robert Budak, Nedeljko Milović, Ognjen Vujović, Momo Pićurić

Production: Balkan Kino, Montenegro Max Films, Media Plus, Oskar Film


Divided borderline cannot divide people who care for each other.

BEST SHORT-LENGTH FILM AWARD

SALAM

USA, UK, 2018, 14 min., live action

Director & screenplay: Claire Fowler

Camera: Nicholas Bupp

Cast: Julie Baroody, Leslie Bibb, Hana Chamoun

Production: Shore Scripts


A female Lift driver has to navigate the night shift in NYC while waiting to hear life or death news from Syria.

SPECIAL AWARD ON BEHALF OF THE MAYOR OF VARNA

CONCERT FOR CLARINET AND ORCHESTRA / КОНЦЕРТ ЗА КЛАРИНЕТ И ОРКЕСТЪР

Bulgaria, 2018, 5 min., live action

Director: Maksim Petrov

Screenplay: Petar Zhelev

Camera: Ivan Aleksiev – Vantka, Danil Kiradzhiev

Cast: Mihail Mutafov, Lyudmil Stanev, Elvira Ivanova, Simeon Lyutakov

Production: More – Darzalas Foundation

After Lyudmil Stanev’s short story Another Brief Love Story.


This ordinary story of a quiet and irrevocable love once more proves that this is the only thing dividing us from death. And Mozart, of course.

SPECIAL DIPLOMA for the film of the Bulgarian Red Cross Youth Varna volunteers

INSPIRATION / ВДЪХНОВЕНИЕ

Bulgaria, 2019, 2‘, short

Screenplay: Velimira Simeonova, Denitsa Russeva, Boris Nachkov

Camera: Tina Manolova

Cast: Youth Emergency Team – Varna


For telling the story of their inspiration to help and serve everywhere and for everyone; the image of the Festival was enriched by their enthusiasm and charm.

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