AFTER THE WAR awarded in Sibiu, Romania

After the War, a documentary film by Srđan Keča produced in Atelier Varan Belgrade, was given the SONY Student Film Award at the just closed 9th edition of Astra Film Festival in this year’s cultural capital of Europe – Sibiu, Romania.

The festival jury (Pawel Pawlikovski, Kaori Sakagami, Michael Sinclair Stewart, Michael Yorke, Colette Piault, Renate Roginas, Rada Šešić, Cristi Puiu, Horea Murgu and Cornel Mihalache) offered the following reasons:

“For the delicate way in which the filmmaker creates the world of a no-man’s land between three borders. This is a poignant and poetic cinematic vision from a director of talent at the very start of his career.”

Filmed in a small Gorani village in southern Kosovo and supported with the funds of the Embassy of France in Belgrade, European Agency for Reconstruction and the Fund for an Open Society, After the War previously won the Mediterraneo Video Festival in Italy, the Best documentary award of the Balkan Black Box Festival in Berlin, the Audience award of dokumentART in Neubrandenburg and the jury award of the Alternative Film/Video Festival in Belgrade. It took part in more than 20 international film festivals.