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GOLDEN APPLE AWARDS FOR HALIMA’S PATH, BAGGAGE, AND ZIZI AT THE TENTH ANNUAL BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVINIAN FILM FESTIVAL (BHFF)

NEW YORK CITY, June 2013 – Halima's Path (Halimin Put), a feature film by Arsen Ostojić, Baggage, a short film by Danis Tanović, and Zizi, a documentary film by Nedžad Begović, won Golden Apple awards at the tenth annual Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF), held May 9-11 at Tribeca Cinemas in New York City.
Halima's Path (Halimin Put) won the BHFF 2013 Jury Award for Best Feature Film. Baggage won the BHFF 2013 award for Best Short Film, and Zizi won the BHFF 2013 Jury Award for Best Documentary Film. The BHFF 2013 Jury Special Mention award went to Children of Sarajevo (Djeca), a feature film by Aida Begić.
These outstanding films were selected by the official BHFF 2013 Jury, an expert panel comprising acclaimed director and screenwriter Goran Rusinović; award-winning filmmaker and humanitarian Bill Carter; and acclaimed photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Sara Terry.
Additionally, Halima's Path (Halimin Put) won the BHFF 2013 Audience Award for Best Picture.
Ostojić, who directed Halima's Path, said, "I am especially glad that the film received an award from both the audience and the jury at BHFF, the festival which may be small in size but is certainly large in spirit." He added, "The most beautiful aspect of all of this is when a film is shown before a full theater, before a public consisting of people from our parts of the world, as well as Americans. It is absolutely beautiful to see how they all react in the same manner, recognizing true human emotion as well as the story's persuasiveness."
Halima's Path tells the compelling story of a widow who is trying to salvage the remains of her son and husband who were killed years ago, in the war. In this emotional drama inspired by true events, Ostojić depicts a heart-wrenching story of motherhood and a nation struggling to find closure.
The tenth annual BHFF screened a total of 13 feature, short, and documentary films, compiled from a total of 32 submissions from 11 countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, England, Ireland, Italy, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Serbia, Slovenia, and the United States.
Other films that screened at the tenth annual BHFF include: Nebojša Šerić–Shoba's Blockhouse; Orsi Nagzpal's Roundabout (Kružni Tok); Jelena Gavrilović's Something Sweet (Nešto Slatko); Slobodan Maksimović's Thank You For Sunderland (Hvala za Sunderland); Miro Benković's Mirza Delibašić – The Legend (Mirza Delibašić – Legenda); Igor Drljača's Krivina; Miroslav Momčilović's Death of a Man in Balkans (Smrt čoveka na Balkanu); Ante Novaković's The Fix; and Pjer Žalica's The Orchestra (Orkestar).
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