Cottbus, Germany -- Serbian director Oleg Novkovic scored a hat trick at the closing ceremony Saturday of the 16th Cottbus Festival of East European Cinema as his gritty social drama "Tomorrow Morning" (Sutra Ujutru) took the main $19,000 prize for best film, the Fipresci critics nod and a new distribution support prize worth $13,000.
The film -- Serbia's official foreign language nomination for the 79th Academy Awards -- tells the story of a Serbian man who returns to Belgrade after the civil wars of the 1990s from self-imposed exile in Canada to marry a local woman.
Novkovic said it was a case of third time lucky -- the film was his third feature and it was the third time he had been to the festival.
"I'm beginning to feel as if I am part of Cottbus," he said to laughter from guests at the city's Stadthalle.
Romanian director Radu Muntean's acclaimed story...
The film -- Serbia's official foreign language nomination for the 79th Academy Awards -- tells the story of a Serbian man who returns to Belgrade after the civil wars of the 1990s from self-imposed exile in Canada to marry a local woman.
Novkovic said it was a case of third time lucky -- the film was his third feature and it was the third time he had been to the festival.
"I'm beginning to feel as if I am part of Cottbus," he said to laughter from guests at the city's Stadthalle.
Romanian director Radu Muntean's acclaimed story...
- 11/21/2006
- by By Nick Holdsworth
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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