Patrons of the festival
 
 
 
AsterFest 2010 was funded by the European Union
 
 

 

 

 
 

 former laureates of ASTER

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Main Prizes:

GOLDEN HORSESHOE (Grand Prix) – COUNTRYSIDE 35x45 by Evgeny Solomin (Russia)

SILVER HORSESHOE – GOODBYE, HOW ARE YOU by Boris Mitic (Serbia)

BRONZE HORSESHOE – LOOK AT THE LIFE THROUGH MY EYES by Marija Dzidzeva (Macedonia/Croatia)

BEST SHORT FICTION – LOVE CHILD by Daniel Wirtberg (Sweden)

gOLDen projector ALBERT’S WINTER by Andreas Koefoed (Denmark)

Special Prizes:

BEST MOVIELAND SHORT -  CLOUD CATCHER by Miha Knific (Slovenia)

ACO ALEKSOV AWARD (Best Macedonian Author) – TOBACCO GIRL by Biljana Garvanlieva (Germany)

BEST ANIMATED SHORT – SADUJ: HIS CONFESSION by Juan Jose Surace (Spain)

SPECIAL JURY MENTION (fiction) – THE END OF THE WORLD by Jani Bojadzi (Macedonia)

SPECIAL JURY MENTION (animation) - INSIDE by Ivan Ivanovski (Macedonia)

 

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-ASTER Award for Lifetime Achievement: RANGEL VALCHANOV (1938)

-GOLDEN HORSESHOE (GRAND PRIX): THIS WAY UP by Georgi Lazarevski (France)

-SILVER HORSESHOE: INTERROGATION by Namik Kabil (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

-BRONZE HORSESHOE: RENE by Helena Trestikova (Czech Republic)

-Special Jury Mention for docs: CHILD by Aljosha Simjanovski (Macedonia)

-gOLDen Proejector Award: BERRIES FROM BROD by Erik Fusco (Netherlands)

-ACO ALEKSOV Award: AT DAYBREAK by Gjorche Stavreski (Macedonia)

-BEST SHORT: 2 BIRDS by Runar Runarson (Iceland)

-Special Jury Mention for shorts: EDEN by Vardan Tozija (Macedonia)

-MOVIELAND Award: THE BR(E)AKING POINT by Igor Toholj (Serbia)

-Special Movieland Jury Mention: HELIUM by Giuseppe Scettino (Italy/Serbia)


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BRONZE HORSESHOE – NEW ELDORADO by Tibor Kocsis
P: Flora Film International
(Hungary)

SILVER HORSESHOE – SEVDAH - THE BRIDGE THAT SURVIVED by Mira Erdevicki
P: Arcimboldo&BBC
(Bosnia and Herzegovina/United Kingdom)

GOLDEN HORSESHOE – SHUFFLE - POLITICS, BULLSHIT AND ROCK’N’ROLL by Ylber Mehmedaliu & Edon Rizvanolli
Deebeeduss&1244
(Kosovo)

SPECIAL PRIZE: gOLDen Projector – COLORS IN TIME by Stefan Saskov
P: Delta Polzer
(Macedonia)

ASTER AWARD for high achievements in auteur film –
Branko Gapo (1931, Macedonia)


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BRONZE HORSESHOE – WITH EXTREME CRUELTY by Rossen Elezov
P: B Plus
(Bulgaria)

SILVER HORSESHOE – SUGARTOWN: THE BRIDEGROOMS by Kimon Tsakiris
P: Anemon&Bi-optic&Arte/ZDF
(Greece/Germany)

GOLDEN HORSESHOE – THE GRANDMOTHERS OF REVOLUTION by Petra Seliskar
P: Petra Pan
(Slovenia/Cuba/Macedonia/Netherlands)

SPECIAL PRIZE: gOLDen Projector – A GIRL AND HER ACCORDION by Biljana Garvanlieva
P: Gebrueder Beetz
(Germany)

CRITICS Movieland AWARD – ABANDONED EDEN by Eno Milkani
P: B&G FilmPro
(Albania)

ASTER AWARD for high achievements in auteur film –
Karoly Vicsek (1941, Vojvodina; Serbia)

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The documentary film THE MOSQUITO PROBLEM by the director Andrey Paounov from Bulgaria won the GOLDEN HORSESHOE award at the fourth international film festival AsterFest that was held 27-31 May in Strumica, Macedonia.
The film HOME of Gjorche Stavreski in Macedonian-Croatian co-production won the SILVER HORSESHOE, while the BRONZE HORSESHOE went to the director Dimitar Anakiev from Slovenia who made the film SERBIAN NAILS.
The SPECIAL PRIZE gOLDen Projector was given to the film THE SINKING VILLAGE by Màrton Szirmai from Hungary.
The Romanian film WAVES by Adrian Sitaru was proclaimed as the BEST SHORT MOVIE in the Movieland programme, while the British SICK by Mike Rymer won the newly-founded award for the BEST SHORT FICTION FILM.
The winner of the Lifetime Award ASTER was director Lordan Zafranovic.
Gratitude received Frosina Naumovska, Josip Ivancic, Dimo Popov and Ilir Harxhi.
Last year's edition (27-31 May) of the festival, under the motto Boundless Film Views, screened over 60 movies from 34 countries. The festival commemorated the 90-year anniversary since the first official movie screening in Strumica.