Ivette Löcker's latest documentary, Our Time Will Come, has just been awarded the prize for best documentary film at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival: "The 'Heart of Sarajevo' award for best documentary feature goes to a film that combines the beauty and the challenges of creating togetherness, with the generosity and rigour of making films in the intimacy of lives being lived. It is a film that builds a cinematic time and space for the complexities of love and the politics of coexistence, valuing the richness that each person may bring to our common spaces." (Jury Statement)
Jury:
Blake Levin
Cíntia Gil 
Veton Nurkollari

Our heartfelt congrats to Ivette and the film team!

This year's BMWKMS', the Austrian Ministry for Culture's, Outstanding Artist Award in the Experimental Film category goes to Sasha Pirker. We quote from the jury's statement: "For over two decades, Sasha Pirker has been working at the intersection of (feminist) film, art and architectural history. High formal concentration and conceptual clarity are essential characteristics of her work. The artist combines feminist perspectives with subtle irony and negotiates spaces whose social structures are reflected in a clever and multi-layered way. Humor functions as a precise means of irritation. For Pirker, architecture is not only an object, but also a carrier of stories, attitudes and atmospheres - readable as a mirror and framework of human experience, which she subtly brings together in her films with a subtle sense of tempo, rhythm and visual composition."

We warmly congratulate Sasha - and we recommend you keep an eye out for her latest work Everyone deserves a Slice of the Pie at festivals this summer/fall.