'Attenberg' wins at New Horizon

A couple of Eastern Europe's leading film fests -- Poland's eleventh New Horizon and also the 17th Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- wrapped over the past weekend. The very best award at Wroclaw's New Horizon, worth $28,000, visited Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari for "Attenberg" while Sarajevo's top prize, worth $35,000, visited Austria's Karl Markovics for "Atman." Other New Horizon honours incorporated craft creativity film recognition to Korea's Kim Ki-duk for "Arirang" and finest Polish film to Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal for "It's Pretty from the Distance." At Sarajevo, a unique jury prize of $14,000 visited Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov's "Ave." Best thesps visited Thomas Schubert for his role in "Atman" and Romanian actress Ada Condeescu on her part in Catalin Mitulescu's "Loverboy." Within the fest's progressively important industry sidebar Cinelink, films that won support incorporated a $43,000 Eurimages award for Turkish film "Yozgat Blues," directed by Mahmut Fazil Coskun. For works happening, in kind support honours of $28,000 visited Alexandra Gulea's "Child Minder" from Romania while publish production support worth $115,000 visited Turkey's Ali Aydin for "Mold." Julia Roberts received one's heart of Sarajevo award on her directorial debut "Within the Land of Bloodstream and Honey," set throughout the civil war in Bosnia. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com