Abdurrahman Oner Wins Belgrade 'Short Meter' Festival

Festival of Short and Documentary movies “Short Meter” ended on April 6 with awards to the best movies in international and the domestic competition programme.

The jury said that best movie was Turkish short movie Buhar (2012) that already won numerous festival awards from Turkey, Kazahastan, to Germany Italy and US in last year.

According to the explanation, the movie elements skilfully: the relation of black and white, image and sound, shown and hidden – thus giving an extraordinary depicting of the universal conflict of traditional and contemporary.

The Golden Plaque of Belgrade for the best movie of the international competition programme has been given to the socially charged movie Butter Lamp by the Chinese director Hu Wei “because of the movie’s simplicity and brilliance”.

The film witnesses a photo shoot, where a photographer takes family pictures of several Tibetans, including a large nomadic family, against landmark backgrounds: the Great Wall of China, Disneyland, Beijing’s Olympic Stadium, a Hawaiian beach etc trying to present a subtle commentary on the abusive assimilation of Tibetan culture by China and the Western world.

Chinese director Hu Wei

The best movie of the national competition programme has been given to the movie “The Bag” (Torba in Serbian) by Marko Sopic for its “witty display of simple life of misery and fairness that in spite of it all still exists” as well as for “wonderful acting and interesting aesthetics”.

“Dream Girl” by Oliver Schwartz was pronounced the best documentary at the festival as, according to jury it presents “an ode to loneliness, the metastasis of the contemporary moment in which we are isolated.”

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