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Forthcoming edition # 5.
Prizes: Main prizes: Golden, Silver and Bronze Horseshoe. Special prize: gOLDen Projector. And an ASTER prize for lifetime achievement. We invited and receive films from several productions which submitted film-s for our forthcoming festival. It may be long or short-length film. We will present it into the programs: ASTERDOCS, BALKANS FICTION, ONE WOMAN / ONE FILM, MOVIELAND, MERRY-DIONES, HOMAGES - focused on authors from southeastern European, EU countries and abroad.
We plan that the next edition of AsterFest 2009 will officially take place in the period 27-31 May on several locations in the Macedonian town of Strumica, where several other cultural areas will be renewed, related to the climate, ancient values and constant spiritual wideness, which have provided existence to this town for more then two millenniums. The concept is the projections to take place in an ambient, outdoor (in correlation with the summer scheme), and indoor.
The promotion of new, alternative multicultural fields with our projections is one of our aims. Interactivity between the audience and film works is also an important parameter to work on in the near future.
The motto of forthcoming AsterFest is ‘south-eastern stories’.

LAUREATES:

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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)

ASTERAWARD for high achievements in auteur film –
Branko Gapo (1931-2008, 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)

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


The documentary film The Mosquito Problem by the director Andrey Paounov from Bulgaria won the Golden Horseshoe award at the last, fourth international film festival Aster Fest that was held 27-31 May 2008 in Strumica, Macedonia.

The movie 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 tribute 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.

This year's edition 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 movie screening in Strumica.

festival blog: http://asterf.blogspot.com/

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