Festival Grand Prix was awarded to "Belle Epoque", directed by Nikola Stojanović. This film received four more awards and thus became the most-awarded film at the FFS. It was made seventeen years ago, and since then it was stuck in the post-production phase. "Belle Epoque", is a story about the last days of the European era known as “Belle Epoque” - the time of dynamic events in the Balkans and the preparation of the Sarajevo assassination, between 1910 and 1914.
The awards for the Best Actor and Actress in a lead role went to Vita Mavrič starring in "Belle Epoque", and Kenedi Hasani in the Želimir Žilnik film "Kenedi Is Getting Married".
The Best Male and Female Supporting Acts are Milena Vasić Ražnjatović for the role in the film "Black Horses" by Ljubiša Samardžić and Petar Božović in "Hamlet" by Aleksandar Rajković.
The award for direction went to Sabolč Tolnai for the film "Sand Glass", while the Best Screenplay award went into the hands of Uglješa Šajtinac and Dejan Nikolaj Kraljačić for the film "Huddersfield", directed by Ivan Živković.
“Hamlet” received three more awards - Best Photography (Milad Tauk), Best Editing (Aleksandar Rajković) and Best Costume (Jelena Petrović).
Best Music Score was made by Arsen Dedić, the composer of the film "Belle Epoque". As members of the crew of the same film, "Ibis" prizes were also received by Miodrag Nikolić for Best Scenography, while Ana Adamek got the award for Best Make-up.
Best Sound Design award was received by Kaporaši Janoš for the work on "Sand Glass", thus bringing the second "Ibis" to this film.
Besides the "Ibis" awards for domestic productions, the Grand Prix within the Eurimages selection was given to the film "Trance", a coproduction of Portugal, France and Italy, directed by Theresa Villaverde. The decision was made by a jury of three members: Gorčin Stojanović, Otto Raiter and Jasmina Duraković.
The closing ceremony was accompanied by live film music, performed live on stage. Legendary cuts from the best known films of the domestic industry also gave a new context to the ceremony, which was broadcasted live on RTS. In the end, Dado Topić, came to the stage in a red "Fića" (Fiat 600), and sang the famous hit from the movie "National Class", thus closing the first edition of the Film Festival of Serbia.
Beside the official festival awards, several other prizes have been awarded as well on the press conference held at 1 o'clock on July 8th.
The Serbian section of FIPRESCI gave the Award for the engagement in the Serbian contemporary film to "The Trap" by Srdan Golubović. The jury was comprised of Nenad Dukić, Dragan Jovićević and Milorad Đokić.
The Yugoslav Branch of FIPRESCI gave the Award for the best Serbian film in general to "The Reject" by Miša Radivojević. The jury was comprised of Vladimir Crnjanski, Milan D. Špiček and Dušan Vukić.
Eventually, the magazine "Film" gave 2 more awards: Award for the best young actress to Milena Vasić Ražnjatović ("Black Horses" by Ljubiša Samardžić), and the Award for the best young actor to Milan Vasić (also "Black Horses" by Ljubiša Samardžić). The jury was comprised of Tijana Maksimović, Goran Vukčević and Nebojša Bošnjak.
The Life Achievement award was given to one of our internationally most established, legendary directors - Dušan Makavejev.