{"id":17754,"date":"2025-09-11T18:10:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restarted.hr\/?p=17754"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:40:17","slug":"23rd-liburnia-film-festival-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restarted.hr\/en\/news\/23rd-liburnia-film-festival-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"23rd Liburnia Film Festival Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The festival of Croatian documentary film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liburniafilmfestival.com\/en\">the Liburnia Film Festival<\/a>, co-organised by Restart, raided the City of Opatija from the 26th until the 30th of August. On the final night, a 5-member jury, <strong>Olga Dimitrijevi\u0107<\/strong>, <strong>Katerina Duda<\/strong>, <strong>Daniel Bukumirovi\u0107<\/strong>, <strong>Hrvoje Osvadi\u0107<\/strong> and <strong>\u0110uro Gavran<\/strong>, handed awards to the winners, decided among 18 films in the competition. <em>The best film<\/em> of LFF 2025 is <a href=\"https:\/\/liburniafilmfestival.com\/en\/film\/peacemaker\/\">&#8220;Peacemaker&#8221;<\/a> by <strong>Ivan Ramljak<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/factum.com.hr\/\">Factum<\/a>). The same film was awarded by the audience with a very high mark of 4.85\/out of 5. <em>The Special Mention<\/em> went to <a href=\"https:\/\/liburniafilmfestival.com\/en\/film\/on-cats-and-humans\/\">&#8220;On Cats and Humans&#8221;<\/a> by <strong>Sun\u010dica Ana Veldi\u0107<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.3d2d.hr\/\">3d2d Animatori<\/a>), and an <em>award for Best Regional Film <\/em>to <a href=\"https:\/\/liburniafilmfestival.com\/en\/film\/ps\/\">&#8220;(PS)&#8221;<\/a> by <strong>Ale\u0161 Suk <\/strong>(Ukus). <em>The<\/em> <em>Best Director<\/em> is <strong>Renata Lu\u010di\u0107<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/liburniafilmfestival.com\/en\/film\/a-year-of-endless-days\/\">&#8220;A Year of Endless Days&#8221;<\/a>), <em>cinematographer<\/em> <strong>Magdalena Pti\u010dek<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/liburniafilmfestival.com\/en\/film\/field-trip\/\">&#8220;Field Trip&#8221;<\/a> by <strong>Jozo Schmuch<\/strong>),<em>\u00a0editor<\/em> <strong>Sara Gregori\u0107<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/liburniafilmfestival.com\/en\/film\/lekcije-mog-tate\/\">&#8220;My Dad&#8217;s Lesson&#8221;<\/a> by<strong> Dalija Dozet<\/strong>), and <em>sound designer<\/em> <strong>Sebastijan Borov\u010dak<\/strong>, who did the sound for his own film <a href=\"https:\/\/liburniafilmfestival.com\/en\/film\/our-garden-at-the-worlds-end\/\">&#8220;Our Garden at the World&#8217;s End&#8221;<\/a>. <em>The<\/em> <em>Critic&#8217;s Award &#8220;Dragan Rube\u0161a&#8221;<\/em> this year was decided by <strong>Jelena Pa\u0161i\u0107<\/strong>, who assigned an award to <a href=\"https:\/\/liburniafilmfestival.com\/en\/film\/my-friend-sely\/\">&#8220;My Friend Sely&#8221;<\/a> by <strong>Maja Alibegovi\u0107<\/strong>. The festival screened 33 films, out of which four, out of competition, were produced by Restart. An audience saw our films <a href=\"https:\/\/restarted.hr\/en\/film\/feature-films\/learning-to-walk-2\/\">&#8220;Learning to Walk 2&#8221;<\/a> by <strong>Jelena Novakovi\u0107<\/strong>, &#8220;Fiume o morte!&#8221; by <strong>Igor Bezinovi\u0107<\/strong> and two films made in the <a href=\"http:\/\/skola.restarted.hr\">Restart&#8217;s School of Documentary Film,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/liburniafilmfestival.com\/en\/film\/spackling\/\">&#8220;Spackling&#8221;<\/a> by <strong>Angela Stipi\u0107<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/liburniafilmfestival.com\/en\/film\/levande-bilder-moving-images\/\">&#8220;Moving Images&#8221;<\/a> by <strong>Tibor \u0110ur\u0111ev<\/strong>. Bezinovi\u0107, together with an editor, <strong>Hrvoslava Brku\u0161i\u0107,<\/strong> and archive researcher <strong>Nika Petkovi\u0107<\/strong> held a special <em>case study<\/em> about how the film was made, simultaneously translated to Croatian sign language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The festival of Croatian documentary film, the Liburnia Film Festival, co-organised by Restart, raided the City of Opatija from the 26th until the 30th of August. 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