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Three-time Oscar-winning U.S. film-maker Oliver
Stone and British actor John Cleese were also awarded with
lifetime achievement awards during a week-long festival which
has shown 235 films from 54 countries to an audience of about
100,000.
An international jury chaired by Mexican film-maker Michel
Franco awarded "Scary Mother", a debut movie by 27-year-old
Georgian director Ana Urushadze, with the Heart of Sarajevo, the
festival's main award.
It described the film as "provocative and elegantly directed".
This was the second time a Georgian film has triumphed in
Sarajevo after "In Bloom" by directors Nana Ekvtimishvili and
Simon Gros won the main prize in 2013.
Romanian film-maker Emanuel Parvu was awarded best director for
his movie "Meda, or the Not So Bright Side of Things", and
Serban Pavlu won the best actor award for his role in the movie.
The best actress award went to Canadian actress Ornela Kapetani
for her role in "Daybreak", a debut feature by Albanian director
Gentian Koci.
The Sarajevo Film Festival, founded as an act of defiance toward
the end of the 1992-95 siege during the Bosnian war, has grown
into the largest industry platform for the region stretching
from Austria to Russia and Turkey.
(Reporting by Daria Sito-Sucic; Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)
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