Digital Cube offers EUR 20.000 award at the Sarajevo Film Festival

Digital Cube, one of the biggest post-production companies in Eastern Europe, providing complete solutions for the digital cinematography, will offer an award at the 22nd edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival (12 – 20 August). The value of the prize is EUR 20.000 for post-production image services for the winning film of the Docu Rough Cut Boutique section.

Docu Rough Cut Boutique is an intensive five-day programme exclusively focused on documentary films from Southeast Europe that are in production or post-production. The projects selected for mentorship this year are: City of The Sun (d. Rati Oneli), F**k YU (d. Marija Ratković Vidaković & Dinka Radonić), Ultra (d. Balazs Simonyi), I Am Hercules (d. Marius Iacob), In The Shadow of War (d. Reyan Tuvi). The wining project will be decided by Cristian Nicolescu, the company’s representative at the festival.

Korida (d. Siniša Vidović, Austria), a film about the bullfights in Bosnia, already nominated for the best documentary award at the Max Ophϋls Festival and selected this year in the official competition at the Sarajevo Film Festival, and Drifter (d. Gábor Hörcher), an adrenaline-filled but also touching Hungarian thriller, winner of the debut prize at the documentary film festival of Amsterdam in 2014 and a special mention at the goEast Festival in 2015 have already benefit from the company’s post-production services. Also Album, directed by Mehmet Can Mertoğlu and shoot by Marius Panduru, that had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Semaine de la Critique section, where it received the Premium France 4 Visionary award, which is selected for this year’s edition of the festival, has used the expertise of Digital Cube.

For this edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival, Romania is present there with ten movies, out of which two are in the official competition: Bogdan Mirica’s Dogs and Radu Jude’s Scarred Hearts.

Oana Vasiliu