September 17 – 18, 2021
- Children’s Jury Award for the best Animation (up to 30 minutes)
Name of the film: Sky Sun ,Tile Sun
Director: Ziba Arzhang
Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
Run time: 6:14
After a period of warfare, the tiled wall is shattered, the sun can no longer play its traditional role and darkness is everywhere… But the people join together and help to build a new sun.
- Special Prize – Life with Corona
Name of the film: The School Is Not Secondary
Director: Alberto Valtellina, Paolo Vitali
Country: Italy
Run time: 45:00
In our second year of Covid-19, the film from Italy, showed us a different way to approach teaching, an inclusive way to look at confrontation, a productive way to turn the boring into something interesting, stimulating and provocative.
- Special Prize
Name of the film: Heaven, Wheel, Earth
Director: Kosta Markovski
Country: Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
Run time: 59:00
This is the first Macedonian film about the dramatic history of the Roma, from their origins to their movement around and position in the world today. An important document. An important documentary and award winner.
- Special Prize
Name of the film: Escape From a Good Prison
Director: Erik Jasaň
Country: Slovakia
Run time: 9:22
The Golden Beggar for a Slovak Production goes to Erik Jasan director for a film about desires that perhaps will never be resolved.
- Honorable Mention
Name of the film: The Ritual
Director: Álvaro Moriano
Country: Spain
Run time: 10:00
There was quite a lot of humour and comedy around this year… a little dark, sometimes very dark, but it’s good to be able to laugh and smile when life is difficult. Spanish-style humour from Alvaro Moriano. Olé!!
- Honorable Mention
Name of the film: PescAmare
Director: Andrea Lodovichetti
Country: Italy
Run time: 1:01:08
10yrs ago, a young Italian, Andrea Lodovichetti, won a Golden Beggar with a short thriller. This year he has brought us his new documentary, PESCAMARE, made with his home-town fishing fleet in Fano…
- Honorable Mention
Name of the film: The cat next door
Director: Lisa Sallustio
Country: France
Run time: 7:42
From France, Lisa Sallustio gave us her very funny black comedy “”The cat next door ”, where being helpful to a neighbour becomes a total disaster, as you will see from this extract…
- Honorable mention
Name of the film: Love Reaches Everywhere
Director: Sean Bloomfield
Country: United States
Run time: 35:00
An Honourable Mention to Sean Bloomfield’s “Love Reaches everywhere” and we must include a special mention for Gerald Butler’s mother!
- Grand Prix Golden Beggar Award for Production Company
Name of the film: Ala Kachuu – Take and Run
Director: Maria Brendle
Country: Switzerland
Run time: 38:26
Ala Kachuu means a young girl being kidnapped into marriage in Kyrgyzstan… and that’s the title of Maria Brendle’s Golden Beggar Award-winner from Switzerland, retitled Take and Run in English.
Sezim hopes to become a full-time student but is kidnapped and forced to marry a stranger. Sezim desperately seeks a way out.
Building trust across very different cultures took Maria and her teams 2 years, producing a very fine film.
10.Grand Prix Golden Beggar Award for Local Television
Name of the film: Djurdjevdan is Yet To Come
Director: Predrag Todorović TV Centar
Country: Serbia
Run time: 39:56
Every Christian country has its own special story about St George, its own special way of celebrating St George. The people of Oparic in Serbia have ways to celebrate that will be quite different from most of us…
11.Golden Beggar Award for Young Author
Name of the film: Suburban tale
Director: Péter Goretic
Country: Hungary
Run time: 22:09
Péter Goretic from Hungary, who won the Young Author Golden Beggar, for his Suburban Tale had very strong source material to work with, basing his film on a very black comedy by Roald Dahl.
Košic, Slovakia
September 20th, 2021 Chairman of the Jury – Roger Worrod