Tender Son - The Frankenstein Project by Kornél Mundruczó won the special award of the international jury, chaired by Romanian director Cristi Puiu, at the festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Mundruczó personally received the prize on Saturday evening in Sarajevo. The fourth feature film directed by the 35-year-old filmmaker is a Hungarian-German-Austrian co-production made with the support of the Hungarian Moving Pictures Public Foundation (MMKA) and produced by Proton Cinema and Filmpartners.

The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May and since it is fundamentally different to The Frankenstein Project, the play that has been directed by Mundruczó and played at the Bárka Theatre since 2007, Tender Son was added to the title.

Despite the differences, the film and the drama are both based on Mary Shelley's Romantic novel (Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus), in which Victor Frankenstein's experiments result in the creation of his own monster, whose appearance is so terrible that he leaves it to its own resources. The Sarajevo Special Jury Award includes a prize of ten thousand euros.  

Bibliothéque Pascal the latest film by Szabolcs Hajdu supported by MMKA won two awards. In addition to that of the International Confederation of Art Cinemas (CICAE), promoting the distribution of the prize-winning film by supporting 3,000 screenings within its art cinema network, the jury also honoured Szabolcs Hajdu with the Cineuropa Award of the respected Paneuropean Portal. Bibliothéque Pascal, which had also won the main prize at the Magyar Filmszemle (Hungarian Film Festival), was produced by Katapult Film and Filmpartners.

Bibliothéque Pascal divided domestic critics but nobody doubted the topicality of the story: Mona Paparu, a Romanian woman, is lured to England by people smugglers, and there pressed into prostitution. She was forced to leave her three-year-old daughter behind, whom she had been bringing up alone. Mona's excruciating journey and return home is a metaphor for the story of Eastern Europe told by a woman balancing on the verge between imagination and reality.  

The Cinelink co-production forum, organized for outstanding films produced in the region and linked to the Sarajevo festival, awarded Árpád Bogdán and Bálint Kenyeres for their film plans. Bogdán participated in the event with The Necromancer and Bálint Kenyeres with Hier. The realization of both is endorsed by the Hungarian Moving Picture Public Foundation in the form of a declaration of intent.

The large-scale Sarajevo film festival, established with the objective of presenting the best of the region and to organize a vitally important platform for film professionals, was held for the 16^th time this year.  Four films and four film plans from Hungary participated at the festival, which is a record breaking number. The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film, accompanied by the European Council's 25-thousand-euro prize money, was won by Tilva Roš (Tilva Rosh) by Nikola Ležaić.