The Ukrainian director Sergei
Loznitsa received the 2025 Eastern Star Award at the 36th
Trieste Film Festival, a recognition given each year to a cinema
personality whose contribution bridges the gap between Eastern
and Western Europe.
Loznitsa presented his latest work, 'The Invasion', in a
national premiere, out of competition, at the 36th edition of
the Trieste Film Festival, on January 21, at Politeama Rossetti,
where he was awarded the Prize. In his latest work, Loznitsa
revisited his Ukrainian chronicles by documenting the country's
fight against the Russian invasion. Shot over the course of two
years, the film depicts the lives of Ukraine's civilian
population.
"The 2025 Eastern Star Award is presented to one of
Europe's greatest filmmakers, Sergei Loznitsa, a Belarus-born
director of Ukrainian origin, now stateless, who finds his
nationality and artistic identity exclusively through cinema,
beyond geographical and cultural borders," said the festival's
artistic director Nicoletta Romeo.
The 2025 Cinema Warrior Award of the Trieste Film Festival
has been presented to Bosnian director Ado Hasanović, who
presented his documentary 'My Father's Diaries' out of
competition at the Triest Film Festival. The documentary is
based on the video diaries made by his father Bekir from August
1993. Through these, Hasanović explored his past in Srebrenica
alongside his mother Fatima, seeking to understand how his
father managed to survive the horrific genocide.
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