The Belgrade International Film Festival FEST's industry section, FEST Forward, which took place from 28 February-2 March, has announced its award winners.

In the Women in Film section, co-organised by Film Center Serbia and EWA, the €4,000 award went to the Armenian project Aurora's Sunrise [+lee también:
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entrevista: Inna Sahakyan
ficha de la película] by Inna Sahakyan, best known for the 2010 documentary The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia. Her new project is an animated documentary that deals with the Armenian genocide through a story about Aurora Mardiganian, who managed to survive the massacre, only to be sold into sexual slavery. After escaping her Ottoman captors in 1917, she reached the United States and became a central figure in the American relief campaign for Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire, and even starred in various Hollywood films. The project is being produced by Yerevan-based Bars Media Documentary Film Studio.

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The selection included a total of six projects – for the full list, scroll down.

In the National Selection for Serbian projects, the €4,000 prize went to Celts [+lee también:
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A Special Mention went to the hybrid documentary Christina [+lee también:
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entrevista: Nikola Spasic
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Here is the full list of winners:

Women in Film Award
Aurora's Sunrise [+lee también:
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entrevista: Inna Sahakyan
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Production company: Bars Media Documentary Film Studio

National Selection Award
Celts [+lee también:
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entrevista: Milica Tomovic
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Production company: EED Productions 

Special Mention
Christina [+lee también:
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entrevista: Nikola Spasic
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Production company: REZON

Here is the full list of Women in Film projects: 

Aurora’s Sunrise [+lee también:
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entrevista: Inna Sahakyan
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Production company: Bars Media Documentary Film Studio 

Dirty Girls - Olga Malea (Greece)
Production company: View Master Films

How is Katia? [+lee también:
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entrevista: Christina Tynkevych
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Production company: Toy Cinema

Melissa’s Story - Asia Dér and Sara Haragonics (Hungary)
Production company: Campfilm

Snow and the Bear [+lee también:
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entrevista: Selcen Ergun
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Production company: Nefes Films 

The Myth of a Real Man - Milica Lee Filipovski (Serbia)
Production company: Dart Film & Video 

Here is the full list of National Selection projects: 

Blame on Me - Ivan Stojiljković
Production company: Sense Production 

Celts - Milica Tomović
Production company: EED Productions 

Christina - Nikola Spasić
Production company: REZON 

A Man Sings After War - Ana Otašević
Production company: DarMar Films

Roots [+lee también:
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entrevista: Tea Lukač
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Production company: NANA 143 

The Users - Ivan Ikić
Production company: Sense Production