Bosnian film director Tanović to receive EU 'Prix MEDIA' at Cannes
The Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanović is the winner of the 2014 European Union 'Prix MEDIA', awarded to the best new film project eligible for support from the Creative Europe MEDIA programme . Tanović will receive the award from Androulla Vassiliou, the European Commissioner responsible for culture, during a ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Saturday 17 May (11am, Café des Palmes, Palais des Festivals).
The director shares the award with co-scriptwriter Predrag Kojovic and producer Amra Baksic Camo for What Are You Looking At?, a story he describes as being "about a city in an indefinitely prolonged post-war period, without heroes and with its values hijacked by corruption and crime".
Tanović won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001 with No Man's Land. His 2013 film, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, won the Jury Grand Prix at the Berlin Film Festival and the Silver Bear for Best Actor (Nazif Mujić).
Press release in Bosnian 
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