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Golden Anchor Award (Special Mention) for the Best Film made in a Mediterranean Country
Haifa (IL), October 2008
Vladimir Nazor Award for the highest artistic achievements in literature, music, film, visual and applied arts, theatre, architecture and urban planning in 2007, in the Republic of Croatia, in the category Film Art is given to the Director and scriptwriter Ognjen Sviličić for his feature film ARMIN.
Zagreb (HR), May 2008
Fripesci Award for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Palm Springs (USA), 13th January 2008
Blue Star for Best Screenplay
Skopje (Rep. of Macedonia), 26st December 2007
Grand Prix Golden “Mimoza” for Best Film and Best Director
Prize of Int. Critics Jury for Best Film
Milan Zmukic” Award for Best Producer
Herceg Novi (Montenegro), 4th August 2007
Golden Arena for Best Main Male Actor and for Best Script
Octavian Critics Award for Best Film
Pula (Croatia), 21st July 2007
Young Jury Award Best Film
Paris Cinema IFF (France), 14th July 2007
Award for the Best Film
Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 7th July 2007
Award for Best Actor to Emir Hadzihafizbegovic for “a great minimalist, subtle, but extremely accurate performance. Emir Hadzihafizbogovic makes his character extremely believable and likable.”
Durban (South Africa), 1st July 2007
The Silver Dolphin for the Best Script
Festroia IFF (Portugal), 1oth June 2007
Award of the Federal Foreign Office in tribute to a competing feature film whose “artistic originality creates cultural diversity” goes to ARMIN (Croatia, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2007) by Ognjen Svilicic. The jury praised “it’s unique and creative directorial observation of hopes and illusions in relationships.”
The jury gave a honorary mention to Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, the actor playing the father in Ognjen Svilicic’s film ARMIN, for "his unique performance for creating courageous solutions in the presentation of his character“.
GoEast IFF- Wiesbaden (Germany), 3rd April 2007
NISI MASA AWARD (European Network of Young Cinema) for Best Films.
Sofia IFF (Bulgaria), 11th March 2007
We would like to mention Armin Omerovic, for his beautifully understated and touching performance in two films screened at the Festival: ARMIN, by Ognjen Svilicic and “the Melon route” by Branko Schmidt.
Belgrade (Serbia), 3rd March 2007
Where your breathing becomes light
Critics at festivals are like treasure seekers who are pleased to find individual gold nuggets. Sometimes they stumble into a dark hole, which conceals itself behind the title “... a bude hu?” (something like: it will get worse) …
…That’s why joy is all the greater when one really does have a gold nugget in one’s hand, the Croatian contribution ARMIN by Ognjen Svilicic …
… Sivilivic, who two years ago won everybody over at the Forum with “Sorry for Kung Fu”, once again manages to create the balance between strict authenticity and ironic distance. Each scene conceals a surprise, which makes the audience breathe lightly as if this father-son relationship witnessed from a distance had a liberating message – and not only for the Balkans.
Hans-Jörg Rother / FAZ, 17.02.2007
The European offerings were on the whole much more sober. (Though to be fair, just about any movie this side of “Borat” could be described as more sober than “Dasepo”, which is like a less restrained “Strangers With Candy.”) Quite a few of them were concerned with the social, economic and cultural divisions that trouble this recently, and still incompletely unified, continent.
A film from Croatia, ARMIN, directed by Ognjen Svilicic, also fits the mold of downbeat European realism, though its story of a father accompanying his son from their hometown in Bosnia to a movie audition in Zagreb is funny and warm as well as sorrowful.
A.O. Scott / New York Times, 15.02.2007
… Armin’s father’s efforts to get him a part in the film appear touching but they are also bitter: it is the rebelliousness of a desperate man. When the two of them at the end of the film discover their self-confidence and embrace for the first time, director Ognjen Svilicic wants us to see it as a political signal as well: the refusal to let one’s own biography be exploited by others.
ras. / Berliner Zeitung, 13.02.2007
A low – key Balkan film may seem like a contradiction in terms, given the ebullient energy of the cinema produced in that part of the world, but there is no better way to describe Ognjen Svilicic´s second feature ARMIN.
… Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, valiantly assisted by Armin Omerovic, strikes just the right tone. Since they are practically in every shot, they hold it together through a complicated rapport, that fluctuates during the course of the film.
Dan Fainaru / Screen International, 12.02.2007
… It is touching and sad at the same time how this simple man attempts to give his son a sense of equality. He throws money around when he goes out without noticing that he appears to be provincial. Armin looks at his father sceptically. He knows that they are in a totally different world although it used to be one country and their village is only a hundred kilometres away. Director Ognjen Svilicic, who two years ago was already a guest in the forum with his clever tragicomedy “Oprosti za Kungfu”, manages in the strong last quarter of the film to give the dynamic between father and son a decisive turn: the two overcome their distance and keep their pride. It is a convincing finish for this small, exact film, which at the same time expounds the problems of our rather cliched view of the “Balkans”.
Nadine Lange / Tagesspiegel, 11.02.2007
A mini-drama illuminated by carefully observed detail and touching moments but fraught with the frustration of an under-powered storyline, Armin just misses being a charmer. Skirting pathos in its echoes of Visconti's “Bellissima” and De Sica's “Bicycle Thief”, Croatian writer-helmer Ognjen Svilicic describes a poor Bosnian father's journey to the Croatian capital to get his epileptic son a role in a movie. Fest appreciation, especially for Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, is bound to follow and will probably be the film's greatest reward.
Deborah Young/ Variety, 10.02.2007