The best film of the 7th International Archaeological Film Festival at the Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments in Split is the French film Thus speaks Tarām-Kūbi by Vanessa Tubiana-Brun and Cécile Michel.
The Festival expert jury and remaining award-winners
The main prize of the Festival was decided by an expert jury consisting of Dora Baras, jury president, filmologist and art historian, Janko Heidl, film critic, Nikolina Uroda, museum and scientific advisor, MHAS – Split, Ante Rendić-Miočević, long-standing director of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb and long-standing president of the Croatian Archaeological Society, and Gérard Denegri, co-founder and first president of the Croatian-French association Alliance Française de Split, first honorary consul of the Republic of France in Croatia based in Split.
The second prize of the expert jury was awarded to the film Ladies and Princes of Prehistory, by Pauline Coste and Camille Gouby-Monin, while the third prize was won by The Dune People, by David Geoffroy. The prizes of the expert jury are a replica of The Croatian King, a sculpture by Vasko Lipovac, kept at the Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments. The audience award was won by the film 1001 Faces of Palmyra by Meyar Al-Roumi.
First-ever prize of the student jury
Starting this year, the new prize is that of the student jury whose members were Frane Prpa, Vicenco Pijerov, Lucija Duplančić, Rina Dubravec and Klaudia Hozjan, students of art history, archaeology and restoration-conservation at the universities of Split and Zadar. They rated The Secret of the Cosquer Cave by Marie Thiry and Stéphan Millière as the best film.
21 films screened in three days with accompanying program
In the three-day festival program, 21 films from eight countries were screened in official competition, and two lectures by distinguished experts were given: Cyrille Gouyette, art historian, curator from the Louvre, author of influential books on how classical art inspires contemporary urban art, and Paraskevi Kalamara, directress of the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens. In the accompanying program, two educational workshops for teens and tweens were held, Small School of Anatomy and Identification by Forensic Anthropology.
Photo credit: Zoran Alajbeg
