AGNUS DEI
a). Movie title
Original: AGNUS DEI English: AGNUS DEI Web: www.agnusdei-film.com
b). Movie genre
Feature film: Year of production: 22012 / 2013 . Length: 111’ minutes - 2316 meters
c). Date of first public projection
First screening; January 17, 2013
d). Festivals /in official selection
1. Agnus Dei has been part of more than 200 International Film Festivals across the world.
2. PRODUCTION
a) Name of film producer
Producer: Agim Sopi, Executive producer: Milazim Salihu
b) Producing company
Name: AS Film Production – Prishtina
Address: Mirovica str. # 17 – 10 000 Prishtina – Kosovo
City: Prishtina Country: Kosovo – Europe
Phone: +381 38 245 557 Fax: +381 38 244 234 E-mail: asfilmproduction@gmail.com
c) Sale company
Name: SHAMI MEDIA GROUP City: New York
Phone:
3. AUTHORS AND TECHNICIANS
a) Film director
Name: Agim Sopi
Place and date of birth: Prishtina – Kosovo (23.07.1956)
Adress: Mother Teresa str. # 21 – 10 000 Prishtina – Kosovo
Phone: +383 44 110 548 Fax: +383 38 244 238 E-mail: agimsopi@yahoo.com
AGNUS DEI
(A short synopsis)
A young man Peter, who is around thirties, lives a desperate life with his mother Maria and her husband Stojan in one village of Serbia. Peter is born in Kosova from a forbidden love between his mother Maria and the young Albanian man, but for this he is not aware Is the period of time when the relations between Serbs and Albanians are inimical, exactly is the time of the beginning of war. Peter is forced by his mother and the others to go to the war. He intends to escape the war and goes to the West. He is mobilized forcefully in one paramilitary unit in Kosova’s war. In one action prepared as a revenge, he kills his father Dini whom he never had the chance to meet. Being not able to bear the arbitrary crimes, Peter, deserts from the army. He takes Dini’s daughter Maria and together they escape to the mountains. During their dangerous trip they are followed from both sides of enemies, Serbs and Albanians. Peter and Maria fell in love. They reach to come back in Peter’s home in Serbia. As soon as they returnee home, Peter realizes that he had killed his biologic father and he had fall in love with his sister. Not being able to stand this spiritual condition he commits a suicide.
(Log Line)
I was born from the ones that I shouldn’t, I lived with those that I mustn’t and I killed the one that I shouldn’t.
(A very short synopsis) I
Based on a true story, Agnus Dei is a kind of Oedipus of our days. Peter must find his way to redemption. But the past will make itself known and fate sparingly gives mercy. Can he save himself, or even be saved at all?
(A very short synopsis) II
Peter deserts from the Kosovo war after killing his biological father and runs off with Maria. The two fall in love as they flee from both forces and Peter commits suicide when he learns Maria is half-sister.
Statement of the director
The film ‘Agnus Dei’ is putting upon the idea of myth repetition. The man as an fragile and hurtful human being, always is in a great loss. Even when he loves, when he’s got power or when he is depressed. And even in that time when he wants to escape from the evil, or when he goes straight towards it. Freighting desperately to have the power, ill mannered in action, the man in the permanent behavior fights to dominate upon his mankind, selfish as ever even than when he builds his happiness upon the pain of the others. In reality the man always behaves in his vicious circle of repetition of destiny, the Oedipus in antiquity, or Peter in now days.
Maria and Peter, mother and son, two faces of one medallion, two selfish creatures, who in continuity loves the same thing, even though one of them runs away from its destiny whereas the other goes straight towards his fate. Being conquered by love and hate, filled with a kind of demonic energy that goes beyond the reason and to resign oneself to one’s passion that is politically motivated, ethnically or ideologically. In the different social-political phases during the period of transitory or during the war time, Maria and Peter remains unchangeable. Only the shape changes. The package of life. ‘Agnus Dei’ doesn’t pretend to change anything. It only goes easily sliding, full with passion and lyrical through the wild and cruel shapes of life in the dictature of war. Being the witness of the destruction and loss. The disheveled individuality as an essential theory of life and destroyable family as on essential institution of civilization. In this manner, ‘Agnus Dei’ pretends to be transformed in one chronicle history of loss, upon the repetition of myth and the resurrection through the period of ages.
So, ‘Agnus Dei’ doesn’t attempt to change the imagination of what has happened. It pretends to tell the story of love and hate in two generations. Of all the sufferings and incapability, the willing for life even then when life appears impossible, of passion for loving and for being loved. For passion of hate and the wickedness till the annihilation. ‘Agnus Dei’ doesn’t accuse, doesn’t prejudice, doesn’t incline, doesn’t have the political attempt or neither philosophical pretending. In fact, it shows life in the permanent war, the life that has taken the dimensions of myth and which is incapable to get out of the labyrinth of providence /not divine/ but human.
A. Sopi
- Gold Prestige Award - The Prestige Film Festival - Eureka, California USA /2013/
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- Best Feature Film- Cannes Van d’Or - European Film Festival, London UK /2013/
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- Best Drama - Mexico International Film Festival - Rosario, Mexico /2013/
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- Best Feature Film - Ionian International Film Festival - Ionian, Greece /2013/
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- Best Film of the Festival - London Crystal Palace Film Festival, London UK /2013/
http://cpiff.co.uk/winners
- Special Jury Prize - California Film Festival - San Diego, USA /2013/
https://www.calfilmawards.com/awards-side/2013-winners
- Best Foreign Film - London Film Awards – London, UK /2013/
https://www.londonfilmawards.com/2013-winners
- Best Feature Film - Asia Pacific International Film Festival, Jakarta /2014/
http://www.apifa.org/winners.htm
- Platinum Winner - Asia Pacific International Film Festival, Jakarta /2014/
http://www.apifa.org/winners.htm
- Honorable Mention Award - International Film Awards Berlin - Germany /2013/
http://www.filmawardsberlin.de/
- BestForeignLanguageFilm-WinterFilmFestival, NewYork USA/2014/
http://winterfilmawards.com/wfa2014-films/agnus-dei/
- Award of Merit-The Indie Fest-La Jolla, California/2014/
http://theindiefest.com/?page_id=166
- Best International Feature-World Film Festival, Jakarta/2014/
http://www.worldfilmawards.org/winners.htm
- Best Film of the Festival - Salento International Film Festival – Lecce, Italy /2014/
http://www.salentofilmfestival.com/winner2014.htm
- Best Narrative Feature-International Film Competition Fest, KualaLumpur/2014/
http://www.internationalfilmcompetition.org/winners.htm
- Overall Best Film–Inter. Film Festival for Peace,Inspiration & Equality, Jakarta14
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- Best Feature Film- International Film Festival for PIE - Jakarta, Indonesia /2014/
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- Award of Excellence - International Film Festival for PIE, Jakarta /2014/
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- Best Film - Dharamsala Free Spirit Film Festival, Dharamsala, India /2014/
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- Platinum Award-International Movie Award–Jakarta, Indonesia/2014/
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- Best Editing - Colorado International Film Festival, Colorado Springs , USA/2014/
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- Second Prize–Feature Film-Baghdad International Film Festival–Iraqi /2014/
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- Best Feature Film - Filmmaker of the Year Film Festival – Jakarta, Indonesia /2014/
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- Platinum Award - Filmmaker of the Year Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia /2014/
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- Award of Excellence-Accolade Global Film Competition-La Jolla,USA/2014/
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- Best Feature Length Film - Back in the Box Competition - Los Angeles, USA /2014/
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- Gold Winner Feature Film - International Independent Film Award , Encino /2015/
http://www.iifilmawards.com/Gold_Award.html
- Best Editing - Mostra Internacional de Cinema da Amazônia - Manaus, BR /2015/
http://www.micafilmfestival.com/#!premios/cou2
- Award of Excellence - Canada International Film Festival - Vancouver, CA /2015/
https://www.canadafilmfestival.com/past-winners-main/2015-winners
- Best Picture Feature - Flathead Lake International Cinemafest - P. Montana, 2015
http://www.flicpolson.com/2015-awards/
- Award of Excellence - San Francisco Film Award - San Francisco, USA /2015/
http://sffilmawards.blogspot.com/2015/
- Best Drama Film – International Euro Film Festival – Marbella, Spain /2015/
http://eurofilmfestival.com/palmares-iii-edicion/
- Best Ensemble Cast - Los Angeles Independent Film Festival – LA, USA /2015/
http://www.laiffawards.com/february-2015-winners.html
- Special Jury Prize - Dea International Film Festival - Saranda, Albania /2014/
http://deafilmfest.al/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/21.pdf
- Audience Award – Prifilmfest - Prishtina, Kosova 2012
http://www.prifest.org/2012/?id=3&n=29&l=en
- Best Feature Film Director - Bare Bones International Film Festival – USA /2015/
http://www.barebonesfilmmusicfestival.org/id59.html
- Best Feature Film Director – Cannes Underground Film Festival – France /2015/
http://www.clockworkinstitute.com/#!awards-ucff/c23sh
- Cinematic Vision Award – Amsterdam Film Festival – Nederland /2015/
https://www.amsterdamfilmfestival.com/2015-winners
- Special Jury Prize – A. Neo Noir Film Festival – Los Angeles, USA /2015
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- Best Cinematography – Montreal Cine Fest – Montreal, Canada /2015/
http://www.montrealcinefest.com/#!winners-2015/c1lca
- Best Director – Montreal Cine Fest – Montreal, Canada /2015/
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- Best Feature Film – Montreal Cine Fest – Montreal, Canada /2015/
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- Best International Feature Film – Follow Your Dreams – S. D. USA /2015/
http://www.thefilmfestivalhome.com/follow-your-dreams-film-festival.html
- Main Prize - Founder’s Award – North Carolina Film Festival - USA /2015/
http://www.enoawards.org/#!/n-c-film-award
- Best Feature Screenplay - Mostra Amazonas de Cinema – Manaus, Brasil /2015/
http://www.macfestival.info/premios/
- Best Supporting Actress – Maverick Movie Festival / Awards – Los Angeles /2015/
http://www.maverickmovieawards.com/2015.html
- Best Feature Film – London Shows International Film Festival – London, UK /2015/
http://lshff.com/winsel/Winners/winnov15.php
- Best Feature Film - Legends of Hollywood Film Festival – Los Angeles, USA /2015/
http://legholl.com/winners/season-1-winners.php
- Best Director - Legends of Hollywood Film Festival – Los Angeles, USA /2015/
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- Best Main Actress - Legends of Hollywood Film Festival – Los Angeles, USA /2015/
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- Best Feature Film – London Show International Film Festival – London, UK /2015/
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- Best Foreign Feature – IFA International Film Festival – Beverly Hills, USA /2015/
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- Best Cinematography – Hollywood Sky Film Festival – Los Angeles, USA /2015/
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- Best Feature Film – Hollywood Sky Film Festival – Los Angeles, USA /2015/
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- Best Actress – Delhi International Film Festival – New Delhi , India /2015/
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- Life time Achievement Award – Toronto World Film Festival – Toronto /2016/
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- Best Special Effects – Las Vegas Galaxy Film Festival – Las Vegas, USA /2016/
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- Best Makeup - Las Vegas Galaxy Film Festival – Las Vegas, USA /2016/
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- Best Soundtrack – North Wales International Film Festival – North Wales /2016/
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- Best Director - North Wales International Film Festival – North Wales, UK /2016/
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- Best Film - North Wales International Film Festival – North Wales, UK /2016/
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- Best Feature Film – Barcelona Planet Film Festival- Barcelona, Spain /2016/
http://barcelonaplanetfilmfestival.weebly.com/january-2016.html
- Sir Edmund Hillary Award - Mountain Inter. Film Festival – Sierra Nevada /2006/
http://www.mountainfilmfestival.com/2016-winners
- Platinum Award – Fameus International Film Festival – Hollywood /2016/ http://fameusmagazine.com/blog/2016/03/07/fiff_spring2016_winners/
- Best Feature Film - Hollywood Verge Film Festival –Burbank, USA /2016/
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- Best Cinematography – Hollywood Verge Film Festival – Burbank /2016/
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- People Choice Award – Singapore World Film Festival – Singapore /2016/
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- Best Director – Los Angeles International Film Festival – LA, USA /2016/
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- Best International Film – Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland/2016/
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- Best International Film - Chautauqua Internat. Film Festival – Jamestown /2016/
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- Best Director - Lake View International Film Festival – Ludhiana, India /2016/
http://www.lviff.net/waug2016
- Awards of Recognition - Scandinavia International Film Festival – Helsinki /2016/
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- Best International Film – La Rioja International Film Festival - Logroño /2016/
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- Best Screenplay – La Rioja International Film Festival - Logroño, Spain /2016/
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- Best Editing – La Rioja International Film Festival - Logroño, Spain /2016/
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- Owerall Grand Jury Award – Hong Kong World Film Festival – Hong Kong /2016/
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- Best Feature Film – International New York Film Festival – New York, USA /2016/
http://www.inyfilmfest.com/nov-11-screenings.html
- Achievement Grand Prix – Cinema Grand Prix – Bali /2016/
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- Best Best Director – Warszawa Independent Film Festival – Warszawa /2016/
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- Best Feature Film - Warszawa Independent Film Festival – Warszawa /2016/
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- Best Feature Film – Lake View International Film Festival – Ludhiana /2016/
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- Best Editing – Indian World Film Festival – Hyderabad, India /2017/
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- Best Film of the Festival – London Cinematic Film Festival – London, UK /2017/
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- Best Feature Film – Beijing Film Festival – Beijing, China /2017/
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- Best Director – European Cinematography Awards – Warszawa, Poland /2017/
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- Best Foreign Film – Real Time International Film Festival – Lagos, Nigeria /2017/
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- Best Director – Illinois Independent Film Festival - Chicago, USA /2017/
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- Best Screenplay – Oniros Film Festival – Rome, Italy /2017/
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- Best Feature Film – Top Indie Film Awards – Los Angeles, USA /2017/
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- Best Feature Film / BST/ – Portugal International Film Fest – Porto /2017/
https://www.portugalfilmfestival.com/winners
- Best Feature Film – Gold Movie Award Goddess Nike – London, UK /2018/
https://www.goldmovieawards.com/
- Best Feature Film – Canada Independent Film Festival – Montreal, Canada /2018/
https://www.canadafilmfest.com/winners-1
- Best Cinematography – Global Motion Picture Awards – Beverly Hills, USA /2018/
https://www.globalmotionpictureawards.com/2018-winners.html
- Best Picture – Global Motion Picture Awards – Beverly Hills, USA /2018/
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- Best Feature Film – Medellin International Film Festival – Columbia /2018/
https://festmedallo.wixsite.com/festmedallo/ganadores-2018
- Best actor – Medellin International Film Festival – Medellin, Columbia /2018/
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- Best Opera Prima- Five Continents Film Festival - Lechería, Venezuela 2018
https://www.ficocc.com/ficocc-12
- Best Editing – Genre Celebration Film Festival – Tokyo, Japan 2018
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- Overall Winner - Jakarta International Film and Art Festival – Jakarta 2018 http://www.festivalsconsortium.com/jakartainternationalfilmandartfestival/winners.htm
- Award of Excellence - Jakarta International Film and Art Festival – Jakarta 2018 http://www.festivalsconsortium.com/jakartainternationalfilmandartfestival/winners.htm
- Best Feature Film – Falcon International Film Festival London UK 2018
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- Best Cinematography - Five Continents Film Festival - Lechería, 2018
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- Best Feature Film – Movie Plus Award Festival – Nagasaki, Japan 2018
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- Best Supporting Actress - Five Continents Film Festival - Lechería, 2018
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- Best Cinematography – El Festival de Largos y Cortos - Santiago de Chile 2018
https://www.ficocc.com/ficocc-12
- Best Feature Film – El Festival de y Cortos - Santiago de Chile 2018
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- Best Director - Certamen Cine Autor - Palma de Mallorca, Spain 2018
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- Best Director - MP Film Award – San Hose, USA 2019
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- Best Feature Film - MP Film Award – San Hose, USA 2019
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- Best Fiction Feature Film – Virgin Spring Cinefest – Calcutta, India 2018
https://www.vscinefest.com/golden-galaxy-awards-2018/
- Best Feature Film - San Antonio Independent Film Festival – Ecuador 2018
https://fescisa.wixsite.com/fescisa/palmares2018
- Best Director – Vancouver Filmdance Festival – Vancouver, Canada 2018
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- Special Jury Prize - /Agim Sopi/ FCIFF - Lechería, 2018
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- Special Mention Composer /Mendi Mengjiqi/ - FCIFF - Lechería, 2018
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- Special Mention Main Actor/Astrit Alihajdaraj/-FCIFF- Lechería,2018
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- Special Mention Art Designer /Afrim Gora/ - FCIFF - Lechería, 2018
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- Special Mention Production /Uran Duli/ - FCIFF - Lechería, 2018
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- Best Director - Inuendo International Film Festival –Milan, Italy 2018
https://innuendofilmfestival.com/winners2018/
- Best Feature Film – DMOIFF – Los Angeles, USA 2019
https://www.dmoffest.com/single-post/Agnus-Dei
- Best Drama Award – World Film Fair – Los Angeles, USA 2019
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- Jury Choice Award - Malta Film Festival – Malta 2019
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- People’s Choice Award - Eurovision Palermo Film Festival – Palermo, Italy 2019
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