The jury of the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF), chaired by the Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, awarded Turkish movie "A Man's Fear of God" by Ozer Kiziltan the prize for the best movie of the festival late Saturday.

The movie has already collected many awards, including the Discovery prize at the Toronto International Film Festival last year and the Fipresci award in Berlin. Turkey fielded three titles as well as two projects for the fest's CineLink co-production market. Next year the region will expand even more with the addition of Austria.

Turkish actress Saadet Isil Aksoy, from Semih Kaplanoglu's "Egg" took the award for best actress, while Sasa Petrovic, star of Srdjan Vuletic's festival opener "It's Hard to be Nice," claimed the award for best actor.

The main jury - British actor Jeremy Irons, Locarno chief Frederic Maire, Turkish actress Ozgu Namal, Swiss director Andrea Staka and ZDF/ARTE executive Meinholf Zurhorst, also awarded a special jury prize to Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska's "I Am From Titov Veles."

The documentary jury also judged regional works, awarding Bosnian production "Interrogation" top prize for its questioning of wartime memories. The Human Rights award went to Bulgarian documentary "The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories" by Andrey Paounov.

Romanian director Adrian Sitaru took best short film with "Waves."Israeli feature "The Band's Visit" by Eran Kolirin and documentary "Bil'in My Love" by Shai Carmeli-Pollak won the top two audience awards.

American actor and director Steve Buscemi (Fargo, Reservoir Dogs, Ghost World) received an honorary Heart of Sarajevo at the closing ceremony.

Many other international movie stars stood on the red carpet of the 13th SFF, including Oscar-winning French star Juliette Binoche, who introduced director Anthony Minghella's latest movie Breaking and Entering, in which Binoche plays the Bosnian mother of a troubled teen.

The biggest attention was provoked by controversial US director Michael Moore who came to Sarajevo to present his latest piece Sicko.

Sarajevo's first Talent Campus ran for six days alongside the fest, hosting 78 aspiring directors, producers and actors, drawn from 13 countries in the region. They attended lectures and workshops conducted by distinguished professionals including Alexander Payne, Steve Buscemi, Juliette Binoche, Terry George and Michael Moore.

The first SFF was held in summer 1994 in the basement of the Sarajevo Performing Arts Academy with the Bosnian premiere of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. The festival has become the most respected film festival in the region and one of the 10 biggest film festivals in Europe.