Serbian drama “Tilva Ros” won the best film award at the 16th Sarajevo Film Festival, the Balkan region’s biggest such competition, organisers said on Saturday.

The film directed by Nikola Lezaic — a story of two teenagers’ growing pains in a dying mining town in eastern Serbia — won the Heart of Sarajevo prize at the end of the nine-day festival.

Young Serbian actor Marko Todorovic won the best actor award for his performance in the movie.

Mirela Oprisor won the best actress award for her role in the Romanian movie “Marti, Dupa Craciun” (“Tuesday, After Christmas”).