After the end of the last play, at the award-giving ceremony of the 40th Festival of Monodrama and Mime, the following decisions were made:
Gold Medal Award ‘Maja Dimitrijević’ for Best Monodrama
Slobodan Beštić ‘My Prizes’
Gold Medal Award for Mime
Yuri Costanyan ‘Soul of a Chair’
Gold Medal Award of the Audience ‘Siniša Dašić’
Vesna Stanković ‘Milunka’
‘Ljuba Moljac’ Award for Stand-up
Vladimir Cvejić ‘Brevrovizija’
Award for Ingenuity
Tina Milivojević ‘The Village’
Branka Pujić addressed the audience and called on stage the director of the festival, Borislav Balać, to welcome the audience. Next on stage was the jury for ingenuity, consisting of Shin Jung Park, choreographer, chairwoman, Dr Snežana Arnautović, Professor of Aesthetics, Maja Marjan, MA, ballet co-repetitor. They made a unanimous decision to give the Ingenuity Award to Tina Milivojević. ‘Ljuba Moljac’ Award for stand-up comedy was awarded by the son of Miodrag Antić – Ljuba Moljac and it went to Vladimir Cvejić for his stand-up act ‘Brevrovizija’. Next on stage was chairwoman of the audience jury, Nataša Hinić, who gave the Gold Medal Award of the Audience to Vesna Stanković for the play ‘Milunka’ in a unanimous vote from the jury. The jury was comprised of Nataša Hinić, economist, chairwoman, Jelena Rodić, restaurant ‘Stara kapetanija’, Stana Jarić Lazić, pensioner, Nataša Filipović, culturologist, Mihajlo Dašić, hotel ‘Skala’. In the end, host Branka Pujić called the chairwoman of the expert jury to address the audience. Ljiljana Blagojević, in the name of the expert jury of the festival, gave the Gold Medal Award for Mime to Armenian artist Yuri Costanyan for the play ‘Soul of a chair’ and the Gold Medal Award ‘Maja Dimitrijević’ for Best Monodrama to Slobodan Beštić for ‘My Prizes’. The expert jury of the festival was comprised of Ljiljana Blagojević, chairwoman of the jury, Marta Bereš and Tanja Popović. After the awards ceremony the president of the program council, Predrag Miletić, officially declared the 40th festival closed. The band Hammondeggs entertained the contestants and festival visitors at the cocktail after-party.
