Croatian series "The Diary of the Great Perica" (Dnevnik velikog Perice) won the Heart of Sarajevo on Monday for best comedy, awarded by the Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF).

The series, made in 2020, is a sequel to the 1970 cult classic One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away (Tko pjeva zlo ne misli) by director Kreso Golik, widely considered one of the best Croatian films of all time.

The Sarajevo Film Festival has established a new category of Heart of Sarajevo awards for TV series with the desire to promote the highest quality regional television series and their authors, actors and actresses, and to encourage their international placement.

The winners of these awards were decided by a jury of 400 film and television professionals from ex-Yugoslavia, and the best achievements were selected by online voting based on similar world annual awards of film and television academies. This year’s jury is the nucleus of the professional academy, which will make decisions on the awards in the future.