Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijon gives Tribute to every single winner of main award with one Circle paste into a pavement on a Main Square next to a National Theatre of Gijon. There are 50 circles now for 50 years. One Circle is dedicated to a Serbian filmmaker and his winning film 1989 Dušan Makavejev
With much pride we announce that the opening film of Grossmann 2012, taking place from the 16th to 21st of July in Ljutomer, Slovenia, will be Serbian drama Doctor Ray and The Devils, directed by Dinko Tucaković. The film is based upon a real-life story about famous director Nicholas Ray’s stay in Belgrade in the mid-sixties. With a perfect blend of reality and fiction and with plenty of humour, Doctor Ray and the Devils offers a unique insight into the mystery which surrounds this particul...
EUROPE AROUND EUROPE
FESTIVAL OF DIRECTORS’ FILMS OF GREATER EUROPE
SEVENTH EDITION – Paris
« SOUND AND SILENCE »
The world premier of film The Mystery of Makavejev (Misterija Makavejeva) film about Dušan Makavejev directed by Dragomir Zupanc is right now, in Paris tonight
Europe Around Europe Festival in Paris at Serb Cultural Center
at 7 o clock tonight, 22nd of March 2012.
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70 FILMS IN 10 DAYS!!!
I have just returned from CINEDAYS in Skopje, Macedonia where they impressively screened 70 films in just 10 days! The film event is now 10 years old, but as of the last 2 years it has started to hold a competition section for Balkan films, as well as press conferences and Q and A series with competition film directors. So, it looks like Cinedays, Skopje is changing face. Might it become an important international event in the near future and put Skopje mo...
I have just returned from CINEDAYS in Skopje, Macedonia where they impressively screened 70 films in just 10 days! The film event is now 10 years old, but as of the last 2 years it has started to hold a competition section for Balkan films, as well as press conferences and Q and A series with competition film directors. So, it looks like Cinedays, Skopje is changing face. Might it become an important international event in the near future and put Skopje more into the light for strategic fi...
For those who didn’t see the 2011 South East European
Film Festival (SEE FEST) last May, I thought I’d recap a few of my favorite
films. Me, My Gypsy Family, and Woody
Allen was a humorous and moving 2009 documentary about the Halilović family’s move from caravans into a
permanent apartment, and the daughter Laura’s intent on being a filmmaker
rather than getting married at 18, as her mother and relatives expected. Halilović’s family had lived in caravans in Italy sin...
More about “Slovenia Begs to Differ,” a unique
retrospective of Slovenian films, 1945-present, that played in September at the
Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater. It was curated by Vera Mijojlic, artistic
director of the South East European Film Festival (SEE FEST) and Shannon
Kelley, head of public programs at UCLA’s Film and Television Archive, with
special thanks to Nerina T. Kocjancic of the Slovenian Film Center.
My second Slovenian film experience feat...
The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film:
BREATHING / ATMEN
Director: Karl Markovics
Austria
Cinema chile reception at Plage des Palmes fantastic wine from Chile, loved it!
Algirdas Ramaska the Vilnius festival director toasting with Bruno (a classic) at the estonian reception
Serguey Stanojkovski (Film Forum Zadar in Croatia)
The Audi Talent Awards
Tomaz Horvat from Grossmann
...
NY Independent Film Festival closing with A Novel Romance starring Steve Guttenberg, Shannon Elizabeth, Milena Govich
Thursday May 5th
Exploring the ups and downs of finding love, friendship and success, A Novel Romance stars Steve Guttenberg, famed for Three Men and A Baby, Shannon Elizabeth of American Pie success and TV star Milena Govich (Rescue Me/Law & Order). This new romantic comedy was selected as the official closing film of the New York Internationa...
NY Independent Film Festival closing with A Novel Romance starring Steve Guttenberg, Shannon Elizabeth, Milena Govich
Thursday May 5th
Exploring the ups and downs of finding love, friendship and success, A Novel Romance stars Steve Guttenberg, famed for Three Men and A Baby, Shannon Elizabeth of American Pie success and TV star Milena Govich (Rescue Me/Law & Order). This new romantic comedy was selected as the official closing film of the New York International Indepe...
This year's three-day event for young European producers, PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE, will present 25 talented film producers from 25 European countries. This includes Radim Procházka as the "Czech producer on the move". The event, organised by European Film Promotion, will take place during the festival in Cannes on 14 - 17 May 2011. This will be the largest number of participants in the history of this programme, which began 12 years ago.
This year Radim Procházka from R...
Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski speaks about his new film, MOTHERS (Macedonia, 2011) at the 15th Sofia Film Festival in Bulgaria
A true star of An International Film Festival FEST 2011 Milcho Manchevski presented his brand new film Mothers, film that could be seen as the continuance of previous 3 films, Dust (2001) and Bones (2007). Films where he talks about Macedonia his home country and where he talks of Macedonian contemporary family. Even if entirely different in style and form, Mothers is, by its subject related to his previous films. Most of Mancheski’s films were shot in Macedonia, written in New York and financ...
"Todor and Petru" is an official selection to ÉCU 2011. Welcome to the twisted universe of the two rappers Todor and Petru. Check out the teaser
"Todor and Petru" est une selection officielle à ÉCU 2011. Bienvenue dans le monde insolite des deux rappers, Todor and Petru.
Best Feature Film Award - Golden Alexander
(20.000 euros)
PERIFERIC (OUTBOUND)
By
BOGDAN GEORGE APETRI, Producer Alexandru Teodorescu,
Screenwriters Tudor Voican, Bogdan George Apetri – based on an idea by
Ioana Uricaru & Cristian Mungiu, Romania/Austria, 2010
Bogdan thanks the Jury for his award.
From left to right:
Ivan Ikic, Vanessa McMahon, Milan Stojanovic
Ivan and Milan, their film The Barbarians (2011) is one of the lucky winners of the 8th Balkan Script Development Fund which awards 3 development grants of 7.000 euros each (out of 10 projects):
THE BARBARIANS, writer/ director: Ivan Ikic, co-writer: Boban Jevtic, producer: Milan Stojanovic, Sense Production D.O.O – Serbia
Ivan and Milan, their film The Barbarians (2011) is one of the lucky winners of the 8th Balkan Script Development Fund which awards 3 development grants of 7.000 euros each (out of 10 projects):
THE BARBARIANS, writer/ director: Ivan Ikic, co-writer: Boban Jevtic, producer: Milan Stojanovic, Sense Production D.O.O – Serbia
