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Introducing film production incentives in Serbia 20% rebate www.fcs.rs/serbian-film-commision

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A Good Wife, the directorial debut of actress Mirjana Karanović, has marked a more than adequate start of the current season for Serbian film. Its appearance at Sundance – a hard to reach fulfillment of a dream shared by so many independent directors – in this case could be called an aberration, but only in the sense of deviating from the definition of success given by Gertrude Stein – “A nobody becomes somebody”, because Mirjana Karanović was definitely a somebody before she became a director, and not only in the rocky .

Not many national film industries can boast three films at the ofcial competition at Sundance in only five years – beginning with Circles by Srdan Golubović, continuing with The Disobedient by Mina Djukić, up to Karanović’s film. A Good Wife will, after America and Europe, soon have its Australian premiere, as a part of a project which promotes European female directors, coproduced by European Film Promotion and Sydney Film Festival, with Variety acting as the media partner.

Also in January 2016, Rotterdam IFF saw the screenings of two Serbian films: All, Still, In Orbit by Dane Komljen and Minotaur by Szabolcs Tolnai, which indicated the geometric progression of the presence of Serbian films at renowned film festivals. However, the real main event, a pinnacle of sorts, was reserved for Berlin, in February of this year.

Five films in total were screened at the Berlin Fimfestspiele – Serbian productions, minority Serbian productions and one film produced in Serbia while it was still a part of Yugoslavia. The International Film Forum – a long-running platform for promoting highly-regarded films originating in Serbia has screened two works by young authors – Humidity, by Nikola Juca, an intriguing view of a young but already tired generation of successful people, who came into their own after the wars and a hastened socio-political revolution; and Depth Two, a startling film essay by Ognjen Glavonić, about bodies gone missing in recent wars. In the Panorama selection, the Croatian film On the Other Side by Zrinko Ogresta, coproduced with Zilion Films, . Four Corners of a Circle, by Katarina Stanković, was screened as a part of German Film Perspectives, and Marble Ass, by Želimir Žilnik was a part of the Teddy Award’s 30th Anniversary programme.

When a film comes to a screen, the way in which it was made becomes a purely historical category. Creating a support system for film production is not a simple to achieve goal. The Film Center of Serbia, after several years that left a feeble financial impression, has opened all the important competitions for support of audiovisual works. The recent membership of Serbia in the Creative Europe EU programme and the recently initiated Tax Incentives system which will greatly contribute not only to film industry development, but also to the renewal of Serbian economy at large.

Miroljub Vučković Head of International Relations and Promotion Film Center Serbia

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B OOS TER ROC KETS 3 FEATURE D O C UMENTARIES Cargo / Kargo 32 The Users / Korisnici Ivan Ikić - Cinefondation - La Residence 6 Controindicazione / Controindicazione 33 Depth Two / Dubina dva 34 Producers on the Move – Milan Stojanović 7 The Distances / Daljine 35 Enkel / Enkel 36

PRODUC TION 2016 Gastarbeiter stories / Gastarbajterske priče 37 A Good Wife / Dobra žena 10 The Labudovic Files / Dosije Labudović 38 Humidity / Vlažnost 11 The Leap / Skok 39 The Rift / Procep 12 Legacy / Zaveštanje 40 .Apophenia / .Apofenija 13 The Long Road to War / Dugo putovanje u rat 41 Double trouble / Braća po babine linije 13 Occupied Cinema / Okupirani bioskop 42 Open Wound / Otvorena 13 The other Line / Druga linija 43 Signature Work / Paluba ispod terazija 13 The Other Side of Everything / Druga strana svega 44 The Tramway Hotel / Hotel dvojka 45 Wall of Death, and all that / Zid smrti, i tako to 46

POS T PRODUC TION What are we Waiting for, Grandma? / Šta čekamo, baba? 47 On The Milky Road / Na mliječnom putu 16 Why Dragan Gathered his Band / Zašto je Dragan napravio orkestar 48 Afterparty / Afterparti 17 Four passports / Četiri pasoša 48 All the Cities of the North / Svi Severni Gradovi 18 The Promise / Obećanje 49 Dev Bhoomi (Land of the Gods) / Zemlja Bogova 19 Masks / Maske 49 Ederlezi Raising 20 The Most Important Boy in the World / Najvažniji dečko na svetu 49 Name: Dobrica, Surname: Unknown / Ime: Dobrica, Prezime: Nepoznato 21 Yours Truly, Sexymaja / Voli vas vaša Sexymaja 50 Ofenders / Izgrednici 22 Out of the Woods / Kozje uši 23 Snow of the Dream / Snevani snegovi 24 M INORITY COP RODUC TIONS Train Drivers Diary / Mašinovodje 25 The Black Pin / Igla ispod praga 52 About Bugs and Heroes / O bubicama i herojima 26 Borders, Raindrops / Granice, kiše 52 Incarnation / Inkarnacija 26 On the Other Side / S one strane 53 She is Alive / Ona je živa 26 Perseverance / Istrajnost 53 Wind / Vetar 26

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W ORK IN PROGRESS Requiem for Mrs. J / Rekvijem za gospođu J. 28 T O P 20 T HEATRIC AL R ELEAS E S IN SERBIA IN 2016 60 Samurai in Autumn / Jesen samuraja 29 H OME AND THE W ORLD 61

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Milan Stojanović THE USERS SENSE Production KORISNICI [email protected] www.senseproduction.rs

Synopsis Ivan Ikić Education: graduated Film & TV CLASSROOM RASCALS, 2017, in ROBERT is a melancholic teenager, a (born in 1982, Belgrade) studied film Production at Faculty of Drama Arts financing ward (or “user”, as is the administrative and television direction at the Faculty in Belgrade (2002-2006), New York by Slobodan Skerlić term) of the Home for children and of Dramatic Arts within the University of Film Academy (2008), EAVE Producers Workshop (2014) and Berlinale Talents Classroom Rascals is a feature children’s/ youth with special needs. Robert has a Arts in Belgrade. He attended both the (2016). First laureate of Promotional prize family film set in the fictional land of tendency to lock himself in the bathroom, Berlinale Talent Campus and the Berlinale for young East European producers at Yututunia at the beginning of the 20th a situation which has resulted in cut wrists Dox Clinic in 2008. He has made several Cottbus Film Festival (2007). century. more than once. He has an accomplice in short films and documentaries, including these unsuccesful attempts at suicide - the documentary road movies Tarot Produced Barbarians (2014) by Ivan Ikić In one of his half-hearted attempts to Dragana, his faithful friend, who is very Serbia! (2010), Barbarians (2014), his which won Special Mention at Karlovy bring his people into the circle of educated much in love with him. Their relationship feature film debut, won Special Jury Prize Vary IFF, Seyfi Teoman Award at EFF European nations, the King announces a is interrupted when Marija, a new user in East of the West program at Karlovy Palic and Best Film Award (ex-aquo) at new Decree which from now on prohibits with aggressive behavior, comes to the Vary Film Festival and was screened and Crossing Europe Linz. school beatings! Teachers are shocked Home. She also falls in love with Robert, awarded at numerous film festivals. His and confused and the parents are not hiding this from Dragana, her instant- second feature film The Users is currently Currently working on a children’s sure how their children’s education will musical comedy Classroom Rascals by now continue. new-best-friend. in production. Slobodan Skerlić (full development) and Rajica, an ascetic teacher, tries to find a documentary The Forbidden Aunt by alternative ways to punish his pupils, The triangle is broken when Dragana, hurt, Bojana Novaković (post-production). eventually discovering that the solution ends communication with both of them is - simply love. and Robert’s councilor separates Robert W RITER/DIREC TOR Ivan Ikić A feature film project The Users by Ivan from Marija because of the bad influence Ikić, a part of this year’s Cinefondation La Classroom Rascals is based on the poetry she has on him. After Marija tries to stab PRODUC E R Residence, is also in production. of Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, one of the most Milan Stojanović the councilor, he transfers her to another SENSE Production popular children’s poets in this part of home. After months of separation and M: +381 66 93 99 869 Europe. E-mail: [email protected] psychical pressure he’s been under by Web: www.senseproduction.rs Co-production with Tramal Films (SLO). his councilor, Robert meets Marija again, Supported by Creative Europe - MEDIA determined to complete their plan of in 2015. cutting their wrists together.

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RUNNING TIME 120 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE JANUARY 2016 GENRE DRAMA RUNNING TIME 113 MIN FORMAT HD RELEASE DATE FEBRUARY 2016 GENRE DRAMA A GOOD WIFE HUMIDITY DOBRA ŽENA VLAŽNOST

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY PRODUC E D B Y Synopsis This and That Productions, Serbia Dart film & video, Serbia / Lemming film, A Good Wife is the debut directorial efort from the Deblokada, Bosnia & Herzegovina Netherlands / 2.35, Greece / Cinnamon Petar Đokić (Miloš Timotijević) is a handsome and successful famed actress Mirjana Karanović. It is a film about Milena Nukleus film, Croatia production, Serbia real estate developer working at a high-level position in a D IREC T E D B Y D IREC TED BY (Karanović), a faithful wife and loyal mother who, at least at Mirjana Karanović Nikola Ljuca prestigious Belgrade company. When his wife Mina (Tamara first glance, leads a perfect life in a quiet Belgrade suburb. S C REENP L A Y S C REENP LAY Krcunović) mysteriously disappears, Petar begins behaving Mirjana Karanović, Stevan Filipović Staša Bajac, Nikola Ljuca This ostensibly idyllic situation will burst like a soap bubble D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP H Y : D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY erratically. Instead of reporting the disappearance to the when she chances on an old VHS tape and realizes that her Erol Zubčević Maja Radošević police, he decides to hide it at any cost. Days without Mina M U S I C M U S I C husband Valdo (Boris Isaković), the man she has spent three Dejan Pejović Janja Lončar become filled with lies, insomnia and wild partying in Belgrade decades with, is responsible for horrendous war crimes. PRODUC TION DES I G N E R PRODUC TION DES IGNER clubs. As time passes, a family celebration where the married Nenad Marković Zorana Petrov This discovery comes at a really bad time, just when Milena COS TUMES COS TUMES couple has to appear together is fast approaching and Boris Čakširan has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Torn between love Dejana Vučićević Petar’s behavior gets more chaotic and destructive. While E DITOR E DITORS for her family and the heavy emotional burden of Vlada’s Lazar Predojev Jelena Rosić, Nataša Damnjanović, Vladimir clouds gather over Belgrade, signaling heavy rains, Petar CAS T terrible secret, Milena will have to make the hardest and most Vidić will have to face questions that can decide his fate and life. Mirjana Karanović, Boris Isaković, Hristina CAS T personal decision in her life. Popović, Jasna Đuričić, Vlado Keroševoć, Miloš Timotijević, Tamara Krcunović, Dragan Where and why did Mina disappear? Ksenija Marinković, Bojan Navojac Bakema, Slaven Došlo

Mirjana Karanović C ONTAC T CONTAC T Nikola Ljuca This and That Productions Dart Film & Video A Serbian actress known for many important roles in former Južni bulevar 126 Niška 6 / 7 Born in 1985 in Belgrade. He studied Film Directing at Faculty Yugoslav films. She made her screen debut in the 1980 film 11000 Belgrade, Serbia 11000 Belgrade, Serbia of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. His short films Thursday, Mob: +381 64 1612 313 Tel: + 381 11 3449 225 Petria’s Wreath by Srdjan Karanović. World fame came with [email protected] Fax: + 381 11 2435 209 Sergeant and Scenes With Women were screened at many the role of the mother in ’s When Father Was www.thisandthat.rs vladimir@dartfilm.com international film festivals, winning several awards. He was www.dartfilm.com Away On Business. She has worked with many prominent W ORLD S ALES nominated for the Robert Bosch Stiftung Co-production Yugoslav and Serbian directors. A Good Wife is Mirjana’s Films Boutique W ORLD S ALES Prize, he participated at the Sarajevo Talents, Berlinale Köpenicker Strasse 184 Soul Food Films directing debut. D - 10997 Berlin, Germany Pariske komune 13 Talents and Locarno Filmmakers Academy and he was a Tel: + 49 30 69 53 78 50 11000 Belgrade, Serbia jury member at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Cinema City and info@filmsboutique.com Phone: +381 11 26 72 004 valeska@filmsboutique.com Fax: +381 11 26 94 152 Pristina Film Festival. Humidity is his first feature film. www.filmsboutique.com mogorovic@soulfoodfilms.com www.soulfoodfilms.com

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183’, drama, completed 72’ / drama / completed

Apophenia is a saga about the powerlessness An intense friendship between Sara and Alisa of modern man to stand up to himself while comes to a strange and abrupt ending after Sara constantly sacrificing himself for himself, in a opens up about her urges beyond pure physical society where all ideologies, organized religions desire. and lifestyles have been defeated by bling egoism. D IREC TED BY Momir Milošević D IREC TED BY Marin Malešević CONTAC T Cinnamon Production, [email protected] CONTAC T Pankerica, goran.fi[email protected] TK Films Limited, [email protected]

RUNNING TIME 90 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE MARCH 2016 GENRE SCI-FI, HORROR THE RIFT PROCEP

Synopsis D IREC TED BY Dejan Zečević The Rift is an SF thriller – an exciting story about a joint force S C REENP LAY of US and Serbian agents, tasked with revealing the fate of Milan Konjević, Barry Keating DOUBLE TROUBLE SIGNATURE WORK the military satellite that fell somewhere in eastern Serbia. D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP H Y Dimitrije Joković In search for the lost astronaut, the agents come to a village M U S I C BRAĆA PO BABINE PALUBA ISPOD on the edge of the woods. After finding the impact location Nikola Jeremić PRODUC TION DES IGNER TERAZIJA and find no wreckage there, what seemed a routine mission Zorana Petrov LINIJE suddenly turns into a struggle for survival. If they are to COS TUMES 76’, drama, completed Jelena Đorđević 93’, comedy, completed survive the night, the agents John Smith (Ken Foree) and Liz E DITOR Waid (Katarina Čas) will have to face forces not of this world Aleksandar Popović Inspired by Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945), and solve a mystery that threatens to destroy not only them, CAS T A letter arrives to both main characters, Radašin Ken Foree, Monte Markham, Katarina Čas, Signature Work shines a light on Belgrade bit the entire humanity. and Milašin, two cousins living in the same village Dragan Mićanović, Denis Murić, Sofija underground and the world of modern art through Vukićević, Miroljub Lešo who are constantly bickering for no real reason. a noir prism. Ideological elements serve to frame Dejan Zečević The letter is an invitation to each of them to WORLD S ALES the actions of amoral protagonists, whose only Born in Belgrade in 1972. Received his BA in Film and TV Jinga Films Ltd. participate in a new reality TV show. 22 Carnaby Street aim is to live another day. directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. W1F 7DB, UK. Directed four feature films, one documentary, several short Tel: 44 20 7287 0050 D IREC TED BY Mob: 44 (0)7813 130 245 D IREC TED BY films, a story in an omnibus, a TV movie and several TV series. Radoš Bajić www.jingafilms.com Dejan Vlaisavljević Nikt His films were screened at several international festivals, and CONTAC T CONTAC T in all domestic festivals, and won more than fifty awards. Contrast Studios, [email protected] Remaining Light, [email protected] Filmography: Buy Me An Elliott (1998), TT Syndrome (2002), A Little Night Music (2002), The Fourth Man (2007), The Enemy (2011).

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RUNNING TIME TBC FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE FALL, 2016 GENRE DRAMA RUNNING TIME 101 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE SEPTEMBER 2016 GENRE COMEDY ON THE MILKY ROAD AFTERPARTY NA MLIJEČNOM PUTU AFTERPARTI

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Synopsis , Alex Garcia and Lucas Ljuti Bicikl, Serbia / Mashina & Zec, Serbia Marko, nicknamed Mare, is young lovable boy, who lives in On The Milky Road unfolds as a three-part narrative Akoskin D IREC TED BY D IREC TED BY Luka Bursać the projects with his parents and works in a nightclub as a recounting three periods in the life of a man (Kusturica): his Emir Kusturica S C REENP LAY time as a lucky milkman during the war, perilous escapades S C REENP LAY bartender. He seems like a typical urban Belgrade boy who Emir Kusturica Luka Bursać and blossoming romance with the woman he loves (Bellucci), D IREC TORS OF P HOTOGRAP HY D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY loves parties, fun, hanging around with his friends and girls. and his later life as a monk, looking back over the tumultuous Goran Volarevic, Martin Šec Dušan Grubin But, unlike his friends, Marko has one ambition - to become M U S I C M U S I C past - both his and his country’s. Two-times Palme D’Or Stribor Kusturica Aki Species an actor. Tanks to Tijana, who is a make up artist (and his PRODUC TION DES IGNER PRODUC TION DES IGNERS winner Emir Kusturica directs and stars in this story of love Goran Joksimović occasional girlfriend) Marko is always up-to date with all Katarina Plavša, Sonja Nenadić and war, rich in emotion, comedy and adventure. COS TUMES movie and TV show castings. He gets small roles sometimes, Nebojsa Lipanović COS TUMES E DITOR Dijana Damnjanović, Julija Đeković but his goal is to prepare for the casting for the popular TV Svetolik Mića Zajc E DITOR show Game of Thrones, which is to be filmed in the region. CAS T Đorđe Stanković Emir Kusturica Monica Bellucci, Emir Kusturica CAS T Soon he gets the invitation for casting, which will change his

Rade Ćosić, Nikola Šurbanović, Jana Emir Kusturica is an acclaimed Serbian filmmaker & musician. N ORTH A MERIC A S ALES life. Peter Van Steemburg Milosavljević, Vladimir Gvojić, Dragan His feature debut Do You Remember Dolly Bell? won the ICM Partners Jovanović, Slobodan Beštić, Lidija Vukićević Golden Lion at the 1981 Venice Film Festival. His second 10250 Constellation Blvd, Luka Bursać 9th Floor Los Angeles, CONTAC T film, When Father Was Away on Business (1985), earned CA 90067 First serbian Ljuti bicikl Born in 1990 in Belgrade. Obtained his degree as a film and Ofc: 310.550.4396 Trgovačka 22 television director from Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade. him the Palme d’Or at Cannes and was nominated for the [email protected] 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Best Foreign Film. He won his second Palme d’Or for black His student films were screened at international film festivals W ORLD S ALES Mob: +381 63 280 756 comedy Underground in 1995. In 1998 he won the Silver Lion Wild Bunch Paris, [email protected] in Belgrade, Herceg Novi, Vrnjačka Banja, Trieste, Timisoara, at Venice for Best Direction with Black Cat, White Cat. His 65 rue de Dunkerque, www.mashinaizec.com Banja Luka and Rome. His documentary Three caused great 75009 Paris, latest film is On The Milky Road, in which he stars alongside France controversy and media attention. Bursać’s diploma film

Monica Bellucci. Carole BARATON Blackness was screened at most national film festivals and its [email protected] Belgrade premiere was at FEST 2015. Direct Line: +33 1 4313 2135

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RUNNING TIME 97 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE SUMMER 2016 GENRE DRAMA RUNNING TIME 93 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE SEPTEMBER 2016 (MASTERS, TORONTO FF) GENRE DRAMA ALL THE CITIES OF THE NORTH DEV BHOOMI (LAND OF THE GODS) SVI SEVERNI GRADOVI ZEMLJA BOGOVA

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Synopsis Dart Film & Video, Serbia Nova Film, Serbia It’s winter by the seaside. Abandoned bungalows, lost After a long exile, Rahul returns to his village in the Himalaya. SCCA/pro.ba, BiH Zepter International, Monaco donkeys, rotten fruit and a single room with a blue tent Code Blue, Montenegro Gorvic Pictures, India It causes commotion amongst the villagers, who have never inside. Two men, Boris and Boban, drift through all this, in a D IREC TED BY D IREC TED BY forgiven him for his sins from the past. Rahul has to face the Dane Komljen Goran Paskaljević relationship which bears no name. The persistent rhythm of S C REENP LAY S C REENP LAY isolated world full of prejudice, in which women have no right their everyday routine is disturbed when a third man, Dane, Dane Komljen Goran Paskaljević in collaboration with to choose their own destiny. D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY Victor Banerjee the director of the film, settles into the same abandoned Ivan Marković D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY bungalow complex. With his arrival, the outside world and PRODUC TION DES IGNER Milan Spasić Goran Paskaljević Magdalena Vlajić COS TUMES the making of the film itself come into view. Gestures are COS TUMES Neeti Jain Studied at the well-known Prague school of cinema (FAMU). rehearsed and repeated. The film crew shares the space with Magdalena Vlajić E DITOR He has made 30 documentaries and 17 feature films, shown Boban, Boris and Dane. The film is taken to a point where it E DITORS Kristina Pozenel and acclaimed at the most prestigious international film Dane Komljen, Nataša Damnjanović CAS T could be made of anything, any moment, any image. CAS T Victor Banerjee, Geetanjali Thapa, Uttara festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, San Sebastian...). A Boris Isaković, Boban Kaluđer, Dane Komljen Baokar, Raj Zutshi, V.K. Sharma, Avijit Dutt full retrospective of his work was presented in 2008 at The

Dane Komljen CONTAC T CONTAC T Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), and in July 2010 Born in 1986. Graduated in film directing at the Faculty of Dart Film & Video Nova Film at the along with the publication of a Niška 6, Gospodar Jevremova 46 a Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. At the time of study, he has shown 11000 Belgrade 11000 Belgrade, Serbia monograph in English about his work. In April this year, the interest in new, experimental and non-narrative form. He Mob: + 381 65 3278 000 Tel: +381 63 303 306 Austrian Film Archive presented a retrospective of 16 of his vladimir@dartfilm.com [email protected] made several short and experimental films that are screened feature films in Vienna. www.dartfilm.com and won awards at the most prestigious European festivals - in Cannes, Rotterdam, Locarno, Marseilles. His latest short film, Our Body, was nominated for the 2015 European Film Awards. He has just finished master studies in the contemporary art in France and edited his first feature film All The Cities of the North.

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RUNNING TIME 90 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE TBA GENRE SCI-FI EROTIC DRAMA RUNNING TIME 100 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE 2016 GENRE FAIRY TALES FOR ADULTS EDERLEZI RISING NAME: DOBRICA, SURNAME: UNKNOWN EDERLEZI RISING IME: DOBRICA, PREZIME: NEPOZNATO

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Synopsis Mir Media Group, Serbia Logos Film, Serbia An exciting science fiction story set in near future about the This is a story, actually a fairytale for adults, that expresses D IREC TED BY D IREC TED BY pioneering space mission to Alpha Centauri undertaken by Lazar Bodroža Srdja Penezić how life could be beautiful, if only mankind would go out and the multinational Ederlezi Corporation. S C REENP L A Y S C REENP LAY enjoy it for a change. Dimitrije Vojnov Srdja Penezić i Slavko Štimac Ederlezi recruits Milutin, a Slav cosmonaut trained in the D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP H Y D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY Life has not been kind in any way towards Dobrica. As an newly reformed futuristic Soviet Union and accompanies Kosta Glušica Radan Popović infant he was abandoned by his parents and left by the M U S I C M U S I C him with Nimani, a female android programmed to fulfill Nemanja Mosurović Aleksander Lokner wayside. After a few happy years, spent surrounded by whatever Milutin desires. Bored by an endless succession PRODUC TION DES IGNER PRODUC TION DES IGNER people who truly loved him, the “system” takes notice of him Aljoša Spajić Vesna Golubović of diferent sexual games and pre-programmed behaviors, COS TUMES COS TUMES and the next twenty-eight years of his life are spent mostly Milutin decides to reboot Nimani and make her work only Senka Kljakić Marija Marković in orphanages or in prison. Still, maybe simply because early based on custom settings generated from experiences with E DITOR E DITOR in life he experienced truly unconditional love, or simply Milena Z. Petrović Srdja Penezić him. CAS T CAS T because it is his nature, he chooses only to see goodness in Milutin uses the spacecraft supercomputer to reset Nimani Stoya, Sebastian Cavazza Slavko Štimac, Hana Selimović, Helena people. Actually, it’s not so much that he chooses it as that Jakovljivić, Mirjana Joković, Bogdan Diklić, and turns her to something closest to person that an android CONTAC T Marko Baćović, he simply can’t do it otherwise. He is who he is and navigates can ever become. Mir Media Group through life while being completely filled with love. Mitrovićev prolaz 3a CONTAC T 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Logos Film Lazar Bodroža Tel: +381 63 379 629 Maksima Gorkog 95 Srdja Penezić [email protected] 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Born in 1983. Graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts Graduated Film Directing at Faculty of Dramatic Arts in ederlezi.org Tel: +381 11 6450 557 in Belgrade. Director of the interactive movie Über Life and [email protected] Belgrade. Directed several short live-action and documentary short movie The Mountain Wreath. films. After completing his cult novel The Spirit of Balkania, continued his career in New York and Los Angeles. As a partner in LA based Ideate Films, he has worked as a writer/producer/director on a number of brand films and commercials. Using the screen name D. Jud Jones, Penezić wrote, co-produced and co-directed the animated feature Film Noir (2007).

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RUNNING TIME 100 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE 2017 GENRE DRAMA RUNNING TIME 120 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE OCTOBER 2016 GENRE COMEDY OFFENDERS OUT OF THE WOODS IZGREDNICI KOZJE UŠI

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Synopsis Biberche, Serbia Luks film, Serbia Three young people are systematically committing acts of This is a black comedy about a particular woman in a particular D IREC TED BY Gustav film, Slovenia vandalism in diferent parts of Belgrade. Soon we discover Dejan Zečević D IREC TED BY country. Stojanka (62) lives in a small village in Banat, on the that the trio is filming, watching, these locations around the S C REENP LAY Marko Kostić edge of the Deliblato Sands. As with all her compatriots, Djordje Milosavljević S C REENP LAY clock, trying to prove a bizarre “sociological equation”, as a D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY Vladislava Vojnović her circumstances are wretched – a daily struggle to scrape part of their thesis in the Master’s program at the Faculty of Miladin Čolaković D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY out an existence and an even worse struggle to make sense PRODUC TION DES IGNER Miloš Spasojević Philosophy. Zorana Petrov M U S I C of such a life. At one point in her past, Stojanka – like the The denouement of the story reveals that students failed to COS TUMES Aleksandar Habić country in which she lives – stood at a crossroads and took Lana Pavlović PRODUC TION DES IGNER maintain the required distance from their own project. He the wrong turn. Today, determined not to cry over spilt E DITOR Dejan Anđelković draw them in. Lazar Predojev COS TUMES milk, she has survived, but has been unable to find any real CAS T Boris Čakširan happiness. Throughout the marching minutiae of daily life, Radovan Vujović, Marta Bjelica, Mladen E DITOR Dejan Zečević Sovilj, Svetozar Cvetković, , Almir Kenović which somehow always seem to defy expectations, Stojanka Born in 1972 in Belgrade. Graduated film and television Boris Isaković CAS T uses every opportunity she can to make clear decisions and Gorica Popović, Milica Spasojević, Slobodan directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He CONTAC T Ćustić, Pavle Marković, Nikola Kojo, Goran follow them through in her own eccentric way. Sometimes made eight feature films up to now, one documentary, Biberche Radaković, Nikola Maričić she succeeds and sometimes she fails. Brace Jerkovic 80 several short films, a segment in a composite film, television 11000 Belgrade, Serbia CONTAC T film and several very famous TV series in Serbia, RTS1 public Tel: +381 69 8700007 Luks film Marko Kostić [email protected] Vasilija Vasilijevića 18, and national boradcaster. He has participated in many Born in Belgrade in 1973. Graduated film and television www.biberche.com 11080, Zemun, Serbia international, regional and domestic film festivals. His films Mob: +381 64 123 1211 directing from the Belgrade University Faculty of Arts and have received more than 100 prizes. luksfi[email protected] has since worked extensively as a director, screenwriter and www.luksfilm.com producer, winning many awards both in Serbia and abroad. His first feature film, The Paper Prince has been screened at more than seventy international festivals and won a total of thirteen awards.

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Market screening Monday, May 16th, 15:30 - Gray 2

RUNNING TIME 113 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE MARCH 2017 GENRE DRAMA RUNNING TIME 85 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE AUTUMN 2016 GENRE DRAMA, COMEDY SNOW DREAMS TRAIN DRIVER’S DIARY SNEVANI SNEGOVI DNEVNIK MAŠINOVOĐE

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Synopsis Arbos, Serbia Zillion film, Serbia It is 1680, the age of snow dreams, in the middle of desolate During his professional career, every train driver inadvertently Lumiere Kft, Hungary Inter film, Croatia Bačka region, after the Turkish invasion, there is not a soul D IREC TED BY D IREC TED BY kills 20 to 30 people. Their victims are usually suicides, in sight a day’s walk in every direction. Among the ruins of Zoltan Bicskei Miloš Radović careless, drunken, or just absent-minded people. This is a S C REENP LAY S C REENP LAY an abandoned monumental church without a roof, three Zoltan Bicskei Miloš Radović tragic comedy about innocent murderers and their lives. characters appear: Longman, Lame and One-eye, all recently D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY Jovan Milinov Dušan Joksimović escaped from Turkish slavery, in search for their long- M U S I C PRODUC TION DES I G N E R Miloš Radović lost home. They encounter the Ancient, a keeper of old Szilard Mezei, György Szabados, Mihaly Aljoša Spajić Born in 1955. Graduated Film and Television directing at Dresz, Miklos Lukacs, Arpad Bakos COS TUMES knowledge, as well as his daughter, who distribute seeds in PRODUC TION DES IGNER Dragica Laušević Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. In 1986 he specialized order to save the community from scattering, but to no avail. Saša Senković E DITOR TV directing at “NHK - Communications Training Institute”, Three visions of the Acolyte interrupt the flow of this “story COS TUMES Djordje Marković Tokyo, Japan. He has won many domestic and international Ibolya Morvai CAS T of souls”: king Matthias, king Ladislaus and king Attila the E DITOR , Petar Korać, Mirjana awards (60 in total, Cannes, New York, Berlin), worked at Scourge of God, all captives of their own guilty consciences. Aleksandar Komnenović Karanović, Mladen Nelević, Jasna Djuričić, theaters Atelje 212 and Zvezdara Theater as a writer/director CAS T Danica Ristovski Nandor Szilagy, Fridyes Kovacs, Miklos B. CONTAC T and directed more than 200 hours of TV programs in Serbia. Zoltan Bicskei Szekely, Anita Tot, György Barko, Laszlo Zillion film Csendes, Janosz Merc Gundulićev venac 42 Born in 1958 in Kanjiža, where he finished elementary school. 11000 Belgrade, Serbia He graduated from Middle School of Visual Arts in Budapest. CONTAC T Tel: +381 11 303 5545 Arbos Fax: +381 11 303 5546 From 1976 to 1992 he lived and worked in Novi Sad. He is Pavla Papa 14 [email protected] a member of “Uj Symposion” editorial staf and one of the 21000 Novi Sad www.zillionfilm.com main associates of Novi Sad Jazz Days. He has been making Tel: +381 21 472 5408 [email protected] films from 1973 and is a member of the Hungarian Academy www.arbos.rs of Arts.

26 27 FILM CENTER SERBIA | WWW.FCS.RS ABOUT BUGS AND SHE IS ALIVE HEROES ONA JE ŽIVA

O BUBICAMA I 88’ / drama, horror / completed HEROJIMA Eros overcomes death.

90’ / love drama / completed D IREC TED BY Strahinja Mlađenović

In a world full of fear, where love is slowly drifting CONTAC T away and becoming something unreachable, we Academy of Arts Novi Sad, come across unfortunate people, such as Raša [email protected] and his sick, demanding father. Living on the edge of existence in a pre-apocalyptic time, he becomes a security guard at an old hotel, where he meets strange characters with whom he shares his misfortune.

D IREC TED BY Petar Pašić

CONTAC T mogorovic@soulfoodfilms.com

INCARNATION WIND WORK INKARNACIJA VETAR IN PROGRESS 80’ / thriler, mistery, action / post production 80’ / drama / post-production

A man wakes up in a square of an unknown A few ordinary summer days. city again and again, after each failed attempt to escape four masked assassins. Through the D IREC TED BY neverending chase, he tries to recover his identity, Tamara Drakulić and find out who has set him up. CONTAC T Monkey Production

D IREC TED BY [email protected] Filip Kovačević

CONTAC T Viktorija Film, marko.jocic@viktorijafilm.net Void Pictures, kovacevic.fi[email protected]

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RUNNING TIME 90 MIN FORMAT HD RELEASE DATE OCTOBER 2016 GENRE BLACK COMEDY RUNNING TIME 100 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE OCTOBER 2016 GENRE COMEDY REQUIEM FOR MRS.J SAMURAI IN AUTUMN REKVIJEM ZA GOSPODJU J. JESEN SAMURAJA

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Synopsis SEE Film Pro, Serbia Mali Budo, Serbia / Gargantua Films, Serbia On the day the family pet - a rabbit - dies, Mrs. J, a modest The Samurai in Autumn is a film filled with laughs, tears, Geopoly Film, Bulgaria D IREC TED BY middle-aged widow, a former administrative clerk, decides Skopje Film Studio, Macedonia Danilo Bećković heartbreaks and martial arts. It’s a story of a karate champion to bury the rabbit, wash a sink full of dishes, go to the store D IREC TED BY S C REENP LAY who falls from grace after being caught in a doping scandal. Bojan Vuletić Danilo Bećković and dig up an old family pistol. She is determined to kill S C REENP LAY D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY He returns to his birthplace, a small town in Serbia and finds herself on the anniversary of her husband’s death, which is Bojan Vuletić Bojana Andrić redemption by falling in love with a single mother whose D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY M U S I C in a week’s time. Mrs. J decides to go to a stonemason and Jelena Stanković Marko Kon son he is teaching in his karate class. Unable to maintain his hire him to place her picture on the tombstone; to return PRODUC TION DES IGNER PRODUC TION DES IGNER lifestyle, he secretly enters the underground MMA fighting Zorana Petrov Jelena Milinović a borrowed chair to her neighbor; to visit for the first time COS TUMES COS TUMES circuit and risks losing it all. the megamarket where her older daughter Anna works; to Lana Pavlović Lidija Jovanović CAS T E DITOR collect her severance pay from the bankrupt factory she has Danilo Bećković Mirjana Karanović, Danica Nedeljković, Aleksandar Popović spent half her life working in; to correct a typo in her name Jovana Gavrilović, , Vučić CAS T born in Podgorica in 1981. He has a degree in Film and TV on her birth certificate. Mrs. J decides to do all that. But to Perović, Srđan Žika Todorović, Boris Isaković Petar Strugar, Hristina Popović, Nikola Kojo, Directing as well as in General Literature and Literary Theory Sergej Trifunović, Katarina Žutić, Petar start doing all that she needs a certificate of her employment CONTAC T Novićević, Slaviša Čurović from the . over the past 20 years. SEE Film Pro Filmography: Tsernianski, 2015 (documentary feature, Omladinskih brigada 224 CONTAC T 11070 Belgrade Gargantua Films director, writer), Juliet and Alfa Romeo, 2015 (feature film, Bojan Vuletić Tel: +381 11 6155 830 Gospodar Jovanova 49 co-writer), Đilas, (TV documentary, director, writer), Little seefi[email protected] 11000 Belgrade MA in film and TV directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts Buddho, 2014 (feature film, director, co-writer) Mob: +381 64 274 11 77 in Belgrade. As a co-writer, he has collaborated with director marko.paljic@gargantuafilms.com Stefan Arsenijević on the feature omnibus Lost and Found www.gargantuafilms.com and feature film Love and Other Crimes, for which he was awarded two times for best script award at national festivals. His first feature film Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the East-West competition.

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RUNNING TIME 80 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE AUGUST 2016 STATUS COMPLETED RUNNING TIME 75 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE MAY 2016 CARGO CONTROINDICAZIONE CARGO CONTROINDICAZIONE

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Synopsis WAKE UP Films, Serbia Tamara von Steiner, Italy , one of the greatest contemporary poets and The last prison mental hospital in Europe. A place easy to FACTUM, Croatia Nin Film, Serbia musicians of ex-Yugoslavia, searches for an ultimate song Cinnamon Production, Serbia get into, impossible to get out of. Patients, torn between an to express his quest for freedom. Following him from his D IREC TED BY unbeatable legal system and entitled psychiatrists try to find Biljana Tutorov D IREC TED BY home in Paris, across Europe and Balkans, to the intimacy Tamara von Steiner a sanctuary in Christ. But, how much help can he ofer to of a remote Adriatic island where he now returns to live, we D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY those who died long ago? Controindicazione is a story of William Long & Goran Legović S C REENP LAY embark on a spiritual jurney through music and songwriting. Tamara von Steiner an unbeatable system, an entity that was created and then M U S I C broke free from its maker’s control. An entity that exists on Darko Rundek & Cargo Orkestar D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY Biljana Tutorov Aleksandar Mijailović its own, that no one will take responsibility for, an entity that After graduating Art History at the Catholic University in PRODUC TION DES IGNER grinds human dignity and lives into dust. Louvain, Belgium, Biljana studied Film Anthropology at Ecole Biljana Tutorov E DITOR Tamara von Steiner Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. In parallel, she studied E DITOR Tamara von Steiner Drama at Jacque Lecoq School. She has authored video Ana Lagator CONTAC T Born in Belgrade, where she graduated at the Faculty Cinnamon Production installations, short, feature and documentary films, video CAS T Bulevar vojvode Mišića 39 a of Dramatic Arts. She has directed over 15 shorts and works and performances. She works as a program curator for Darko Rundek, Isabel Catala, Đani Pervan, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia documentaries. In 2009 she moved to Sicily. Her first Emmanuel Ferraz, Dušan Vranić, Bruno tel: +381 64 658 4561 Free Zone Film Festival in Belgrade. Arnal, Igor Pavlica, Vedran Peternel [email protected] feature documentary Delinquents was shot in the most www.cinnamonproduction.com infamous prison in Italy, the “Ucciardone”. Her following film, W ORLD S ALES Controindicazione, takes place in the last prison hospital for WAKE UP Films Milete Jakšića 12 the criminally insane in Europe. 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia t: +381 21 523 921 m: +381 62 891 91 86 www.wakeupfilms.net

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RUNNING TIME 80 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE FEBRUARY 2016 RUNNING TIME 74 MIN FORMAT HD DCP RELEASE DATE NOVEMBER 2016 STATUS POST PRODUCTION DEPTH TWO THE DISTANCES DUBINA DVA DALJINE

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Synopsis Non-Aligned Films, Serbia (Dragana Jovović) All Inclusive Films, Serbia (Andrijana A combination of spoken testimonies and images of places This film is about a journey of Indira, a Cuban immigrant to Humanitarian Law Center, Serbia (Sandra Stojković) where heinous crimes happened 17 years ago, Depth two is a Orlović) America. About an attempt to find a better life and economic documentary about a mass grave in the suburbs of Belgrade. Cinéma Defacto, France (Sophie Erbs) D IREC TED BY security. But also about consequences her emigration Nemanja Vojinović In an attempt to uncover and give a voice to the stories that D IREC TED BY inflicted to her family. In Santa Clara in Cuba, she left her were intentionally buried in silence, film utilizes a hypnotic Ognjen Glavonić D IREKTORI F OTOGRAF I J E 11-year-old son Leandro and mother Xiomara together with Nemanja Vojinović, Uroš Milutinović and meditative style which speaks directly to the imagination S C REENP LAY many other members of her numerous family. Settled now and sensations of the viewer. Ognjen Glavonić S C REENP LAY in New Jersey, Indira struggles to adapt to cold weather, Nemanja Vojinović, Zlatko Pranjić D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY diferent mentality and to a completely new social system, Ognjen Glavonić Tatjana Krstevski M U S I C unfamiliar to Cubans. Her “American Dream” turns to be an Studied film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Predrag Adamović, Ana Ćurčin “American Nightmare”. E DITOR Belgrade. His documentary, Živan Makes a Punk Festival Jelena Maksimović E DITOR (2014) has been screened at more than 50 international Nada Kostić Nemanja Vojinović W ORLD S ALES festivals including Rotterdam, IndieLisboa, Cinéma du Ioanna Stais CONTAC T Studied film directing at The Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Réel, CPH:DOX. Depth Two, his latest documentary, which HERETIC OUTREACH ALL INCLUSIVE FILMS Belgrade, where he graduated in 2012 with omnibus film +30 6937966598 Kraljice Katarine 57 premiered at 66th Berlinale Forum. Glavonić is currently in [email protected] 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Where’s Nadja, co-directed with colleagues from his class. pre-production of his first fiction feature, The Load. He is the andrijana@allinclusivefilms.rs His short documentary Reality, fuck of won many awards +381 64 0813530 director and co-founder of Pančevo Film Festival (Serbia). at international film festivals. He’s currently finishing his first www.allinlcusivefilms.rs feature-length documentary project The Distances.

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RUNNING TIME 82 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE MAY 2016 STATUS COMPLETED RUNNING TIME 90 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE OCTOBER 2016 GENRE DOCUMENTARY ENKEL GASTARBEITER STORIES ENKEL GASTARBAJTERSKE PRIČE

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Synopsis Radio Television Vojvodina, Serbia Corona Film, Serbia Rainer Hoess, the grandson of the commander of the Darko Markov is a Viennese taxi driver who gets his inspiration Cinnamon Production, Serbia Auschwitz death camp Rudolph Hoess, has his new grandma, D IREC TED BY D IREC TED BY for his novel about the hard life of Balkan gastarbeiters an Auschwitz survivor Eva Mozes Kor, who symbolically Aleksandar Reljić Mladen Đorđević (lit. “guest workers”, German word for immigrant laborers, S C REENP LAY adopted him as her grandson. Rainer Hoess left his Nazi S C REENP LAY Mladen Đorđević also adopted by Balkan people) while driving around the family at the age of 15 and devoted his life to researching Aleksandar Reljić D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY streets of Vienna. After the good reception of the novel and Dalibor Tonković the holocaust and his Nazi grandfather’s criminal heritage. A RT DIREC TOR E DITOR monodrama (which Darko based on the novel, and performs On the other hand, Eva Mozes Kor is a survivor of Dr. Joseph Milica Stojanov Milan Jakonić, Petar Jakonić himself), our protagonist decides to take a step further

Mengele’s deadly laboratory experiments, along with her twin D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY CONTAC T and turn his gastarbeiter experience into a theatre play. He sister Miriam. She has forgiven Dr. Mengele and other Nazi Viktor Prell Corona Film opts to give the roles to authentic persons, those he had perpetrators for what they have done to her, explaining that Dr Ivana Ribara 179/32 already written about in the novel, and who will actually play M U S I C 11070 Belgrade she refuses to be victimized. The act of adoption of Rainer Milan Kerezović, Mihajlo Obrenov Mob: +381 64 506 9834 themselves. Darko and his friends want to overcome the hard Hoess is what she calls the “ultimate revenge”, because: [email protected] life in a foreign country through artistic action, thus finding PRODUC TION DES IGNER „Rudolph Hoess could not enjoy his grandson, but I can!“ Pavel Gaža shelter from the cruel reality.

CONTAC T Aleksandar Reljić Aleksandar Reljić Mladen Đorđević Journalist and the head of the Documentary Department Tel: +381648195329 +38163528377 Born in 1978 in Belgrade. He graduated from the Faculty [email protected] at Radio Television Vojvodina, born in Belgrade in 1974. of Dramatic Arts in film and TV directing, with a feature Throughout his 20-year career, he has authored numerous TV documentary Made in Serbia. He is the author of several short documentaries, mostly dealing with inter-ethnic relations in films which achieved considerable success and were shown the former Yugoslavia, exacerbated by the wars of the 90’s. both at home and abroad. His latest feature documentary is The Life and Death of a Porn Gang (2009). He is also the author of one of the six stories which comprise the omnibus The Equals. He has served as the selector of the FEST Belgrade film festival since 2014.

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RUNNING TIME 90 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE SEPTEMBER 2017 STATUS WORK IN PROGRESS RUNNING TIME 80 MIN FORMAT DCP STATUS COMPLETED THE LABUDOVIĆ FILES THE LEAP DOSIJE LABUDOVIĆ SKOK

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Synopsis Dribbling Pictures, Serbia Cinnamon Production, Serbia Stevan Labudović has a theory about a 50mm camera lens Skok (The Leap) follows the life of a professional basketball MD Cine, Algeria – that it reveals the soul of the person you are filming. This D IREC TED BY player, Nataša Kovačević, from her trafc accident in 2013 was the case when he was making a film about Yasser Arafat D IREC TED BY Ivica Vidanović in Hungary to her return to professional basketball in 2015 Mila Turajlić and the PLO, when he was filming the revolutionary leaders S C REENP LAY in Belgrade. Her benefactor was the Basketball Association of the Algerian war, or Ho Chi Minh, Nehru, Nasser, Queen S C REENP LAY Aleksandar Miletić, Ivica Vidanović of France with its President, Jean-Pierre Siutat. Nataša was Mila Turajlić Elisabeth, Kim Jong Il, JFK, Fidel Castro, Emperor Haile D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY leading her team to the bronze medal at the Junior European Selassie, Saddam Hussein, Shah Reza Pahlavi or Colonel D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY Nemanja Petković Championship in 2012. And then, it was all cut short by Jelena Stanković Gaddafi. As the cameraman assigned to follow the Yugoslav FEATURING a trafc accident in which the bus carrying Gyor’s players president Tito on a series of historic voyages in the 1950s, CONTAC T Nataša Kovačević, Vukašin Kovačević, Jean skidded of the road. Doctors had to amputate her left leg Stevan had the opportunity to capture history up close. The Dribbling Pictures Pierre Siutat, Goran Radonjić below the knee. She was only 19. But soon after, she tweeted Bitoljska 2/II story of his life and the images he filmed open up the world 11000 Belgrade, Serbia CONTAC T this “I’ve decided - I’m getting back out onto the court!” This of the Non-Aligned Movement, revealing a history of politics, Tel: + 381 63 30 2345 Cinnamon Production tweet is a true reflection of her character. Now, between her [email protected] Bulevar vojvode Mišića 39 a personality and promise. www.dribblingpictures.com 11000 Belgrade, Serbia workouts, she acts as a FIBA Youth Ambassador. tel: +381 64 658 4561 [email protected] Mila Turajlić www.cinnamonproduction.com Ivica Vidanović A documentary filmmaker from Belgrade, Serbia, best known Born in Belgrade. He directed the TV series It’s a Long Way for her documentary Cinema Communisto, which premiered to Hollywood and The Great Serbia, one story in omnibus The at IDFA and the Tribeca Film Festival, and went on to win 16 Equals, the documentary series The Other Side of Serbia, awards including the top prize at the Chicago International documentary films On Sensitivity, Six Years Older, I Give You Film Festival, and the FOCAL Award for Creative Use of My Peace and We Were World Champions. He is the founder Archival Footage. and owner of the production company Cinnamon Production.

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RUNNING TIME 90 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE SEPTEMBER 2016 RUNNING TIME 120 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE SEPTEMBER 2016 STATUS POST PRODUCTION LEGACY THE LONG ROAD TO WAR ZAVEŠTANJE DUGO PUTOVANJE U RAT

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Synopsis Cinnamon Production, Serbia Paradox Film, Serbia In this film the last living witnesses of events from Second A comprehensive documentary study on the origins of the Terirem, Serbia World War tell their stories and thus transfer the silenced D IREC TED BY First World War, the greatest armed conflict that the world victims’ voices into present times. Recorded memories, D IREC TED BY Miloš Škundrić had seen at the time. The film is based on interviews with Ivan Jović so full of life experience and wisdom, teach us how to S C REENP LAY the most prominent historians from the UK, Germany, Russia, lead meaningful lives. This documentary represents a S C REENP LAY Miloš Škundrić France, Austria and Serbia and the film material coming from Ivan Jović final parting from an entire generation and becomes a D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY 15 country archives. cinematic monument that our generation is erecting in their D IREC TORS OF P HOTOGRAP HY Aleksandar Kostić The story begins in 1870s with the reshaping of Europe: Pablo Ferro Živanović, Jelena Stanković, memory. The heroes of Legacy show us how to rebuild life the expulsion of the Ottoman Empire from Bosnia, which Biljana Ristivojčević Bižić M U S I C after unimaginable horrors and deaths, and also how man Nemanja Mosurović will set Austria and Serbia one against another; and the resurrects himself through love and forgiveness. This film E DITORS unification of Germany, which was to seek her “place in the Stevan Lung, Aleksandar Jačić E DITOR has a mission to stop the silence and oblivion which, without Miloš Škundrić, Ana Todorovski sun”, that would set her against old colonial powers France us being aware of, are endangering today’s peace and CONTAC T and , but also Russia. Through the main events and Cinnamon Production PARTIC I P ANTS coexistence. Bulevar vojvode Mišića 39 a Hew Strachan, John C.G. Röhl, Annika persons, the film follows these two antagonisms up to 1914 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Mombauer, Oleg Airapetov, Georges-Henri and the outbreak of the Great War. tel: +381 64 658 4561 Soutou, Jean-Paul Bled, Stig Förster, Lothar Ivan Jović [email protected] Höbelt, Dušan Bataković, Alan Sked Born in 1971. Graduated at Teacher’s faculty in Belgrade and www.cinnamonproduction.com Miloš Škundrić CONTACT completed his MA studies at Faculty for special education Born in Belgrade in 1977. Graduated from the Faculty of Paradox Film d.o.o, in Belgrade. He worked on diferent alternative educational Kalnička 9a Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 2009. Directed many short films projects. He wrote several books, including two novels, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia and documentaries, TV commercials and TV shows. The Tel: + 381 63 8255210 and worked on diferent television documentary projects ofce@paradoxfilm.rs Long Road to War is his first feature length film. as a screenwriter. Filmography: Ordinary Day (short, 2011), Winegrower (short, 2012), Tea party (doc, 2012), The Healing (feature fiction, 2014)

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RUNNING TIME 70 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE DECEMBER 2016 STATUS WORK IN PROGRESS RUNNING TIME 108 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE APRIL 2016 STATUS COMPLETED OCCUPIED CINEMA THE OTHER LINE OKUPIRANI BIOSKOP DRUGA LINIJA

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Synopsis This and That Productions, Serbia (Snežana MRV Production, Serbia (Goran Vujičin) Occupied Cinema is an inside view of an unusual form of The Other Line is a product of 10 years of research of cultural Penev) civil protest that started as a guerrilla takeover of the cinema D IREC TED BY and art scene in Novi Sad (late 60s and 70s), which has been “Zvezda”, one of the fourteen cinemas in the ownership of the D IREC TED BY Nenad Milošević marginalized until today. This artistic movement was directly Senka Domanović public company Belgrade Film that were privatized in 2007. S C REENP LAY connected not only with important art centers of the former All those cinemas were closed and intentionally destroyed S C REENP LAY Nenad Milošević Yugoslavia, but also with existing flows of world art during Senka Domanović th over the years. The film begins with the evening of entry into D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY its brief and productive activities (7e Biennale de Paris, 19 the space and follows the events from that moment on. D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY Nenad Milošević Berlinale). This avant-garde movement had become threat to Siniša Dugonjić Volunteer work, euphoric solidarity and revolutionary M U S I C communist establishment, the authors’ work were sabotaged, enthusiasm, participation of a large number of citizens and E DITOR Ernő Király the films were sealed of, five artists were taken to trial, two professional public, a new cultural space being created in an Mina Nenadović were sent in prison. Why this retrograde mechanism, which E DITOR old cinema… This film is a story of the unification of diferent CONTAC T Darko Maletin was erasing and destroying the most creative, the most social groups with an intense need to change the reality This and That Productions representative progressive impulses in our ambience, is still Južni bulevar 126/47 CONTAC T which they share. 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Druga linija active even today? Tel: + 381 64 161 23 13 Futoški put 1/2, [email protected] 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia Senka Domanović www.thisandthat.rs Tel: +381 62 463 202 Nenad Milošević Born in Belgrade in 1982. Simultaneously with studies of [email protected] Film, television and theatre director. Graduated directing at [email protected] journalism at Faculty of Political Sciences, she completes a the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. Director at Television of www.drugalinija.com three-year private film school Kvadrat. Vojvodina. Filmography: A Land Bird, short fiction, 30’, 2006; In 2005 she enters the film and television directing at the The Hourglass - making of, 30’, 2007; Player in all directions, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, from where she graduated in 2011. documentary, director, 28’, 2009; Process, film essay, 19’, Occupied cinema is her debut feature documentary. 2016.

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RUNNING TIME 90 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE JANUARY 2017 STATUS POST PRODUCTION RUNNING TIME 67 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE MAY 2015 STATUS COMPLETED THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING THE TRAMWAY HOTEL DRUGA STRANA SVEGA HOTEL DVOJKA

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Synopsis Dribbling Pictures, Serbia Baš Čelik, Serbia (Jelena Mitrović) A locked door in an apartment in Belgrade, which has not The story is set in the Belgrade city center, in the tramway no 2. Survivance France been opened for more than 65 years, drives the desire to HBO Europe D IREC TED BY Once a defining border between the city’s „elite“ and „the explore what comes after a democratic revolution. Faced ARTE WDR Marko Mamuzić others“, the tramway line no 2 now sufers the consequences with the symbol of how the political becomes the personal, SUPPORTED BY S C REENP LAY of the post-war economic and social decline. the chronicle of a family in Serbia becomes a portrait of EURIMAGES Marko Mamuzić Reality boards the line, literally: the refugees, the social CNC-Cinemas du monde choices one makes, from struggling against repression to Doha Film Institute D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY dropouts, the unemployed, the alcoholics, the beggars, the dealing with disillusion under transition. Nikola Majdak jr. retired, and the newcomers that could not fit into the new D IREC TED BY order, all seeking a sanctuary. Their entire life is packed into Mila Turajlić M U S I C Mila Turajlić Dušan Petrović their plastic bags. Each and every one of them started their A documentary filmmaker from Belgrade, Serbia, best known S C REENP LAY journey in unfortunate times of the 1990s; each and every Mila Turajlić E DITOR for her documentary Cinema Komunisto, which premiered at Miloš Stojanović one of them has a history of misfortune to tell. IDFA and the Tribeca Film Festival, and went on to win 16 D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY Jelena Stanković CONTAC T awards including top prize at the Chicago Int’l Film Festival, Film House Baš Čelik Marko Mamuzić and the FOCAL Award for Creative Use of Archival Footage. E DITOR Gospodar Jevremova 35 Born in Lyon, France, 1966. Studied at Sorbonne, Paris, DEUG Aleksandra Milovanovic 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Tel:+381 11 303 4441 Arts Plastiques, than graduated directing at Sarajevo Drama CONTAC T [email protected] School. He lives and works in Belgrade. Dribbling Pictures www.bascelik.net Bitoljska 2/II 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Tel: + 381 63 30 2345 [email protected] www.othersideofeverything.com

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RUNNING TIME 62 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE APRIL 2016 STATUS COMPLETED RUNNING TIME 70 MIN FORMAT DCP RELEASE DATE AUGUST 2016 WALL OF DEATH, AND ALL THAT WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR, GRANDMA? ZID SMRTI, I TAKO TO ŠTA ČEKAMO, BABA?

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Synopsis Horopter Film Production, Serbia (Mladen Wake Up Films, Serbia Brankica was the central attraction at country-fairs when she Dragoslava, a retired professor, lives with her husband and Kovačević) Kinematograf, Croatia was just 10 years old. Her big brothers were star acrobats on Restart, Croatia (Tibor Keser) their three grandchildren in a town on the Serbia-Croatia the wall of death, considered legends in former Yugoslavia, D IREC TED BY border. She works as a pool monitor and keeps her private D IREC TED BY Biljana Tutorov and she was the princess on the wall. Now, her brothers Mladen Kovačević archive of recent history. She and her two friends play cards are long gone, she is the only one left. A 43-year-old D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY everyday, pooling their winnings to finance their trips. The S C REENP LAY Orfeas Skutelis grandmother of six grandchildren, she is repeating the same Mladen Kovačević dream of a Europe which embraces and protects its people old stunts on her motorcycle while riding on the sidewalls of M U S I C fades away along with Dragoslava’s hope for a better future D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY Bojan Z and others a huge wooden barrel. She lingers between her melancholic Pablo Ferro Živanović of democracy. But she needs to put her grandchildren on memories and a claustrophobic existence around the last PRODUC TION DES IGNER the right path and leave an inheritance of hope and love for remaining “wall of death”. M U S I C Biljana Tutorov them. The film tells the story of small common people who Nemanja Mosurović E DITOR live under the weight of politics in the suburbia of Europe. Mladen Kovačević E DITOR Ana Lagator Jelena Maksimović After studies of film directing in Belgrade, London, and Cape CAS T Biljana Tutorov Town, Mladen Kovačević wholeheartedly dedicated himself to CONTAC T Dragoslava Aleksić, Dragan Aleksić, Lena After graduating Art History at the Catholic University in Horopter Film Production Gordić, Nataša Bošnjak, Dušan Bošnjak, documentaries. He made several commissioned films before Vardarska 12 Svetlana Zeković, Malina Vrbaški Louvain, Belgium, Biljana studied Film Anthropology at Ecole his feature debut, the unpretentiously ofbeat Unplugged 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. In parallel, she studied Tel: +381 69 8409283 CONTAC T (Visions du Réel, Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, FIDMarseille, DOK Drama at Jacque Lecoq School. She has authored video [email protected] WAKE UP Films Leipzig, 80 festivals, 10 awards). Wall of Death, and All That www.horopter.rs Milete Jakšića 12 installations, short, feature and documentary films, video premieres at Visions du Réel 2016. 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia works and performances. She works as a program curator for t: +381 21 523 921 m: +381 62 891 91 86 the Free Zone Film Festival in Belgrade. www.wakeupfilms.net

48 49 F EATURE DOC UMENTARIES FOUR PASSPORTS ČETIRI PASOŠA

Four Passports is a partly animated first-person documentary about emigration and identity in the aftermath of former Yugoslavia’s dissolution, told from the personal perspective of filmmaker Mihajlo Jevtic. The story of four passports and one country – a farewell 25 years in the making.

PRODUC ED BY Parabellum film, Germany Film the World, Serbia Fade In, Croatia

D IREC TED BYMihajlo Jevtić S C REENP LAY Mihajlo Jevtić

CONTAC T Film the World RUNNING TIME 65 MIN FORMAT HD RELEASE DATE OCTOBER 2016 STATUS WORK IN PROGRESS Đorđa Stanojevića 11/78 11070 Belgrade, Serbia RUNNING TIME 83 MIN Tel: + 381 64 1652553 WHY DRAGAN GATHERED HIS BAND [email protected] FORMAT DCP ZAŠTO JE DRAGAN NAPRAVIO ORKESTAR RELEASE DATE JANUARY 2016 STATUS COMPLETED

Synopsis PRODUC ED BY Incubator of multimedial arts and creative Dragan Petrović is a son of a feather gatherer, former horse industries - Rezon, Serbia (Milanka Gvoić) dealer, today a “housewife” and a single father. He formed Menorah Film, Croatia (Fran Juraj Prižmić) THE PROMISE a band with his three under aged sons, not only to make a D IREC TED BY living, but also to keep his family together. They are a gipsy Nikola Spasić OBEĆANJE family from a small village in Serbia named Beska, and S C REENP LAY the film Why Dragan Gathered His Band is a story about Milanka Gvoić A century ago Rogljevo was incredibly prosperous unconditional parental love, about forgiveness towards the for a remote village in eastern Serbia. The wines of D IREC TOR OF P HOTOGRAP HY Rogljevo were to be found at exhibitions in Bordeaux wife who abandoned them when the youngest boy was only Mirko Todorović, Daniel Toader 9 months old and about the eforts of the illiterate father to and Paris. Today this region is poor and deserted. E DITOR Unexpectedly, a family of French winemakers moves enroll his children in music school and in that way provide Nikola Spasić them with better lives than he ever had. to the area. They believe they have discovered the CONTAC T promised land, one of the top five wine regions in Incubator of multimedial arts Nikola Spasić and creative industries - Rezon Europe. Their arrival sparked high hopes in some Graduated Film directing at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad Svetojovanska 4/g villagers - and great resistance and mistrust in others. 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia and he got master degree in film and TV editing at Faculty Tel: + 381 63 1991 705 PRODUC ED BY [email protected] of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He is CEO of production Optimistic Film, Serbia (Željko Mirković) company Rezon. For past several years he directed, edited SEETV, Belgium (Dušan Gajić) and produced several short fiction films which were screened D IREC TED BY Željko Mirković at festivals in Serbia and region. Why Dragan Gathered His S C REENP LAY Željko Mirković, Dušan Gajić Band is his first feature documentary. W ORLD S ALES RUNNING TIME 85 MIN Optimistic Film FORMAT DCP [email protected] RELEASE DATE OCTOBER 2016 www.optimisticfilm.com STATUS POST PRODUCTION

50 51 FILM CENTER SERBIA | WWW.FCS.RS MASKS YOURS TRULY, MASKE SEXYMAJA

The film is a study of various artistic masks of VOLI VAS VAŠA Slobodan Tišma – poet, conceptualist, “invisible SEXYMAJA artist”, rock musician, performer and writer.

A blogger girl with sharp writing style presents D IREC TED BY herself as a prostitute of shameless behavior. Brankica Drašković Hmm...Could we meet that person? CONTAC T Kontraplan, [email protected] D IREC TED BY Ivan Mandić RUNNING TIME 77 MIN CONTAC T STATUS COMPLETED Dom kulture “Studentski grad” Akademski filmski centar [email protected]

RUNNING TIME 83 MIN STATUS COMPLETED

THE MOST MINORITY IMPORTANT BOY IN COPRODUCTIONS THE WORLD NAJVAŽNIJI DEČKO NA SVETU

Inspired by his idol, Justin Bieber’s biggest fan in the Balkans tries to make it in show business.

D IREC TED BY Tea Lukač

CONTAC T Faculty of Drama Arts, [email protected] Public film, [email protected]

RUNNING TIME 75 MIN STATUS COMPLETED

52 53 FILM CENTER SERBIA | WWW.FCS.RS MINORITY C O P RODUC TIONS THE BLACK PIN ON THE OTHER SIDE IGLA ISPOD PRAGA S ONE STRANE

Peter, a misanthropic orthodox priest returns to his The daily routine of visiting nurse Vesna Hrestak is idyllic hometown on a Montenegrin peninsula to disrupted by an phone call. It is Žarko, her husband nurse his demented mother. He quickly gets into a who wants to see her and their children, after twenty conflict with superstitious villagers who start seeking years of no contact. At first, Vesna keeps that for creative ways to chase him away. unexpected call a secret from her daughter Jadranka, who lives with her, as well as from her married son PRODUC ED BY Vladimir, whose two-year-old child she babysits Adriatic Western, Montenegro EED Productions, Serbia occasionally. The following morning, Vesna informs D IREC TED BY Ivan Marinović her children about their father’s unexpected call but S C REENP LAY Ivan Marinović they say that they don’t want to see him. CONTAC T Adriatic Western PRODUC ED BY Zelenika 36 Interfilm, Croatia Herceg Novi, Montenegro Zillion film, Serbia Mob: +382 69 469 314 D IREC TED BY Zrinko Ogresta [email protected] S C REENP LAY Mate Matišić, Zrinko Ogresta

CONTAC T RUNNING TIME 100 MIN RUNNING TIME 85 MIN Interfilm FORMAT DCP FORMAT DCP Nova Ves 45/2 RELEASE DATE AUTUMN 2016 RELEASE DATE FEBRUARY 2016 10000 Zagreb, Croatia GENRE BLACK COMEDY GENRE DRAMA Tel: +385 146 67290 Fax: +385 146 67022 interfilm@interfilm.hr

BORDERS, RAINDROPS PERSEVERANCE GRANICE, KIŠE ISTRAJNOST

A film about longing and belonging. A city girl visits Perseverance is a collage of moments we do not want her extended family in the Balkan countryside during to speak about, of memories and secrets that are kept the summer, awakening in herself hope, love, and to oneself. Intertwined unrelated stories melt together a sense of mystery. The story unfolds in a recently into an integral whole. The viewer follows a series of fragmented space and this is mirrored in the narrative fatal events – birth, love (first crush, first passion and structure of the film, which is split in two halves. The mature love), to their conflicting endings – of stories ghostly presence of the young woman, Jagoda, and relationships, some voluntary, some imposed. creates a connection between the two families The presented events leave their mark on the main divided by the border. characters, they change their perception of life.

PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Balkan Kino Beograd Nukleus film, Slovenia MediaPlus, Serbia This and That Productions, Serbia Association of Montenegrin Film Makers, Montenegro D IREC TED BY Miha Knific Balkan Film, Republic of Serbia (BIH) Republika Srpska, BiH S C REENP LAY Miha Knific, Klavdija Zupan, Marjan Alčevski, D IREC TED BY Nikola Mijović, Vlastimir Sudar Tamara Doneva S C REENP LAY Nikola Mijović, Vlastimir Sudar CAS T Kristina Stevović, Vahidin Prelić, Robert Budak, Nedjeljko CONTAC T Milović, Momo Pićurić, Ognjen Vujović, Marta Pićurić, Svetlana RUNNING TIME 90 MIN RUNNING TIME 120 MIN This and That Productions Vycherova FORMAT DCP FORMAT DCP Kneza Danila 12/74 RELEASE DATE BEGINING 2017 RELEASE DATE AUTUMN 2016 11000 Belgrade, Serbia CONTAC T Tel: +381 11 7862 930 GENRE DRAMA GENRE DRAMA Balkan Kino Beograd, Dobračina 9 Mob: +381 64 16 12 313 Mob.+44 796 820 8984 [email protected] [email protected] www.thisandthat.rs

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GRAND PRIX BEST SHORT FICTION FILM ISKON ANIMA AETERNAM and BEST EDITING TRANSITION ISKON ANIMA AETERNAM in National Competition TRANZICIJA

Living in disharmony with his own soul, a man Jana has to say to her band members, desperately tries to materialize the ideal and to friends, ex-girlfriend and her family. The goodbyes use his intellect to explain that which is part of his are bittersweet, filled with regret but also with joy primordial nature. At the last moment, the voice of for her bright future in Germany, where she’s going the soul, like a guiding light, will point him to the for post graduate studies. Only her sister knows her hidden potential and strength of the right path. Then secret, that Jana is not going to study, Jana is to he will finally have to face the terrifying storm and have her sex change. These are her two days to say make the ultimate choice. goodbye to her old life.

PRODUC ED BY PRODUC ED BY Mihajlo Dragaš EED Productions

D IREC TED BY D IREC TED BY Mihajlo Dragaš Milica Tomović

CONTAC T CONTAC T [email protected] [email protected]

2015 / 14’06’’ / BLU RAY 2016 / 21’ / BLU RAY

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM BEST SHORT ANIMATED FILM ADORNMENT in National Competition in National Competition VIS DUBIUM UKRAS SVETA VIS DUBIUM

There are many reasons for joy in the Pečenković On the vast structure that floats on the ocean, an family who live in a village of Preljina, near Čačak. anonymous fisherman struggles from day to day with The energy provided by their two sets of twins helps sea monsters that surround him. These symbols of his them through their lives. The grownups enjoy their inner turmoil and primordial doubts are forcing him time with the children whose pranks and adventures to test the limits of his own endurance and strength. leave no room for monotony. Children bring love; they are the adornment of the world. Delving deep into the depths of his soul, the fisherman understands that the constant struggle is a necessity, The film was shot in Čačak as a part of the 10th and that to cope with the doubts that haunt him International Students Film Campus Interaction. even in his sleep represents one of the fundamental driving forces of his life.

PRODUC ED BY NFC Filmart Požega PRODUC ED BY Mihajlo Dragaš D IREC TED BY Stefan Krasić D IREC TED BY 2015 / 14’ / BLU RAY 2014 / 6’ 48’’ / BLU RAY Mihajlo Dragaš CONTAC T ofce@film-art.org CONTAC T [email protected]

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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY SPECIAL MENTION LOVE IN THE AGE in National Competition in National Competition TO KUYUMBA OF CONTROL PUT ZA KUJUMBU

LJUBAV U DOBA This is a story about Marko, a young man from KONTROLE Loznica, who is getting ready to leave for Kyumba. The film follows the last 24 hours before his travel to The relationship between two people becomes Russia. Marko lives with his father, an elderly bankrupt shattered when love becomes an excuse for control. factory worker who has a drinking problem. Usually, When control begins, love ceases to exist. their relationship is strained, filled with everyday misunderstandings, intolerance, minor provocations PRODUC ED BY and constant power play. However, on this particular Academy of Arts Belgrade day, they are trying to bury the hatchet and to part

D IREC TED BY ways in peace, aware of the fact that several years will Vladimir Karan pass before they see each other again.

CONTAC T Despite their good will, a vicious fight erupts between [email protected] the father and the son, and hurtful words are spoken on both sides.

PRODUC ED BY 2015 / 5’ / BLU RAY 2015 / 22’ / BLU RAY Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade

D IREC TED BY Miroslav Savić

CONTAC T [email protected]

BEST SOUND DESIGN PARADIGM in National Competition PARADIGMA

Elementary school teacher pays a suspicious visit to his pupil’s parents and shows them some worrisome content in their son’s latest school paper.

PRODUC ED BY Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade

D IREC TED BY Dean Radovanović

CONTAC T [email protected]

2015 / 29’ / BLU RAY

60 61 TOP 20 THEATRICAL RELEASES IN SERBIA IN 2015 HOME AND THE WORLD (JANUARY 1ST - DECEMBER 31ST 2015)

Box ofce indicators in Serbia have for years been based on an almost identical

Title Country Distributor Release date Admissions Gross box ofce* principle: the rivalry between American and Serbian films and their position in the top ten list. But 2015, with two Serbian films taking two top positions, has pushed Serbia Gorcilo Montenegro Art Vista 9 Jan 2015 218.465 72.623.794 back US champions, who have (which is to be expected) taken the next eight places.

We'll be the Serbia MCF 26 Feb 2015 214.994 66.214.691 Gorčilo and We Will Be World Champions, each with over 200.000 viewers, are World Champions encouraging indicators of cinemagoers’ loyalty but not really an esthetic pinnacle of Serbian film. Cinema and esthetics are not really synonymous terms, so there is no Fifty Shades of Grey USA Taramount 12 Feb 2015 162.117 57.214.480 reason for box ofce-topping Serbian films to be treated with less respect then any

Star Wars: other box ofce hits around the world. Taramount 17 Dec 2015 107.642 50.766.898 The Force Awakens USA

Paradoxically, of the two battles that Serbian film needs to win - the battle for Minions Taramount 9 Jul 2015 124.724 50.519.202 USA cinemas and the battle to find its relevant national film esthetics - Serbian film industry has not given strategic priority to either. The almost inappropriate energy Spectre UK / USA Con Film 5 Nov 2015 112.937 47.625.144 and enthusiasm with which films in Serbia are made, make this small industry an European film phenomenon. In saying so, we mean that Serbia produces more films

Hotel Transilvania 2 USA Con Film 15 Oct 2015 85.690 33.452.184 annually than Poland, a country of 50 million people, and traditionally, most Serbian films are made in disproportion to local economic capabilities.

Fast & Furious 7 USA Taramount 2 Apr 2015 83.765 30.539.664 It is important to note that a few good Serbian films, although not highly placed on box ofce lists, have overcome local limitations and reached worldly-renowned film The Martian USA / UK MCF 1 Oct 2015 60.064 30.017.819 festivals. Almost as a rule, the most viewed and most loved Serbian films never cross

The Sponge Bob Movie: local borders, which only goes to show that the problem with Serbian film - while USA Taramount 23 Apr 2015 75.140 28.258.442 Sponge Out of Water it is still searching for stable financing and the financial support by the Ministry of culture, although bigger then ever, turns out to be insufcient – should be defined Next to Me Taramount 23 Sep 2015 73.760 24.614.081 Serbia by a question: what sort of films do we need and what sort of industry do we want?

Avengers: Age of Ultron USA Taramount 30 Apr 2015 41.964 19.783.955

Mad Max: Fury Road Australia / USA Blitz Film & Video 14 May 2015 45.681 18.631.050 Miroljub Stojanović Editor-in-Chief, Film Center Serbia

Jurassic World USA Taramount 11 Jun 2015 47.009 18.158.303

The Hobbit: Blitz Film & Video 11 Dec 2014 37.411 16.423.111 The Battle of Five Armies New Zealand / USA

A Stinking Fairytale Serbia / Bulgaria Art Vista 25 Nov 2015 47.475 15.511.156

The Peanuts Movie USA MCF 5 Nov 2015 39.972 15.316.586

MCF 26 Mar 2015 36.238 14.499.675 Home USA

Taramount 18 Jun 2015 34.202 13.976.923 Inside Out USA

Taramount 25 Jun 2015 37.378 13.548.088 Ted 2 USA

* box ofce in RSD (120 RSD = 1€)

62 63 FILM CENTER SERBIA | WWW.FCS.RS F ILM F E S TIVALS IN S ERBIA

Mokra Gora, Mećavnik, Serbia between films made by recognized filmmakers and new Prokuplje, Serbia 8th KUSTENDORF FILM & MUSIC FESTIVAL currents, values and movements in cinema. An important 5th PROKUPLJE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL BOSIFEST is an International Film Festival for and by persons JANUARY 22ND - 27TH 2016 feature of FEST for decades has been its openness for films M AY 10TH - 13TH 2016 with disabilities, the only one of this kind in Southeast Rasta International from all over the world, as well as for all relevant authors and Prokuplje short film festival Europe, which is organized in Belgrade, Serbia by the Hendi Milorada Mitrovića 15, 11 000 Belgrade, Serbia works that would never have the opportunity to be shown in Bate Stefanovića 115, 18400 Prokuplje, Serbia Center Koloseum. The festival consists of both competitive Tel / fax: +381 11 24 31 505 local cinemas. To date, FEST boasts four million visitors and Mob: +381 63 813 0 714 and non-competitive segments. So far, visitors of BOSIFEST E-mail: [email protected] almost 4000 relevant international film screenings, which E-mail: [email protected] had an opportunity to watch over 300 films that had the Website: kustendorf-filmandmusicfestival.org have had their Yugoslav/Serbian and often, regional premiere Contact: Žikica Jovanović - festival director life of people with disabilities as their subject or that were Competitive for student films at the Festival. Film genre: Documentary, animated, short feature and created by disabled filmmakers. experimental films (under 30 minutes) A non commercial author’s film festival dedicated to young 63RD BELGRADE DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT Competitive Bajina Bašta, Serbia directors and their older established collegues. The festival’s FILM FESTIVAL 3rd INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL – goal is to showcase the work of young authors as well as Prokuplje is the administrative, economic and cultural M ARC H 20TH – 26TH, 2016 BAŠTA FEST films by their older collegues. Along with film projections, CEBEF centre of the Toplica region. Prokuplje Short Film Festival, JUNE 30TH – JULY 3RD 2016 the festival’s educational program focuses on organizing Ilije Garašanina 24, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia founded in 2011, is the youngest film festival in Serbia. It is UG Akademska scena workshops with famous directors for film students. Tel/fax: +381 11 33 46 946 an event where audience can see the best from the field of Vuka Karadžića 14/8, 31250 Bajina Bašta, Serbia Afterwards a music program takes place in the evening, with E-mail: [email protected] documentary, experimental, animated and fiction film from Mob: +381 65 25 82 258 performances of bands from all around the world. Website: www.bfdkf.rs around the world. Mail: [email protected] Contact: Nenad Popović - artistic director Website: www.bastafest.com Belgrade, Serbia Film genre: Documentary, animated, short fiction and Belgrade, Serbia Contact: Jovan Jelisavčić – festival director 11th THE MAGNIFICIENT 7 experimental films in national and international programs 9th BELDOCS Film genre: Short feature films Competitive EUROPEAN FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM Competitive FESTIVAL FESTIVAL One of the oldest European festivals, Belgrade Documentary JANUARY 29TH – FEBRUARY 4TH 2016 M AY 12TH - 18TH 2016 Bašta Fest is an international short fiction film festival held and Short Film Festival is almost the only event in CVK Kvadrat, Niška 3, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Nušićeva 6/4, 11 000 Belgrade, Serbia in Bajina Bašta. It is an annual event that takes place during the Balkans where audience can see the best current Tel/fax: +381 11 244 66 80 Tel: +381 11 324 88 73 the first weekend of July and lasts for four days. This year, documentary, experimental, animated and short fiction films E-mail: info@magnificent7festival.org E-mail: [email protected] the festival is being held for the third time, taking place in one place. Each year, the festival screens approximately Website: www.magnificent7festival.org Website: www.beldocs.rs from the 30th of June until the 3rd of July 2016. Due to the 150 films in its national and international competition and www.kvadrat-film.com Contact: Mladen Vušurović – art director and main producer profession of the founders (actors Jovan Jelisavčić and Maja special Programs. Contact: Zoran and Svetlana Popović – festival directors Film genre: Documentary film Šuša), the festival focuses on collaboration between directors Film genre: European feature documentary film Competitive and actors. We believe that in the future, the focus on quality Non-competitive Velika Plana, Serbia of that collaboration will have a positive impact on the 11th DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL The mission of the International Documentary Film Festival positioning of Bašta Fest among other short film festivals. The festival is attended by filmmakers open to discussion “ZLATNA BUKLIJA” BELDOCS is promoting and advancing documentary Bašta Fest is of great importance for the decentralization of with the public. The festival serves as a framework for a APRIL 2016 film in Serbia, through presenting the current and most culture, since it has brought diverse films, music and cultural series of meetings and master classes aimed primarily at Cinematography and TV production Šumadija film prominent documentary film production from all over the program to this beautiful region. One of the priorities of the students and young filmmakers. The mission of the festival UG Planaart world, encouraging the production of this film genre, and festival is to promote the incredible natural beauty of this is to promote European feature documentary films and Karadjordjeva bb, 11320 Velika Plana, Serbia promoting audience involvement, knowledge, understanding region to the visitors. authors and to stimulate domestic film production. Another Mob: +381 65 25 25 230 and respect of this specific way of artistic expression that important goal of this festival is to establish high quality E-mail: sumadijafi[email protected] finds anchorage and inspiration in historical life and its Novi Sad, Serbia communication with diferent types of audience. [email protected] peculiarities. 8th CINEMACITY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Contact: Živomir Žića Mihajlović - festival director, Mladen Belgrade, Serbia Belgrade, Serbia TBA Milosavljević - festival manager 44th BELGRADE INTERNATIONAL FILM 7th BELGRADE INTERNATIONAL FILM Cinema City Association Film genre: Documentary FESTIVAL – FEST FESTIVAL Bogoboja Atanackovića 8, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia Competitive FEBRUARY 26TH – M ARC H 6TH 2016 FOR AND BY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Tel: +381 21 633 6236 CEBEF E-mail: [email protected] The aim of the festival is to encourage production companies JUNE 1S T - 3RD 2016 Ilije Garašanina 24, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Website: www.cinemacity.org and authors to create and foster documentary films, as a Hendi centar Koloseum Tel/fax: +381 11 33 46 946 Competitive unique way of cinematic expression. At the closing event Pančićeva 14, 11 000 Belgrade, Serbia E-mail: [email protected] of the festival, the audience votes for best short movies Tel: +381 11 263 78 20 Website: www.fest.rs The Cinema City Festival is dedicated to promoting young competing for the Grand Prix. E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Milan Lazović – festival director; Jugoslav Pantelić – filmmakers as well as the 1st and 2nd films by various Website: www.bosifest.rs artistic director; Mladen Djordjević – selector independent productions. The festival framework consists of Contact: Darko Ivić – festival director several film selections, representing the latest and the best Film genre: documentary A festival of festivals, which tries to strike the right balance films that are guaranteed to draw large audiences. In addition Competitive

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to the films showcased, the festival serves as a gathering The first and the oldest exclusively European film festival. organized for the participants as well as for the participants A festival of actors’ achievements in feature films. The oldest place for a multitude of young film professionals from the We believe that European film ofers a measure of autonomy of the 11th ISFC “Interaction 2016”: the “Interscreen” national film festival. region, under the Cinema City Campus educational platform. in relation to self-reproducing power of global market programme, excursions, sports and music activities. Through a series of workshops and interactive lectures, the institutions which have turned the cultural space into a Pančevo, Serbia Campus provides the attendees with a set of necessary brilliant investment field. By means of selecting the highest Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia 2nd PANČEVO FILM FESTIVAL competences and innovative skills in order to help them, as quality modern European films who accept no compromises, 40th FILM SCREENPLAY FESTIVAL B EGINING OF SEP T E M B E R future film professionals, on the road towards their first films. the European Film Festival Palić wants to prove that this kind A UGUS T 13TH - 17TH 2016 Organization and production Pančevo Film Festival The festival is attended by more than 40.000 film lovers each of belief is not in vain, and that any attempt at emancipation Cultural centre Vrnjačka Banja Valjevska 8, 26000 Pančevo, Serbia year, as well as numerous Serbian, regional and global film and renewal of critical consciousness truly makes sense. Vrnjačka 20, 36 210 Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia Tel: +381 13 332 810 stars and professionals. Tel/fax: +381 36 611 153 Mob: +381 62 404 362 Požega, Serbia E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: info@pancevofilmfestival.com, pancevofilmfestival@ Sopot, Serbia INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILM CAMP Website: www.screenfest.org.rs gmail.com 45th FILM FESTIVAL SOPOT- SOFEST “INTERACTION 2016” Contact: Saša Milenković – director of Cultural centre Website: www.pancevofilmfestival.com JULY 5TH - 9TH 2016 A UGUS T 12TH - 29TH 2016 Film genre: General – domestic films Contact: Ognjen Glavonić – festival director Cultural centre Sopot Independent Film Center “Filmart” Competitive Competitive and Non-competitive selections Kosmajski trg 7, 11 450 Sopot, Serbia Radnička 11, 31210 Požega, Serbia Tel: +381 11 825 12 38 Tel: +381 64 1259428; +381 63 8507035 The main part of the festival is the symposium on numerous During PAFF, more than 50 international titles, ranging Fax: +381 11 825 13 15 Email: ofce@film-art.org film topics. The festival also organizes a screenplay workshop from documentaries and fiction films, to experimental and Mail: [email protected] Website: www.film-art.org/interaction and round tables, as well as a summer scriptwriting camp essay films of short, medium and feature length, will be Website: www.fs.rs Contact: Dejan Petrović and a camp for young critics. Besides movie activities, we screened at several locations and cinemas. Pančevo Film www.czksopot.org.rs Film genre: Student films organize other cultural programs, such as literary evenings. Festival is an event and a platform dedicated to cultivating Contact: Suzana Anastasov Marković Non-competitive and promoting independent cinema as well as films created Film genre: Domestic feature film Silver Lake, Serbia in any kind of production (big-budget, small budget or no- Competitive Since 2006, Independent Film Center “Filmart” is the 8th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF TOURIST budget) that cherish original, brave and exciting approach to organizer of the International Student Film Camp narrative, form, structure, and aesthetics. In other words, the SOFEST is one of the oldest festivals in Serbia with a long AND ECOLOGY FILMS - SILAFEST “Interaction”. During their three-week stay in the western festival encompasses all those movies that use mature and A UGUS T 28 - 3RD SEP TEMBER 2016 tradition of freedom of expression. In its 2015 edition, the innovative ways of visual communication. part of Serbia, film school students from all around the world Agency ALTERNATIVA festival modified its concept. In future years, the festival will shoot documentary films on a given subject. Apart from film Borska 29, 11090 Belgrade, Serbia be focused on a diferent film professions which usually production, there are also accompanying activities, including Tel: +381 65 334 5060, +381 64 67 25 998 Leskovac, Serbia aren’t in the forefront of other festivals. Those professions screenings of their films, various musical and sport events. E-mail: [email protected] 9th LESKOVAC INTERNATIONAL FILM include cinematographer – director of photography, During its ten years, there were 189 participants from 47 Website: www.silafest.com composer, sound designer, editor, set designer and costume FESTIVAL - LIFFE countries and from 86 film schools. Also, 38 documentaries Contact: Boško Savković – CEO, Vladimir Kajlović - secretary TBA designer. were shot, 9 of which were awarded with 12 diferent prizes of the festival Cultural centre Leskovac all over the world. Bulevar oslobođenja 101, 16000 Leskovac, Serbia The three-member jury decides on the winners and the The International Festival of Ecology and Tourist Film, Silver Tel: +381 16 212 991 awards are both money and a plaque. This year the festival INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY lake Tour film Festival, was founded by the decision of The Fax: +381 16 248 302 is focused on the profession of cinematographer – director Municipality of Veliko Gradište in November 2008. The E-mail: fi[email protected] of photography. Also, the best director and screenwriter will MASTERCLASS “INTERDOC 2016” A UGUS T 19TH - 20TH 2016 Festival Council interprets Tourism in the widest possible Website: www.lkc.org.rs be awarded with a diploma by the professional jury, while The Independent Film Center “Filmart” sense of the word – it is open for Cultural Tourism films, films Contact: Dragan Jović - manager of film program the audience jury decides on the best film, actor and actress, Radnička Street 11, 31210 Požega, Serbia about wine, big and famous holy places, sports films, etc. The Competitive who will get an award consisting of money and a statuette. Tel: +381 64 125 94 28; +381 63 850 70 35 Festival is a part of the CIFFT (International Committee of E-mail: ofce@film-art.org Tourism Film Festival). This festival of directorial achievements was launched in Subotica, Serbia Website: www.film-art.org 2008 with the aim to promote filmmakers from Serbia and 23rd EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL PALIĆ Niš, Serbia the region. The main prize for directing is the “Grand Prix JULY 16TH – 23RD 2016 The 6th International Documentary Masterclass “Interdoc Živojin Žika Pavlović.” Open University 51th FESTIVAL OF ACTORS 2016” is going to be organized by the Independent Film L A S T WEEK OF A UGUS T 2016 Trg Cara Jovana Nenada 15, 24000 Subotica, Serbia Centre “Filmart“, from 19th to 29th of August 2016 in Požega. Screen actors’ guild of Serbia Gornji Milanovac, Serbia Tel: +381 24 554 600 From 20th to 27th August 2016, workshops led by eminent Cultural centre Niš Fax: +381 24 553 116 3th SHORT FILM FESTIVAL – SHORT FORM professors and directors of documentaries Dragan Elčić Stanoja Bunuševca bb, 18000 Niš, Serbia SEP TEMBAR 2017 Email: board@palicfilmfestival.com, petar@palicfilmfestival. (Serbia) and Mladen Matičević (Serbia) are going to be Tel/fax: +381 18 595 740, +381 18 595 741, +381 11 3243 482 Cultural centre Gornji Milanovac com organized. Distinguished Masterclass lecturers will share E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Trg Kneza Mihaila 1, 32300 Gornji Milanovac, Serbia Website: www.palicfilmfestival.com their knowledge and experience gained from years working Website: u pripremi Tel: +381 32 711 118 Contact: Ilija Tatić – director, Petar Mitrić – programme as successful documentary films authors. Screening and Contact: Bojana Simović, festival director Fax: +381 32 720 425 director analysis of selected documentaries will be included. During Film genre: Serbian films E-mail: [email protected] Film genre: European the Festival, mutual accompanying programmes will be Competitive Website: www.kratkaforma.kcgm.org.rs Competitive

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Contact: Dragan Arsić – festival director, Boban Stefanović – recommended by CILECT (International Association of Film Association of Vojvodina film and television makers Film genre: Kid films festival coordinator and Television Schools). Blvd. Mihajla Pupina 24, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia Audience award Competitive Tel: +381 11 24 60 087, +381 21 456 201 Belgrade, Serbia Mobile: +381 63 205 350, +381 64 613 19 40 The Kids Film Festival is a children’s, artistic festival of films The aim of the Festival is to promote short films, as well as 13th EUROPEAN ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL – E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] and fun, modelled on other similar festivals around the world. film creativity of children and youth. The festival showcases Website: www.bdenjeduse.co.rs This is a unique festival in our region. BALKANIMA main kinds and styles of short films and initiates contacts Contact: Srdjan Ilić – festival director, Miroslav Bata Petrović OCTOBER 4TH - 8TH 2016 between filmmakers, authors and audience. - executive director The festival showcases the best children’s films from all over Academic Film centre „Students’ City“ Cultural centre Film genre: Historical, artistic, cultural and spiritual films the world and provides kids with an opportunity to learn and Blvd. Zorana Djindjića 179, 11070 Belgrade, Serbia Tel: +381 11 about Serbia have fun in numerous workshops. Čačak, Serbia 26 91 442 Fax: +381 11 31 93 889 Mob: +381 62 267 892 Competitive 10th INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL - E-mail: [email protected] ANIMANIMA Website: www.balkanima.org Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš, Serbia The Film Festival “Vigil of Soul” is intended to primarily be a SEP TEMBER 7TH - 11TH 2016 Contact: Miodrag Milošević – festival director, Milan 12th FESTIVAL FREE ZONE documentary and short film festival that showcases films that Cultural centre Čačak Milosavljević – organizer N OVEMBER 10TH – 15TH 2016 deal with the broad subject of Serbian history, culture and Trg narodnog ustanka 2, 32000 Čačak, Serbia Film genre: European animated films (under 30 minutes) Jevrejska 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia spirituality. Those subgenres include films about the history Tel: +381 32 341 068 Competitive Tel: +381 11 328 4534 and state of Serbia, portraits of interesting personalities, Fax: +381 32 225 073 Fax: +381 11 328 4299 films dealing with archaeology, ethnology, art history, Mob: +381 64 19 52 509 The festival started in 2004 at the Culture Centre “Studentski E-mail: [email protected] contemporary art, tradition, ecology, sport, natural beauty of E-mail: [email protected] grad” at the initiative of the professor Nikola Majdak (1927- Website: www.freezoneBelgrade.org the country etc. Website: www.animanima.org 2013), one of the pioneers of Serbian animation, but also a Contact: Rajko Petrović – director/selector Contact: Milen Alempijević - artistic director famous film cinematographer and director. The main goal Film genre: Socially and politically engaged, human rights Film genre: Animated film of the Festival is promotion and presentation of European Belgrade, Serbia documentary and fiction films Competitive artistic and short animation films. Beside awards for best 25th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF Non-competitive author, the festival awards are also granted for best student’s ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM (IFEF) ANIMANIMA, an exciting journey into the amazing world of animations. OCTOBER 12TH - 16TH 2016 The 12th edition of the Free Zone will screen outstanding animation - a new inspiration and a new experience. Besides Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade art house cinematographic achievements on human rights. a rich competitive programme, the festival also ofers other Belgrade, Serbia Studentski trg 13, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Over the years, the festival has, apart from the main program, introduced three specific program lines: Guest selector’s diverse activities such as workshops and exhibitions. 11th FESTIVAL OF SERBIAN FANTASTIC FILM – Tel: +381 11 328 18 88 Fax: +381 11 328 29 44 program, Women’s films, and 14+. In addition, during the FSFF E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] festival, Q&A sessions will take place immediately after the Belgrade, Serbia TBA Website: www.etnofilm.org screenings, as well as late night conversations during which 17th INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL Južni bulevar 36, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Contact: Saša Srećković – festival administrator the audience discusses films with the authors, as well as (FSF) Mob: +381 65 82 77 281, +381 64 242 08 80 Film genre: Ethnographic and anthropologic film actors and renowned Serbian intellectuals and activists. OCTOBER 10TH - 12TH 2016 E-mail: serbianfantasyfi[email protected] Competitive Considering that Free Zone is the only socially engaged film Dunavski kej 18/11, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Website: www.fsfantastic.com festival in Serbia, it is important to stress the significance Mob: + 381 11 64 35 28 147 Contact: Miroslav Lakobrija – festival director, Jovan Ristić - The concept of the Festival aims to encourage and inspire it has in putting Serbia on European and World map of E-mail: festivalofstudentfi[email protected] selector audiences, anthropologists and filmmakers to contribute to countries that nurture the tradition of awakening the Website: www.fsf.rs Film genre: Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy the impact and use of ethnographic film. This year’s edition audience through film as an efective media. Contact: Vanja Seneši - festival coordinator Competitive (international, regional, domestic) consists of the following programmes: Main competition, Film genre: Student film Prizes: Oskull and Pyramid Informative section, Non-professional and ID3min – a special Belgrade, Serbia Competitive project for films filmed with mobile phones. The Festival of Serbian Fantastic Film (FSFF), founded in 7th GREEN FEST N OVEMBER 15 – 18TH 2016 FSF is the first international student film festival in Serbia. 2006, is the oldest film festival in Serbia dedicated solely Environment Improvement Centre It was founded in Belgrade in 1999 by students of film to fantastic cinema. Being the national festival of fantastic Belgrade, Niš, Novi Sad and 30 more towns in Palmotićeva 17/2, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia production, and accordingly, the organizational structure film, unique on Balkans for that matter, it has a domestic Serbia Tel: +381 11 33 49 479 is made up of students even today. The festival is primarily competitive selection. But its rich of programme brings 12th KIDS FILM FESTIVAL E-mail: [email protected] a cultural manifestation which presents feature films, an international, regional and domestic film selection – to OCTOBER 31S T – N OVEMBER 6TH 2016 Website: www.greenfest.rs documentaries, animated films and experimental short films educate and inspire young Serbian filmmakers. (International film festival) Contact: Ivana Jovčić - executive director, Vladan Šćekić - by young authors from all over the world, providing insight MCF MegaCom Film selector into diferent approaches to filmmaking and gathering Marka Oreškovića 1, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Sremski Karlovci, Serbia Film genre: ecology and environmental documentary and students from the world’s film schools in one place. The Tel/fax: +381 11 38 21 227 9th FILM VIGIL OF SOUL/ FILMSKO BDENJE feature films FSF also cultivates the tradition of inviting lecturers and +381 11 38 21 113 DUŠE Competitive: international competitive for short and amateur professionals from the sphere of film pedagogy, aesthetics E-mail: [email protected] OCTOBER 13 – 16, 2016 films and film direction. Over the last 14 years, more than 2,000 Website: www.kids-fest.com PP Fiks Fokus films from 50 countries have been screened. As early as www.mcf.rs Braće Jerkovića 79/1 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Belgrade’s International Green Culture Festival “Green Fest” 2001, FSF was included in the group of student festivals Contact: Lina Bošković

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is the biggest annual “green” event in the region of South Belgrade, Serbia East Europe that binds environmental and cultural activities ALTERNATIVE FILM/VIDEO FESTIVAL through film screenings, workshops, lectures, debates, D E C EMBER, 2016 exhibitions and innovations which are shaping this festival International Festival of New Film and Video into a form that connects and brings together people of all Academic Film Center „Students’ City“ Cultural centre professions and ages. Green Fest is the certified holder of Blvd. Zorana Djindjića 179, 11 070 Belgrade, Serbia EFFE label (Europe for festivals, Festivals for Europe) and a Tel: +381 11 26 91 442 member of global Green Film Network. Fax: +381 11 31 93 889 Mob: +381 62 267 830 Belgrade, Serbia E-mail: [email protected] 22th AUTEUR FILM FESTIVAL Website: www.alternativefilmvideo.org N OVEMBER 25TH – D E C E M B E R 4 T H Contact: Miodrag Milošević – festival director, Milan 2016 Milosavljević – organizer NGO “View into the world” Film genre: Alternative and experimental film and video, new Marka Oreškovića 1, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia media Tel/fax: +381 11 38 21 227 Competitive +381 11 38 21 113 E-mail: [email protected] The Alternative Film/Video Festival, established in 1982, is a Website: www.faf.rs festival of Regional & International alternative film and video. Contact: Igor Stanković – festival director The aim of the festival is to document and define trends, to Film genre: Auteur films in general point out values and new creative possibilities in the fields Competitive of alternative film and video. All authors of alternative film and video have the right to participate. The founder and the An event where a vast number of true auteur films are organizer of the festival is the Academic Film Centre, a part presented, many of which become famous or gain cult of the “Student’s city” Cultural centre. status in our country after screenings at this festival. It is a traditional city manifestation for film lovers and the audience Belgrade, Serbia that wants to its horizon. 8th INTERNATIONAL QUEER FILM FESTIVAL - MERLINKA Novi Sad, Serbia D E C EMBER 8 – 12TH 2016 20th EURO-IN FILM International queer film festival MERLINKA D E C EMBER 4TH - 28TH 2016 Makedonska 22/4, 11 000 Belgrade, Serbia Cultural centre of Novi Sad Mob: +381 64 14 27 840 Katolička porta, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +381 21 528 972 Website: www.merlinka.com E-mail: euroinfi[email protected] Contact: Predrag Azdejković– festival director Website: www.euroinfilm.rs Film genre: short, feature and documentary LGBT films Contact: Djordje Kaćanski – editor, Branislava Lovre – Awards: Best queer short film, Annual award for the assistant editor & PR best feature queer film, Annual award for the best queer For contact information regarding Serbian production Film genre: Festival of the European and Independent film documentary companies, distributors, exhibitors, world sales, Non-competitive The International queer film festival “Merlinka” is an LGBT- services, TV companies, organizations, associations, Euro-In Film is a festival which promotes modern European themed film festival organized annually in Belgrade Youth and professional independent films, European film arts and House from 2009, lasting for five days. The festival screens films schools, publications and cinemas, please visit culture; it re-afrms successful films and international events feature, documentary and short films from all over the world www.fcs.rs which boast cultural co-operation and exchange; it promotes, that deal with LGBT issues. records or reveals various creative tendencies in the field of audiovisual production and marks important European and independent film jubilees; finally, it provides a platform for discussions with competent people on films shown and actors’ performance in them.

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