The twelfth edition of the SEE Film Festival, which focuses on Southeast European cinematography, was held from June 1st to 6th. The festival took place in Paris, Berlin and Washington, and online. Among the winners of this year’s awards is the Serbian film “Bullets over Marseille” directed by Gordan Matić, which won three festival medals.
The film was awarded for best screenplay (Vladimir Andrić and Gordan Matić), best director (Gordan Matić) by the American jury of the festival, as well as the award for the best feature film by the European jury Paris-Berlin.
The film follows the trial of terrorists Zvonimir Pospisil, Mijo Kralj and Ivan Rajic, who were accomplices in the assassination of the government of Vlada Chernozemsky, who killed King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, on October 9th, 1934. years in Marseille, France. The court drama is the reconstruction and dramatization of the actual process, trying to get close to the truth of it by also using what was left out of the proceeding, to tell the story of the assassination that marked an epilogue to European peace. Did World War II actually begin in Marseilles on October 9th, 1934, with the shooting of King Alexander and Minister Barthou?
The film was shot in record time, and the shooting was preceded by almost five years of research work in the archives of France, Austria, Russia and Serbia. The film has so far been screened at the Sarajevo Film Festival, “Film Meetings” in Nis, PYIFF in China, at festivals in Meinheim, Bratislava, Anatoliaa, nd has been selected for upcoming editions of the festivals in Montreal and Catania.
