On September 6th 2023, Film Center Serbia announced all its public competitions for financing and co-financing projects in cinematography for 2023.
On Monday, September 4, the 4th Merlinka Classic Festival will begin at the Cinematheque Museum in Belgrade, where 25 short, feature and documentary films that have left a deep mark on queer cinematography will be presented.
The famous Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (MoMA) will hold a retrospective of the films of the Yugoslav “Black Wave” from September 7th to 21st, 2023, under the title “Black Wave to White Ray: Yugoslav Film of the 1960s”.
The audience of the Sarajevo Film Festival voted and evaluated the films and series presented in different program units of this year’s edition of the film festival.
The young Serbian actor Jovan Ginić won the “Heart of Sarajevo” award for best actor for his role in the film Lost Country, while the Heart of Sarajevo award for the best documentary film went to Serbian director Nemanja Vojinović for Bottlemen.
The 21st edition of the CineLink Industry Days at the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival concluded with the award ceremony, where projects in various formats and stages of development hailing from Southeast Europe and the MENA region were presented and awarded.
The Heart of Sarajevo award ceremony for the TV series of the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival was held at the “Hills Sarajevo” hotel. Series from Serbia won a total of eight awards in total.
The Slovenian Film Center has announced the results of the competition in the category of minority co-productions. Seven film projects from other countries were supported in the amount of 432 thousand euros.
Yesterday, Dragan Bjelogrlić, the director, was awarded the “Variety Piazza Grande” award for the best film in the “Piazza Grande” selection, as well as the “Pardo Verde Ricola” jury award.
The sixteenth “Leskovac International Festival of Film Directing – LIFFE” will be held from September 14th to 19th.
The documentary “Yugo Goes to America” directed by Filip Grujić, which is currently in production, follows a film crew traveling in an old Yugo across the length of America.
Marko Matović was awarded at the International Festival Imago in Italy, for the music he composed for the film “Spring Song” directed by Natalija Avramović.