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Serbian films win several awards at BANEFF in Stockholm

Yesterday, on April 30th, the 10th BANEFF (Balkan Nordic Film Bestival) ended in Stockholm, Sweden. The list of winners of this year’s festival medals also includes several films and filmmakers from Serbia. The best feature film was My Morning Laughter by Marko Đorđević. In the category Women’s Achievements, Anja Pavićević was awarded for her acting […]

The program, juries and Honorary Award winners of the 49th FEST revealed

At the press conference announcing the details of the 49th International Film Festival – FEST, held on Tuesday, April 27, in the Ceremonial Hall of the Belgrade City Assembly, Ivan Karl, Belgrade Secretary for Culture, and the president of the FEST board, Damir Handanović, the director of CEBEF and the vice president of the festival […]

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VRMDŽA FEST 2021

LAG RTANJ has announcing the open call for film submissions for the Fifth International Festival of Tourist-Ecological Documentary Film – VRMDŽA FEST 2021. The competition is open from April 26th to July 1st, 2021. The results of the selection will be announced on July 10, 2021. VRMDŽA FEST 2021 will be held in the second […]

World festival premiere of ‘New Wave’ on 67/68. March Festival

The documentary New Wave – 40 Years Later (Croatia, Serbia / 2021/101 ‘), directed by Nikola Knežević and Olga Kepčija, will have its world festival premiere at this year’s double edition of the March Festival  on 24th of April at 7 pm in the Americana Hall of the Belgrade Youth Center. Croatia Records, as the […]

67th/68th March Festival Opens in Belgrade Youth Center

Assistant Mayor Andreja Mladenović opened the 67th and 68th joint editions of the March Festival – Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival last night at the Belgrade Youth Center. He posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award to composer Zoran Simjanović and presented it to his wife Ljiljana Erić-Simjanović. Mladenović, who is the president of the […]

Landscapes of Resistance by Marta Popivoda at Visions du Réel

This week, more precisely, on April 15th, the 52nd installment of the Visions du Réel Documentary Film Festival (VdR) will begin in Nyon, Switzerland; This year, as part of the festival’s program, 142 films from 58 countries will be screened, 82 of which will have their world premieres and 16 their international premieres at the […]

SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR THE 6TH DOC ‘N’ RHYTHM FESTIVAL

The sixth edition of the Doc’n’Rhythm festival, according to the organizers take place in June 2021, if the epidemiological situation allows, and in accordance with anti-covid measures in force in the Republic of Serbia. In the last year, many important local and regional musical artists have passed away. The sixth edition of the Dok’n ’Ritam […]

Mila Turajlić called to participate in TED Fellows 2021

The list of participants ofthis year’s TED Fellows class has been announced. This time, the program will bring together participants from fourteen countries on five continents, and among those selected is Serbian director and producer Mila Turajlić, author of the notable documentaries Cinema Communisto and The Other Side of Everything. Let us remind you, her […]

Two awards for the film ‘When I’m at Home’ by Ivana Todorović in New York

The Serbian short feature film When I’m Home by Ivana Todorović continues receiving accolades; at the recently concluded, eighth SR Socially Relevant Film Festival in New York, the film won two awards – the Women’s Critics’ Circle Award and the Best Actress Award, for  Milica Stefanović. The film was supported by  Film Center Serbia. The […]

Biljana Tutorov receives grant from Chicken & Egg Pictures

Chicken & Egg Pictures, a leader in supporting women and filmmakers of more atypical gender identities, has announced a list of projects that will participate in their (Egg) Celerator Lab program for 2021. Ten feature-length documentary projects, first or second films, will receive support totaling $ 400,000. Since its founding in 2005, the organization has […]

NEW DATE FOR THE 49th FEST

The Management Board of the Belgrade International Film Festival FEST has reached a decision to postpone the upcoming, 49th edition of the festival, which is now scheduled for May 7th to 16th 2021, on the account of the current epidemiological circumstances. This year’s FEST is being prepared and will take place under the slogan “Back […]