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Serbian Films and Minority Co-productions at the Goteborg Film Festival

The 43rd edition of the Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden’s most significant festival, will begin on Friday, 24th of January, and Serbian films and Serbian minority co-productions will be present in in multiple selections and program sections. The Göteborg audiences will thus be able to watch the new feature documentary by Mladen Kovačević; his film Merry Christmas, Yiwu is […]

Several Serbian Films and Coproduction at the Rotterdam Film Festival

The Rotterdam International Film Festival will take place from January 22nd to February 2nd, 2020, and several new Serbian films and Serbian co-productions will be featured on the program, in several sections. My Morning Laughter, the debut feature by writer and director Marko Đorđević, will be shown in the official program Bright Future, a program […]

Dreamland, Serbian-Canadian film at the Rotterdam Film Festival

The Perspectives programme of the 49th Rotterdam International Film Festival (January 22nd – February 2nd) will feature the short film Dreamland by Canadian author Alan Brown, produced as part of the residency program at Alternative Film / Video in Belgrade organized by the Academic Film Center of the Student City Cultural Center in New Belgrade. […]

Malmkrog, a Romanian-Serbian coproduction by Cristi Puiu, to premiere at the Berlin IFF

A new film by the celebrated Romanian film maker Cristi Puiu, made with the support of Film Center Serbia and with the participation of Serbian authors, is set to open a new competition program called “Meetings” at this year’s 70th Berlinale. The Berlinale screening of Malmkrog, based on Vladimir Solovyov’s philosophical treatise “Three Conversations,” was […]

The 32nd edition of the Premiers Plan Film Festival d’Anger kicks off in the city of Angers in the west of France today; the festival is focused on the debut and / or films of young and younger authors, and this edition will see three entries by directors from Serbia. All three films were supported […]

Short Serbian documentaries at the Centre Pompidou

On Monday, 20th of January, starting at 8 pm, the Museum of the Pompidou Center in Paris, as a part of the La Cinémathèque du documentaire,  three short documentaries produced during the Varan Atelier film workshops held in Belgrade will be shown. The Paris Institute for Documentary Film Atelier Varan, founded by Jean Rousse, has […]

MEDIA desk Serbia is pleased to announce that in 2019 users from Serbia, through various calls for project applications, have received the largest support to date from Creative Europe MEDIA sub-programme. Serbia completed its participation in the MEDIA sub-programme in 2019 with a total support of EUR 997,235. This is the largest support that Serbian companies and […]

Light and Shadow, an animated film by Rastko Ćirić, premieres at the Goteborg IFF

The short animated film “Light and Shadows” by Rastko Ćirić will have its world premiere at the upcoming Göteborg Film Festival. It is an adaptation of Goethe’s Faust, in which the main character sells his shadow to the Devil.   Midhat Ajanović says of the film: “Relying on Shadow Theater, Rastko Ćirić reminds us that the birthplace […]

In Praise of Nothing by Boris Mitić tops Mubi 2019 list

In Praise of Nothing by Boris Mitić was the most viewed documentary of 2019 on Mubi, the leading online arthouse film platform. MUBI  offers only 30 films at any given time, from cult classics to contemporary festival favorites, replacing one film every day. In Praise of Nothing is a satirical documentary parable about the positive aspects of nothing, […]

New film project by Darko Lungulov chosen at When East Meets West forum in Trieste

 The projects that will participate in the 10th When East Meets West (WEMW) co-production forum in Trieste have been announced, and among those selected is the project for the Serbian feature film 1970 by director Darko Lungulov. Lungulov’s previous work includes films There and Here and The Monument to Michael Jackson.   The forum will take place […]