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Vladan Petkovic

Vladan Petkovic covers Serbia and the former Yugoslav states for Screen.

Kosovo makes strides to develop film industry

9-Oct-2012
The fourth edition of the international film festival PriFest in Kosovo’s capital city of Prishtina, from Sept 24-Oct 1, was the right platform to survey the state of film scene in Europe’s youngest country.
Here And There director Lungulov starts work on Monument

3-Oct-2012
Originally titled Monument To Michael Jackson, the black comedy will shoot for six weeks on location in Serbia and Macedonia.
Clip wins Bauer Award, The Delay gets Motovun Propeller

1-Aug-2012
Serbian festival hit receives best regional film award, while the Uruguayan drama wins main international competition at 14th Motovun Film Festival.
On the road to success

5-Jul-2012
South East Europe has seen a boom in production in recent years, with regional hits such as The Parade, but the exhibition and distribution sectors still have to catch up.
Sarajevo means business

15-Jul-2011
The rising stars of south-eastern European cinema will be showcased at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival (July 22-30) in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Balkan answer

30-Jun-2011
With established film infrastructures and fascinating landscapes, Serbia and Croatia have been quietly luring productions away from the nearby centres of Prague and Budapest. Now both are introducing valuable tax incentives to give international producers two competitive new location hubs.
Serbia passes 15% cash rebate for international productions

29-Mar-2011
The Serbian government has passed a decree establishing a new Film Incentive programme.
Zbanic receives $593,580 from Croatia for Love Island

25-Mar-2011
Jasmila Zbanic’s new project Love Island has received $593,580 at the Croatian Audiovisual Centre’s competition for funding of film productions.
Bosnia selects Cirkus Columbia; Bulgaria submits Eastern Plays for Oscars

22-Sep-2010
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s candidate for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards will be Danis Tanovic’s Cirkus Columbia. Kamen Kalev’s Eastern Plays will represent Bulgaria
Grlic's Just Between Us triumphs at Pula

25-Jul-2010
Rajko Grlic’s Just Between Us won seven Golden Arenas at the Croatian national Pula Film Festival, including best film and best director.
Sarajevo preview: Filmmakers join forces

13-Jul-2010
As south-eastern Europe’s film-makers join forces with each other and with producers and financiers from outside the region, Vladan Petkovic explores their rising ambitions and the key role of the Sarajevo Film Festival (July 23-31)
Four world premieres in Sarajevo feature competition

1-Jul-2010
The 16th Sarajevo Film Festival has revealed a nine-strong line-up for its feature film competition.
Croatia includes minority co-productions in Pula national competition

25-Jun-2010
Croatia’s national event Pula Film Festival will for the first time accept minority co-productions for awards consideration, in a separate competition category.
Mission: London breaks Bulgarian records

23-Jun-2010
Dimitar Mitovski’s film has become the highest local grosser ever.
Sarajevo Film Festival to combine fiction and documentary Panorama sidebars

17-Jun-2010
Sarajevo first introduced fiction Panorama in 1999, and Panorama Documentaries in 2001, and now, following the suggestion by festival director Miro Purivatra, they have been combined into one umbrella Panorama.
The Woman With A Broken Nose sweeps unofficial Serbian awards

12-Jun-2010
Srdjan Koljevic’s The Woman With A Broken Nose won five awards in the national competition of Cinema City Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Serbia's Megacom picks up eight Cannes titles

25-May-2010
Distributor takes on Uncle Boonmee, Of Gods and Men,
South Eastern European countries expand joint pavilion in Cannes Marche

5-May-2010
Following the initiative from last year’s Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Serbia the Pavilion will add Marche first-timers Albania, Cyprus and Macedonia.
Soul Food launches as new Eastern Europe-focused sales company

3-May-2010
Belgrade-based company will present its initial slate at Cannes.
Croatian Audiovisual Centre steps up funding for minority co-productions

19-Apr-2010
The funding body will now offer 10% of a film’s budget.
Jasmila Zbanic's On The Path travels round the world

23-Mar-2010
Zbanic’s Berlin competition entry has been sold to 19 territories; local tour support strong home market release.
Vera Glagoleva's One War wins top prize in Sofia

16-Mar-2010
Vera Glagoleva’s Russian film One War won the Grand Prix at the 14th Sofia International Film Festival, which ran March 5 to 14.
Shoot date, new cast for Fiennes’ Coriolanus

10-Mar-2010
Shoot date and new cast members announced for Fiennes’ directorial debut
Anno Saul's The Door wins top prize at Tromso

25-Jan-2010
Anno Saul’s paranormal thriller The Door, starring Mads Mikkelsen, won the top Aurora award at the 20th Tromso International Film Festival in Norway, which ran January 18 -24.
Tamadon Mehran's Bassidji wins Jihlava documentary fest

2-Nov-2009
Tamadon Mehran’s Bassidji won the Opus Bonum at the Jilhlava International Documentary Film Festivall in the Czech Republic, which closed on November 1.
Dolan’s I Killed My Mother wins Zagreb

26-Oct-2009
Xavier Dolan’s I Killed My Mother scooped the Golden Pram at the seventh Zagreb Film Festival after also picking up the CICAE and SADC prizes. The festival closed on Sunday (October 25).
Igor Sterk’s 9:06 sweeps Slovenian awards

5-Oct-2009
Igor Sterk’s 9:06 won nine Vesna awards at the 12th Slovenian Film Festival in Portoroz (October 1-3), including best film, director and screenplay.
Croatia sends Donkey to the Oscars

25-Sep-2009
Antonio Nuic’s Donkey, one of the hits of this summer’s Pula International Film Festival, has been chosen as Croatia’s entry to the foreign-language Academy Award.
Serbia sends Saint George to do battle at the Oscars

23-Sep-2009
Srdjan Dragojevic’s Saint George Shoots The Dragon has been put forward as Serbia’s entry for the foreign-language Oscar after concerns that its first choice - Darko Lungulov’s Here And There - contained to much English dialogue.
Serbia reconsiders Oscar selection over English dialogue concerns

21-Sep-2009
Serbia is reconsidering its decision to submit Darko Lungulov’s Here And There as its nominee for foreign-language Oscar over concerns about the level of English dialogue it contains.
Ordinary People wins Sarajevo

21-Aug-2009
Cannes Critics Week entry Vladmir Perisic’s Ordinary People has scooped the Heart of Sarajevo award at the city’s 15th film festival.
The long road back

4-Aug-2009
The six territories formed after the break-up of Yugoslavia still face plenty of challenges in terms of film distribution and exhibition, but Vladan Petkovic sees signs of optimism on the eve of the Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia (Aug 12-20).
Belgrade's Megacom picks up Cannes winners

27-May-2009
Belgrade-based distributor Megacom Film has acquired rights to a raft of Cannes competition winners including Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner, The White Ribbon, for Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
Wrong Rosary wins Crossing Europe

27-Apr-2009
Turkish director Mahmut Fazil Coskun’s Wrong Rosary has won the European Competition at the 6th Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz.
Belgrade documentary fest kicks off with private funding

10-Apr-2009
The new Beldocs, the Belgrade International Feature Documentary Festival, opened on April 7 with the world premiere of Goodbye, How Are You’, the new film by Serbian film-maker Boris Mitic, best known for his 2003 festival hit Pretty Dyana. James Marsh’s Oscar winner Man on Wire followed. The festival wraps on April 13 with awards in the regional and international competitions. Organised by independent production and distribution ...
Muezzin world premiere to open Crossing Europe Film Festival

9-Apr-2009
The 6th Crossing Europe Film Festival, held in Linz on April 20-26, will open with the world premiere of Sebastian Brameshuber’s documentary, Muezzin.
USAID invites international film productions to Serbia

18-Mar-2009
A new website to promote Serbia as a location for international co-productions has been launched by Film In Serbia, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) project set up to promote Serbia to the international filmmaking community.
Serbia - Saving grace

23-Jan-2009
"Serbia is currently the most competitive filming location in Europe," says Spanish-born producer Antoni Sole. "Crews are skilled and experienced, with an excellent knowledge of English and are much cheaper than those in Bulgaria or Romania. The facilities are also of high quality."
Croatian Audio-Visual Center awards $5m across 17 projects

27-Nov-2008
The Croatian Audio-Visual Center has selected 17 feature film projects for financing.
Belgian trio's Rumba wins in Zagreb

28-Oct-2008
Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy' s Rumba won the main prize and $6,250 (Euros 5,000) at the sixth Zagreb Film Festival, which ran from October 18-25.
USAID helps put Serbia back on map

24-Oct-2008
The news that River Road Entertainment had selected Serbia as the location for shooting Coriolanus, a $10m project to star and be directed by Ralph Fiennes, surprised many in Serbia. While this is perhaps the most tangible indication that Serbia is re-emerging as a cost-effective destination for international production, it was also a result of dedicated work by a US programme to reignite the country's film sector.
Snow, Rumba and Synecdoche, New York, in Zagreb competition

16-Oct-2008
The Zagreb Film Festival has announced the films in competition for its sixth edition.
Rodrigo Prieto wins Golden Camera 300 in Macedonia for Lust, Caution

6-Oct-2008
Rodrigo Prieto won the Golden Camera 300, at the 29th International Cinematographers' Film Festival in Macedonia (Sept 27-Oct 4) for his work on Ang Lee's Lust, Caution.
Slovenia enters Rooster's Breakfast in Oscar race

26-Sep-2008
Marko Nabersnik's love story is submitted by The Slovenian Union of Film Workers to represent Slovenia as best foreign film at the next Academy Awards.
Bosnia and Herzegovina submits Snow to Oscars

24-Sep-2008
Aida Begic's Snow has been chosen by the Association of Film Workers of Bosnia and Herzegovina as its submission for the best foreign language film at the 81st Academy Awards. The film has already won this year's Critics' Week prizeat the Cannes Film Festival.
No One's Son enters the Oscar race for Croatia

22-Sep-2008
Ostojic's No One's Son has been nominated as Croatia's entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar despite not having an official distributor.
Serbia adds Markovic's The Tour to the Oscar poll

22-Sep-2008
The Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences has chosen Goran Markovic's The Tour as its submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards.
Serbia adds Markovic's The Tour to the Oscar poll

22-Sep-2008
The Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences has chosen Goran Markovic's The Tour as its submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards.
Fiennes to direct River Road's Coriolanus in Serbia

4-Sep-2008
River Road Entertainment will film a modern-day version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus in Serbia. Ralph Fiennes will direct and play the lead in the film and was part of a USAID group that evaluated Serbia as a location for shooting this film in July.The film is a tragedy based on the life of the legendary Roman leader, Gaius Martius Coriolanus in modern times. Filming will start in March 2009. 'What this means for Serbia is ...
CineLink announces best-pitch awards

26-Aug-2008
CineLink, the industry section of the Sarajevo Film Festival, announced its awards for the best projects pitched in the southeastern Europe co-production market. The EAVE scholarship went to Serkan Cakarer, producer of the Turkish project Broken Mussels, from director Seyeftin Tokmak. Broken Mussels received the ARTE Sarajevo Film Festival award. The Magic Box service award to Romanian ...
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Out of the rubble

15-Aug-2008
Now the most important festival in the Balkans, the Sarajevo Film Festival was launched in 1995 during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It began by screening a selection of films from the Edinburgh and Locarno festivals in Sarajevo's Obala Arts Centre which, perhaps surprisingly given the circumstances, proved very popular.
Sarajevo lines up shorts jury; Kevin Spacey to attend fest

7-Aug-2008
The jury of the 14th Sarajevo Film Festival's short films competition will be comprised of Michael J. Werner, co-chairman of Fortissimo Films; Sejla Kamerlic, artist and filmmaker whose short film What Do I Know had premiere at last year's Venice Corto Cortissimo, and won the best short film award at the fifth Zagreb Film Festival; and Jay Jeon, selector of Pusan Film Festival.
Silent Light wins at Motovun

4-Aug-2008
Carlos Reygadas's Silent Light won the Motovun Propeller, the main prize of the 10th Motovun Film Festival, which wrapped Aug 1. The festival favourite and Cannes jury award winner was named Best Film by Slovenian actress Milena Zupancic, British director Pawel Pawlikowski and Pavle Levi, professor of film studies at the Stanford University. The A to A award for the best film from the region from Austria to Albania went to the winner ...
No One's Son sweeps Croatian national awards

27-Jul-2008
Arsen Anton Ostojic's No One's Son picked up six of the 16 Golden Arena awards at the 55th Pula Film Festival, including best film, best director and best actor.
Council of Europe sponsors Sarajevo's main award

25-Jul-2008
The Council of Europe has become the partner of the Sarajevo Film Festival and sponsor of the 'Heart of Sarajevo' award for the best feature film.
Sarajevo competition to include Blaz Kutin world premiere

24-Jul-2008
The 14th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has announced its feature and short films competition. The 10 features competing include one world premiere - Slovenian Blaz Kutin's We've Never Been To Venice -plus seven international premieres.
Film Center Serbia shares $2.7m between nine projects

9-Jul-2008
The Film Center Serbia, whose board is now headed by Emir Kusturica, has chosen nine projects to co-finance. Seven projects selected for financing of production are feature films and one feature documentary, while one is a feature in post-production.
Sarajevo Panorama Documentaries include Waltz With Bashir

7-Jul-2008
The 14th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has announced the documentary Panorama programme. 'Provocation, access, aesthetics, and the success of their synthesis are the chief selection criteria,' says programmer Howard Feinstein. The selection includes a double feature of 'Experimental American Leftie Films' and Cannes Palme D'Or nominee Waltz With Bashir.
Motovun festival focuses on Russia

7-Jul-2008
The 10th Motovun Film Festival (Jul 28-Aug 1) has announced competition programme, juries and this year's partner country- Russia, honouring 100 years of Russian film.
The Croatian National Festival announces competition

27-Jun-2008
The Croatian National Festival in Pula, Istria, will take place from July 19-26. This will be the 55th edition of the event that used to be the national festival of former Yugoslavia.
Ballast wins Grand Prix at first Novi Sad festival

27-Jun-2008
Lance Hammer's Ballast won the Grand Prix of the first International Festival of Film and New Media- Cinema City in Novi Sad, Serbia (Jun 14-21), worth $15,000. In the competition for the Grand Prix were all feature films of the festival, including the Serbian competition, where the best film award worth $8,000 went to Stefan Arsenijevic's Berlin entry and best director winner at Cottbus, Sofia and Wiesbaden Love And Other Crimes.
Snow to open Sarajevo with Ceylan president of the jury

24-Jun-2008
The 14th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has announced that Cannes Critics Week Grand Prix winner Snow by Bosnian Aida Begic will officially open the festival at the Heineken Open Air with capacity of 3,000 seats.
Serbia gets two competitive festivals in Novi Sad and Sopot

13-Jun-2008
After last year's first National Film Festival of Serbia which was held in Novi Sad, organized by Film Center Serbia under the concept of Cinema City, in co-operation with lauded music festival Exit, a complete confusion started when Film Center Serbia left the concept of Cinema City to Exit and decided to organize its own National Film Festival in Sopot, 30 kilometers south of Belgrade.
12-Jun-2008
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced that along with the Heart of Sarajevo Awards, itsCompetition Programme will for the first time compete for a FIPRESCI (Federation Internationale de la Presse Cinematographique) award.
Talking Wolf starts shoot for Serbia's first zombie film

5-Jun-2008
The new Serbian independent production company Talking Wolf Productions (TWP), which focuses on action and horror genre films, is planning its first feature, Zone Of The Dead.The project, which is co-produced with Pink Film International Studios (the first private large-scale studio in Serbia), Viktorija Film, Italy's Trees Pictures and Spain's ABS Production, started principal photography on May 16.The film is directed by Milan Todorovic and co-written by Vukota ...
Charly wins top award at Crossing Europe

28-Apr-2008
French director Isild de Besco won the main European Competition award for Charly at the fifth Crossing Europe Film Festival. The win is her second in Linz, following Half Price in 2005. The prize, worth $15,660 (Euros 10,000), was presented by a jury comprised of Swiss film critic Catherine Ann Berger; Rastislav Steranka, co-founder of International Film Festival Cinematik in Piestany, Slovakia; ...
Sarajevo's CineLink adds Austria to regional co-production market

21-Apr-2008
The 14th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 15-23) has announced the selections for CineLink, its regional co-production market created in co-operation with Rotterdam's CineMart. The market will take place from Aug 20-23 and the 15 projects will be divided in two groups: CineLink and CineLink+.
Bosnia and Herzegovina gets second international festival

17-Apr-2008
The first Banja Luka International Film Festival (BLIFF), only the second international film festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina after Sarajevo and the first in Republika Srpska (the Serbian entity within the country), will take place from May 2-9.The inaugural event will present over a hundred films in seven programmes, including three competitions- feature, documentary and student films. Other sections are Peace and Tolerance, Film and Laughter, Women Directors, Festival Favourites ...
Sarajevo selects five low-budget short projects for City of Film

4-Mar-2008
Sarajevo Film Festival's Talent Campus project Sarajevo City of Film has selected five low-budget short film projects for the new initiative from the Bosnian Government and its Ministry of Culture and Sports.
Belgrade Meetings boost projects from Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Serbia

3-Mar-2008
The third Belgrade Industry Meetings, also known as B2B (Business to Belgrade) took place this weekend as a part of the 36th Belgrade International Film Festival FEST(Feb 22- Mar 2).
Valchanov's Which Way Today to open Sofia festival

3-Mar-2008
The 12th Sofia International Film Festival (March 6-16) will present 100 feature films, 20 documentaries and 60 shorts in 11 programmes. Bulgarian Rangel Valchanov's Which Way Today, the legendary director's first film in 14 years will open the festival, and Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven will close it.
Emir Kusturica launches new Kustendorf Film Festival in Serbia

9-Jan-2008
Emir Kusturica has announced a new international film festival to be held in his villageDrvengrad at the mountain Mokra Gora in the Southwest of Serbia. The first Kustendorf Film Festival will be held Jan 14-21, organised by Kusturica's production company Rasta Film International and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture of Serbia.
Zvyagintsev wins second Zagreb honour

29-Oct-2007
Andrei Zvyagintsev's Cannes entry The Banishment (Izgnanie) has taken the best feature film award at the fifth Zagreb Film Festival.
Milic, Menzel's films share top prize at Bitola festival

3-Oct-2007
At the 28th International Cinematographers Film Festival in Bitola, Macedonia (Sept 25-30), cinematographers Dragan Markovic and Jaromir Sofr shared the Golden Camera 300 award for their work on Croatian Kristijan Milic's The Living And The Dead and Czech Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England, respectively.
Croatia selects Svilicic's Armin for Oscar consideration

25-Sep-2007
The Croatian Association of Film Makers has chosen Ognjen Svilicic's Armin as its foreign language submission for the Academy Awards.
The Trap and Short Circuits enter foreign Oscar race

24-Sep-2007
The Serbian Academy of Film Arts and Sciences has selected Srdan Golubovic's The Trap (Klopka) for the Oscar race. The Serbian-German-Hungarian co-production is a thriller about a man who decides to take on a hitman's task in order to be able to pay for a life-saving operation for his son. It has picked up a number of international awards, including the Grand Prix at Sofia.
Bosnia and Herzegovina adds It's Hard To Be Nice to Oscar list

24-Sep-2007
The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Association of Film Makers chose Srdjan Vuletic's It's Hard To Be Nice (Tesko Je Biti Fin) as the country's foreign language submission for the Academy Awards.
Lustig, Petritsky to receive special awards at Bitola festival

20-Sep-2007
The 28th International Cinematographers Film Festival 'Manaki Brothers' in Bitola, Macedonia (Sept 25-30) has announced that Croatian producer Branko Lustig will receive the festival's 'Golden Camera 300' award for outstanding contribution to the world cinema. Veteran Lustig produced Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and Ridley Scott's Gladiator.
Sarajevo's CineLink gives out record $68,000 funding

28-Aug-2007
In addition to expanding its selection to projects with some financing in place, the Sarajevo Film Festival's co-production market CineLink has secured record funding of $68,150 (Euros 50,000) in its fifth edition.
A Man's Fear Of God takes best feature prize at Sarajevo

28-Aug-2007
Ozer Kiziltan's Turkish-German production A Man's Fear Of God (Takva) won the Heart of Sarajevo award for the best feature film at the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 17-25).
Motovun gives top prize to Shaul's Sweet Mud

29-Jul-2007
At the ninth Motovun Film Festival (Jul 23-27) in Istria, Croatia, the jury led by Istvan Szabo gave the main prize to Israeli-German-Japanese feature Sweet Mud (Adama Meshuga'at) by Dror Shaul.Each of the jury members had their own special mentions, so the Serbian director Misa Radivojevic chose Naomi Kawase's Cannes Grand Prize Winner The Mourning Forest (Mogari No Mori), Albanian director Kujtim ...
Sarajevo Film Festival announces full competition

26-Jul-2007
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced the competition programme of its 13th edition, running from Aug 17 to 25. The feature film competition will include two world premieres, Macedonian-Slovenian-Belgian-French co-production I Am From Titov Veles (Jas Sum Od Titov Veles) by Teona Mitevska and Bosnian-Slovenian-Serbian-German-UK It's Hard To Be Nice (Tesko Je Biti Fin) by Srdjan Vuletic, which will be the opening film of the festival.
Croatia's Pula fesival starts Adriatic market programme

16-Jul-2007
The 54th Pula Film Festival (July 12-21), the national Croatian festival, is this year starting a regional programme to present work from the Adriatic region countries: Italy, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania.The programme, July 16-21, will have a pure market character and will be out of competition.In 2008. at the 55th edition of the festival, the Adriatic Film Market will become a larger special event. Eva Zaoralova, the artistic ...
Jeremy Irons to lead 13th Sarajevo festival jury

13-Jul-2007
Jeremy Irons will be the president of the jury of the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 17-25). The festival has also revealed its Documentary Panorama programme selected by Howard Feinstein, who said: 'The popular Panorama Documentaries, programme launched in 2001, strand covers the whole world except for regional works, with all filmmakers present to discuss their films. Provocation, access, aesthetics, and the success of their synthesis are the chief selection criteria.'
Belle Epoque leads prizes at first Film Festival of Serbia

10-Jul-2007
At the first national Film Festival of Serbia in Novi Sad (July 3-8), Nikola Stojanovic's Belle Epoque picked up the Grand Prix for the best film, as well as awards for best actress, music, make-up and art direction. The film about the period from 1910-1914 in Sarajevo had been shot in the wake of the war in former Yugoslavia in 1990 and was in post-production until this year.
Serbia to host first national film festival with two competitions

28-Jun-2007
Film Center Serbia and State of Exit, the company responsible for creating huge European music festival Exit, are organising the first Film Festival of Serbia, to be held July 3-8 in Novi Sad.
Vuletic to open Sarajevo Film Festival

15-Jun-2007
Bosnian director Srdjan Vuletic's It's Hard To Be Nice will open the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (August 17-25).It is his second feature, after the Rotterdam, Brussels and Sofia prize-winner Summer In The Golden Valley in 2004. Screenings of Sam Garbarski's Irina Palm and Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven have been confirmed, as well as Akin's ...
Ring of truth

1-Jun-2007
The Austrian auteur tells Vladan Petkovic why blurring the line between fact and fiction is the hallmark of his work.
Palme d'Or winner: Emir Kusturica

17-May-2007
Born in Sarajevo in 1954, double Palme d'Or winner Emir Kusturica won the Palme d'Or with When Father Was Away On Business in 1985 and Underground in 1995. He returns to the Competition this year for the fifth time with Promise Me This and was also jury president in 2005.
Berlinale expands Talent Campus to Sarajevo in August

15-May-2007
The Sarajevo Film Festival will work with the Berlinale to launch the first Sarajevo Talent Campus, a new educational programme dedicated to young filmmakers from South-Eastern Europe.
Sarajevo CineLink includes new projects from Kocsis and Zalica

20-Apr-2007
The 13th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 17-25) has announced new plans for this year's regional co-production market CineLink, created in co-operation with Rotterdam's CineMart. For 2007, 15 out of 60 submitted new projects will participate and will be divided in two groups, CineLink and CineLink+.
Belgrade festival attracts record attendance

4-Mar-2007
The beleagured Serbian film industry was boosted by a strong 35th Belgrade International Film Festival.Local cinema-going has suffered recently with attendance dropping 42% year-on-year in 2006, with just 40 theatres remaining.The Belgrade event, closed by Nanni Moretti's The Caiman, by contrast attracted a record 100,000 admissions to see about 80 films.In the festival's competitive sections, Djamshed Usmonov's ...
Belgrade starts competition for Europe Out Of Europe sidebar

20-Feb-2007
The 35th Belgrade International Film Festival FEST (Feb 23-Mar 4) will open with Berlinale Forum entry The Trap (Klopka) by Serbian Srdan Golubovic.
Belgrade's Beograd re-opens seven cinemas today

2-Feb-2007
After two and a half months of employee strikes over unpaid salaries, poor conditions of work, terrible state of the cinemas and frozen status at the National Agency for Privatization, leading Serbian exhibitor, state-owned Beograd Film has decided to re-open seven of its 14 theaters in the key city Belgrade today. The decision was made after the Agency for Privatization announced the tender for sale of the company for Feb 16.
Croatian box office sees substantial progress for 2006

23-Jan-2007
Healthy 2006 Croatian box office figures have gone some way to compensate for slumps in other regions of the former Yugoslavia. Serbia and Montenegro, its biggest territory and richest market, saw a disastrous 43% decline in admissions and 36% in box office revenues in 2006 from 2005, while Croation figures are on the rise.
Grbavica tops Bosnia and Herzegovina's 2006 box office

23-Jan-2007
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a particularly difficult market for analysis because until recently there have been no BO reports compiled exclusively for the region. Instead, the box office results were split between Serbia and Croatia.
Pirates tops 2006 Slovenian box office

23-Jan-2007
Healthy box office figures reveal 10 percent growth in Slovenia
Serbian 2006 box office takings down by 36%, admissions drop 43%

11-Jan-2007
The first estimates of Serbian-Montenegrin box-office in 2006 show the biggest decline since the economic embargo imposed by the UN Security Council from 1992 to 1995. From January to November, Serbian theaters sold 1.52m admissions, falling 43% from 2005's 2.65m 2 and earning a total gross of about $4.5m (SD306m), which is 36% down from $7.7m (SD477m) last year. As the value of 1 US dollar went down from 71.39 Serbian dinars in January to 57.56 in December, and average ticket price jumped ...
Belgrade Auteur festival in controversy over Summer Palace

30-Nov-2006
The New Festivalof Auteur's Films (Nov 28- Dec 3) in Belgrade was supposed to open with Lou Ye's Summer Palace but the screening wascanceled after intervention from the Chinese Embassy.
Serbian exhibition in crisis as Beograd shuts 8 cinemas

23-Nov-2006
The leading Serbianexhibitor, state-owned Beograd Film has decided to close eight cinemas in thedowntown area of the key city which accounts for 50% of Serbia's overall box office. The board of thecompany's union announced a strike because of unpaid salaries, inadequate workconditions and poorly equipped theaters as a consequence of low attendance,which has hit rock bottom this year.
Serbians add Tomorrow Morning to Oscar pool

27-Sep-2006
Spring Break shoot to continue in Croatia

22-Sep-2006
Richard Shepard's Spring Break In Bosnia started principal photography on locationsin Sarajevo on Sept 12. Financed by QED International and Intermedia, the film is produced by Mark Johnson and Scott Kroopf and stars Richard Gere, Jesse Eisenberg, Terrence Howard, James Brolin and Diane Kruger.
Sarajevo's CineLink winners include Bosnian Nedzad Begovic

29-Aug-2006
Das Fraulein wins best film at Sarajevo festival

28-Aug-2006
Andrea Staka's Das Fraulein has added the Heart ofSarajevo Award for best film at the 12th Sarajevo FilmFestival to its Golden Leopard win at Locarno.
Sarajevo unveils documentary competition and Panorama

14-Aug-2006
The12th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 18-26) has announced further details of thisyear's programme.
Sarajevo sets competition films and jury

2-Aug-2006
The 12th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug18-26) has announced its competition programme andmain jury. Eightcompetition films will compete for the awards of best film, special jury award,best actor and best actress: Das Fraulein, Switzerland/Germany/Bosnia andHerzegovina, dir: Andrea Staka
Motovun honours Look Both Ways and We Feed The World

30-Jul-2006
Festival hit Look BothWays by Australian director SarahWatt took the main Propeller Award at the eighth Motovun Film Festival (July24-28) in Istria, Croatia. Both the Amnesty International Human Rights andFIPRESCI awards went to Erwin Wagenhofer's ambitious documentary We Feed theWorld.
Gravehopping takes top prize at Serbian festival

23-Jul-2006
Sarajevo festival to open with 12:08 East of Bucharest

6-Jul-2006
CineLink selects 11 projects for 2006 market

28-Apr-2006
CineLink, the Sarajevo Film Festival'sco-production market for South Eastern Europe created in 2002 in co-operation with Rotterdam's CineMart, hasselected 11 projects for this year.
Border Post unites former Yugoslav states

26-Apr-2006
Croatian director Rajko Grlic has scored a highly significant hit throughout the former Yugoslavian states with Border Post (Karaula).
Wim Wenders closes Belgrade Film Festival (FEST)

7-Mar-2006
The BelgradeInternational Film Festival, this year subtitled FEST Forward, was closed on March 5 by special guest Wim Wenders with a screening of his Don't Come Knocking.
CineLink announces three award winners

1-Dec-2005
CineLink, the Sarajevo FilmFestival's co-production market for projects from Albania, Bosnia andHerzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia and Serbia andMontenegro, had its third edition at this year's, 11th festival (Aug 19-27,2005). CineLink has announced the winners with thetotal prize fund of $58,5000 (50,000 Euros) provided by theSarajevo Film Festival, BHT1, Hubert Bals Fund, Kodakand Austrian film lab Synchro.
Lady Zee takes top Sarajevo honours

28-Aug-2005
The 11th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 19-27) endedon Saturday night with main award going to Bulgarian film Lady Zee (Leidi Zi) by Georgi Bulgjerov, out of 11 films incompetition.
Sarajevo festival kicks off in confident mood

19-Aug-2005
The 11th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 19-27)kicks off today with a film line-up and guest list that suggests it has becomethe most important festival in South East Europe.
Death wins again at Motovun Film Festival

2-Aug-2005
Sarajevo hosts four world premieres in competition

1-Aug-2005
The Sarajevo Film Festival,widely recognized as the biggest film festival in South East Europe, hasannounced the competition lineup for its 12th edition which runs Aug19 to 27.
Alexander Payne called to festival jury service again

28-Jun-2005
Film-maker Alexander Paynewill preside over the inaugural short film jury at the 11th Sarajevo Film Festivalin August.
Cinelink unveils Balkan project shortlist

15-Apr-2005
CineLink,Sarajevo Film Festival's annual script development program and co-productionmarket for feature-length fiction films, has announced this year's selection.
Wild Bunch pair win Serbian funding

25-Mar-2005
The SerbianMinistry of Culture has announced the winners of this year's film fundingcompetition, with two films backed by France's Wild Bunch receiving state aid.
Belgrade festival weathers rampant piracy

9-Mar-2005
The 33rdBelgrade International Film Festival FEST wrapped on March 5 with a screeningof Theo Angelopoulos' Trilogy 1: TheWeeping Meadow.
Techine, Angelopulous book-end Belgrade festival

25-Feb-2005
Techine, Angelopulous book-end Belgrade festival

25-Feb-2005
The 33rd BelgradeInternational Film Festival kicks off on Jan 25 with Andre Techine's LesTemps Qui Changent and will beopened by the film's star Catherine Deneuve.
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16-Feb-2005
Serbia and Montenegro has new box-office champ

2-Feb-2005
SrdjanDragojevic's We Are Not Angels 2 (Mi Nismo Andjeli 2) has scored thebiggest opening of all time in Serbia and Montenegro.
BVI returns to Serbia and Montenegro

8-Dec-2004
BIV is returningto Serbia and Montenegro a year after Pirates Of The Caribbean wasreleased, in October 2003 by the company's then principal partner Bandur Film.
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Kusturica looking at box office Miracle in Serbia

24-Sep-2004
Emir Kusturica's Life Is A Miracle is to open on a huge50 prints in his home territory of Serbia and Montenegro on Sept 30.The film willopen in 40 cities and towns and will be distributed by Metro.The number ofprints is by far the biggest ever in the territory. By comparison, films like Spider-Man 2 or The Lord Of The Rings went out on no more than 15 prints.
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8-Sep-2004
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2-Sep-2004
Serbia and Montenegro faces film piracy challenge

9-Aug-2004
The weekends ofAug 16-18 and 23-25 were the worst in terms of admissions and revenues inSerbia and Montenegro since 1997. The first saw ticket sales of 11,872($31,249) for the whole territory, while the latter had even less: only 11,120spectators who spent $29,145. Spider-Man2 sold only 4,744 tickets in its second weekend,
Motovun film fest maintains youth appeal

6-Aug-2004
The sixth editionof the Motovun Film Festival took place from July 26-30 in the town of Istria,Croatia. Unlike most world festivals that are more market-oriented, what setsthis festival apart is its focus on presenting films to film-lovers as well as toprofessionals, as well as featuring a large number of side events such asexhibitions, film schools, workshops, all kinds of presentations, concerts andparties that attract a lot of young people. Actually, some 70% of the audienceswere ...
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17-Jun-2004
UIP returns to Serbia and Montenegro

16-Jun-2004
After a year'sabsence, UIP releases are to be handled by a new distributor in Serbia andMontenegro.
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3-Jun-2004
Serbia launches film industry rescue scheme

11-May-2004
In abid to stem the decline of the local film industry, the creation of the FilmCenter of Serbia was announced last week. "Serbian cinema is on its death bed,but this is not a funeral. This the celebration for the opening of its new ER",said Djordje Milicevic, founder and president of the Center.
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24-Mar-2004
Despite its continuous decline (56% this weekend), Robbery Of The Third Reich is still taking up most of the Serbian-Montenegrin box office. After this weekend's 9,907 admissions, the local blockbuster has now grossed a total of $754,596 for Mirius.
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18-Mar-2004
In spite of its gradual decline, Robbery Of The Third Reich is still stealing most of the Serbian-Montenegrin box office. In its fourth weekend, the local blockbuster sold another 20,297 admissions and remained unchallenged in the top position with a total gross of $669,716 for Mirius.
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Belgrade film festival becomes theatrical distributor

18-Feb-2004
The Belgrade International Film Festival has become a theatrical distributor by acquiring rights for Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia to Berlinale Golden Bear winner Head On.
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2-Feb-2004
As expected, The Return Of The King dominated the Serbian-Montenegrin chart for the fifth weekend in a row - attracting 5,451 tickets (down 50%) to add to its massive cumulative gross of $622,213 for Tuck.
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22-Jan-2004
The trio at the top of the Serbian-Montenegrin chart has not changed since the last weekend in spite of two new openers.
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15-Jan-2004
No big news at the Serbian-Montenegrin market in the second weekend of 2004. Tuck is on top with Return Of The King which sold another 15,328 admissions to total of 138,459 and massive cumulative gross of $533,135 in only three weeks.
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9-Jan-2004
Jackie Chan probably deserved better than the January 1 release date given to his latest film The Medallion. The film didn't stand much chance of competing with some well-known titles that have been around for the entire holiday season.
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12-Dec-2003
There seems to be nothing new at Serbian-Montenegrin film market. After last week's opening of Tuck's Master And Commander: Far Side Of The World in first position, the season's favourite Small World is back on top with 194,170 admissions and total gross of $458,857.
The Return, Since Otar Left share top prize at Belgrade

9-Dec-2003
Russian director Andrej Zvjagintsev's The Return and Julie Bertucelli's Since Otar Left have shared the top prize at the 10th Belgrade International Festival of Auteur Films (Nov 23-30).
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4-Dec-2003
As 2003 comes to an end, the domination of local product is starting to weaken, except for the current absolute favourite Small World, which remained in second position in its eighth weekend. Despite a 45% decline, the road comedy has now grossed a total of $422,083.
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6-Nov-2003
Milos Radovic's Small World has crossed the 100,000 admissions mark after enjoying the fourth weekend in a row on the top of the chart. The local road comedy has now grossed $259,261.
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31-Oct-2003
Milos Petricic's Almost Totally Ordinary Story opened last weekend at the third position in its home territory. The urban comedy, featuring a cast of newcomers sold 3,448 tickets to earn $9,020 for distributor Pro Vision.
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23-Oct-2003
In their second weekend at the chart, the latest local release Small World and Pirates Of The Caribbean held onto the two top positions in spite of SWAT opening.
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21-Oct-2003
Milos Radovic's Small World (Mali Svet) opened this prolonged weekend with 15,757 admissions, grossing $48,547 from Thursday to Sunday for distributor Delta Video, thanks to a high average admission price.
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10-Oct-2003
Three week in a row champion LXG remains at the top of the chart despite competition last weekend from Bad Boys II and Matchstick Men, from the same distributor Tuck.
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3-Oct-2003
Srdjan Karanovic's Loving Glances (Sjaj U Ocima) played in second position last weekend, its second, for distributor Delta Video. Despite screening on two more screens this was not enough for the 1995 Belgrade-set story about refugees featuring actors from all around former Yugoslavia to beat Tuck's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen which held the lead in its second week and has sold 25,522 admissions on eight prints after 11 days on release.
Hit Serbian producer readies Zamfir's Zona follow up

22-Sep-2003
Serbian outfit Dream Company, which produced local hit Zamfir's Zona, is producing a new film, a World War II comedy The Robbery Of The Third Reich.
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18-Sep-2003
French blockbuster Taxi 3 parked in the number one spot in its second week, selling 7,503 admissions improving 35% on its launch for distributor Pro Vision.
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4-Sep-2003
Already the most successful local film ever, Zamfir's Zona took another huge step forward this week with an incredible 76% rise, putting it in second place by admissions (9,722) after Daddy Day Care's 12,025. Apparently, Serbs and Montenegrins are still only interested in this particular product. However, due to significantly lower ticket price, it came in fourth in terms of revenues.
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29-Aug-2003
This week marks the return of the greatest local hit ever, last year's Zamfir's Zona which has already attracted over 1.5 million admissions.
Croatia gets its first multiplex

19-Jun-2003
Blitz-Cinestar, a new joint venture between Croatian distributor, Blitz Film & Video Distribution and German exhibitor, Cinestar/Kieft & Kieft, is to open Croatia's first multiplex this autumn.
France supports Serbian film archive

18-Jun-2003
While many national film archives are coming under financial pressure, Serbia and Montenegro's Yugoslav Film Archive is to be upgraded to become one of the most sophisticated in the world.
Serbian black comedy CiviLife for Belgrade shoot

18-Jun-2003
Principal photography on Serbian-German-French-Dutch co-production CiviLife is due to start in Belgrade on June 22 for eight weeks.
Belgrade launches short film fund

13-Jun-2003
The Belgrade City government has formed a Commission for awarding funds for documentary and short films, presided over by the renowned Serbian director Goran Markovic.
Serbian debut wins Karlovy Vary selection

13-Jun-2003
The debut feature film by the young Serbian director Milos Petricic Almost Totally Ordinary Story has been selected for 'East of the West' section of the 38th International Film Festival Karlovy Vary. The urban romantic comedy, written by Dusan Ristic and produced by Premax Group, features a young cast of first-timers. The film'srelease in Serbia and Montenegro is scheduled for October 29.
Belgrade festival announces line-up

17-Feb-2003
The 31st Belgrade International Film Festival will be held from Feb 28 until Mar 9 featuring films that have participated at major world festivals in the past year.
Sinisa Dragin wins top prize at Belgrade

3-Dec-2002
Bertrand Tavernier's Safe Conduct (Laissez-Passer) closed the ninth Belgrade International Festival of Auteur Films on Saturday night.
Zona leads Serbia/Montenegro box office charge

21-Nov-2002
Government initiatives introduced early last year, which were expected to result in large increases in admissions in Serbia and Montenegro, appear to have paid off with the week ending November 10 giving the territory its highest grossing week in history.
MPAA moves to tackle rampant Serbian film piracy

13-Sep-2002
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is planning to fund an anti-piracy programme in Serbia and Montenegro, where it is estimated that 90-95% of films on television and on video are pirated.If funding from the Hollywood studios is forthcoming, the MPAA is also weighing up plans to open an agency in Serbia which, in partnership with local distributors, would help enforce a proposed new local anti-piracy law.The move follows the July launch of an MPAA campaign ...
Serbian local productions unable to repeat 2001's success

19-Jul-2002
While Serbia's local productions regularly outperform Hollywood releases, this year home-grown titles are suffering - despite overall admissions rising 21% year-on-year for the first six months of 2002, from 1,665,245 in 2001 to 2,021,843 tickets sold this year.
Serbian Government introduces national film fund

27-May-2002
The Serbian Government has launched a Euros 1.5m prototype film fund, with six local features receiving an award equivalent to 30% of its budget.
The Son's Room to open Belgrade festival

21-Jan-2002
Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room will open the Belgrade International Film Festival, kicking off a 30th anniversary edition that encompasses such high profile international fare as David Lynch's Mullholland Drive, Steven Soderbergh's Traffic and Baz Lurhmann's Moulin Rouge.
Yugoslavian New Millennium forced to wait

8-Nov-2001
A new Yugoslavian Republic distribution company is struggling to find an opening for its first release: Hanniba,l as all the theaters in the key city of Belgrade (which constitutes 60% of the market) have been reserved until Summer 2002.
A taste for French films

4-Oct-2001
In recent months French productions have found a lucrative niche at the box office of The Federal Republic of Yugolslavia (FRY), which consists of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro, successfully competing with both Hollywood blockbusters and local productions.

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