All articles by Vladan Petkovic – Page 14
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Croatian box office sees substantial progress for 2006
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 ...
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Grbavica tops Bosnia and Herzegovina's 2006 box office
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.Since the end of the war in 1996, Serbian and Croatian distributors contracted to Hollywood majors ...
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Pirates tops 2006 Slovenian box office
Healthy box office figures reveal 10 percent growth in Slovenia Box office figures for 2006 show Slovenia is the most gratifying territory in the region in terms of revenues. With a population of two million, 96 active screens, low piracy levels and the fact that it is the only country ...
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Serbian 2006 box office takings down by 36%, admissions drop 43%
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), ...
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Belgrade Auteur festival in controversy over Summer Palace
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.However, after the opening-night screening was cancelled, the festival board has responded to negative reactions from general public and the Helsinki ...
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Serbian exhibition in crisis as Beograd shuts 8 cinemas
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 ...
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Serbians add Tomorrow Morning to Oscar pool
The Serbian Academy ofFilm Arts and Science has selected Oleg Novkovic's Tomorrow Morning for its submission for consideration for the BestForeign Language Film at the Academy Awards.The drama tells the story of a generation of30-somethings who grew up in the nightmare of the war in former Yugoslavia andconfront their past ...
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Spring Break shoot to continue in Croatia
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. Based on Scott Anderson's article ...
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Sarajevo's CineLink winners include Bosnian Nedzad Begovic
The Sarajevo Film Festival'sregional co-production market CineLink has awarded funding to three projects. Each will receive $12,812 (Euros 10,000) in cash provided by partners and $3,203 (Euros 2,500) in services provided by Synchro Studio Vienna. The projects are awardedaccording to criteria of artistic potential and feasibility. The Hubert Bals Fund ...
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Das Fraulein wins best film at Sarajevo festival
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.Marija Skaricic was also named best actress award for her part in the tale of three women from the former Yugoslavia dealing with their past, present ...
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Sarajevo unveils documentary competition and Panorama
The12th Sarajevo Film Festival (Aug 18-26) has announced further details of thisyear's programme. Inaddition to the feature competition announced earlier this month, Sarajevo has announced the 19films in its documentary competition, including six from Bosnia and Herzegovina (see below). The documentary programme will offer a Heartof Sarajevo best documentary award ...
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Sarajevo sets competition films and jury
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 StakaThe Paper WillBe Blue (Hartia Va Fi Albastra), Romania, dir: RaduMunteanKythera, Hungary, dir: Peter ...
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Motovun honours Look Both Ways and We Feed The World
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. Croatian director GoranDukic's Wristcutters won theaudience award and the 'A ...
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Gravehopping takes top prize at Serbian festival
Festival favourite Slovenian Jan Cvitkovic's Gravehopping won the Golden Tower prizefor the best film at the 13th Festival of European Film at Palic,Serbia (July 15-21). The film had already won the Grand Prize at Cottbus, aspecial mention at Ljubljana and best director award at San Sebastian.The Palic Tower for unique ...
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Sarajevo festival to open with 12:08 East of Bucharest
Romanian Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest will openthe 12th Sarajevo Film Festival, the most important festival in the Balkan region.The film won the Camera D'Or at Cannes 2006. This year's Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award goes to renowned UK filmand theatre director Mike Leigh. The award is given in ...
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CineLink selects 11 projects for 2006 market
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. The 2006 CineLink selection is:Alive, written and directed by Artan Minarolli, AlbaniaCircus Fantastikus, written and directed by Janez Burger, SloveniaFrom Belgrade With Love, written and directed ...
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Border Post unites former Yugoslav states
Croatian director Rajko Grlic has scored a highly significant hit throughout the former Yugoslavian states with Border Post (Karaula).Grlicwas one of the most important representatives of the Prague film school whoenjoyed a series of successes with You Only Love Once (1981)and In The Jaws Of Life (1984), and made influential ...
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Wim Wenders closes Belgrade Film Festival (FEST)
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. A retrospective of Wenders'films was shown at the festival and he also opened an exhibition of hisphotographs entitled, Pictures from theSurface of the ...
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CineLink announces three award winners
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, ...
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Lady Zee takes top Sarajevo honours
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. The tragic comedy about an orphan girl won the main Euros25,000 "Heart of Sarajevo" prize, which was awarded by president ofthe ...