All articles by Vladan Petkovic – Page 15
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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 ...
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Sarajevo festival kicks off in confident mood
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. With 162 films, four world premieres and five regionalpremieres and 100 foreign press representatives, Sarajevo in now an essentialplace to be for ...
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Death wins again at Motovun Film Festival
The 7th edition ofMotovun Film Festival in Istria, Croatia (Jul 25-29) ended with a doublevictory for Romanian Cristi Pulu's Deathof Mr. Lazarescu. After winning the main prizeat the 12th Palic Festival of European Film in Serbia and Montenegro(Jul 17-23), the drama took the main award 'Propeller of Motovun' andAmnesty International ...
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Sarajevo hosts four world premieres in competition
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.Over 70 films were submitted to be selected for the 11-film competitionsection, an increase from previous years since Hungary has now been added asone ...
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Alexander Payne called to festival jury service again
Film-maker Alexander Paynewill preside over the inaugural short film jury at the 11th Sarajevo Film Festivalin August.Payne, fresh from heading upthe Un Certain Regard jury at Cannes in May, had previously been announced asthe subject of a retrospective, including talks and workshops, at the event,which runs from August19-27.Veteran Serbian actor ...
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Cinelink unveils Balkan project shortlist
CineLink,Sarajevo Film Festival's annual script development program and co-productionmarket for feature-length fiction films, has announced this year's selection.CineLink's remitis to foster films from the Balkan region with the potential for theatricaldistributionThe jurycomprised Ludmila Cvikova, programmer of the Rotterdam International FilmFestival; Christina Kallas, the artistic director of screenplay developmentfunding programme Balkan ...
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Wild Bunch pair win Serbian funding
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.In total, fourprojects were awarded funding. They are:Mamarosh, by writer/director Momcilo Mrdakovic and a co-production with Cinears(Serbia), Yalla Productions and Wild Bunch (France);Charleston And Vendetta (Carlston Za ...
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Belgrade festival weathers rampant piracy
The 33rdBelgrade International Film Festival FEST wrapped on March 5 with a screeningof Theo Angelopoulos' Trilogy 1: TheWeeping Meadow. The festivalpresented 72 films and sold 76,000 tickets, the same figure as last year.However, this was considered an impressive achievement given that rampantpiracy has caused a major slump in cinema-going in ...
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Techine, Angelopulous book-end Belgrade festival
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. Running until Feb 6, thefestival in the Serbian capital will feature some 80 films across seven sections, in a programmemostly comprising fare from the biggest ...
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Techine, Angelopulous book-end Belgrade festival
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. Running until Feb 6, thefestival will feature some 80 films across seven sections, in a programmemostly comprising fare from the biggest world festivals of ...
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SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO 16 February
After Serbianpolice arrested some 100 dealers with pirated DiVX's and DVD's of We Are NotAngels 2 last week, the reason for the 39% fall-off of greatest local box-office champ of all times became obvious. Nevertheless, theblockbuster continues to break records, and after this weekend's 53,890admissions (total of 440,856) it has ...
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Serbia and Montenegro has new box-office champ
SrdjanDragojevic's We Are Not Angels 2 (Mi Nismo Andjeli 2) has scored thebiggest opening of all time in Serbia and Montenegro. The sequel to his1992 blockbuster achieved 88,526 admissions over the weekend, and with previewssince last Tuesday, grossed $395,120 from a total 124,417 spectators. Despitesnowstorms closing many roads in the ...
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BVI returns to Serbia and Montenegro
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.The localdistributor suffered a financial collapse and until this November, BVI had notreleased a single film in the territory.Now, BVI productis to be handled by Taramount ...
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SERBIA/MONTENEGRO 8 December
Alexander opened this weekend in pole position inSerbia and Montenegro. With only six prints, an unusually low number for apicture of its scope even in such a small territory, Oliver Stone's epic sold16,715 admissions for the weekend, and with previews that started on Tuesday,it has now grossed $110,264 for Mirius.Out ...
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SERBIA/MONTENEGRO 24 November
Localproduct has proven to be favourite of Serbian-Montenegrin audiences once again,with three local films occupying the top three places on this weekend's chart.Srdjan Koljevic's Red Coloured Gray Truck(Sivi kamion crvene boje), Audience Award winner at Montpellier, openedwith 14,029 admissions and cumulative gross of $60,231 for Metro.Aftera run of five weekends ...