Yesterday, the 27th edition of the Author’s Film Festival was announced at a press conference was in Kombank Hall. The festival will take place from November 26 to December 3, 2021, with its headquarters in Belgrade, while, for the first time, 10 more cities across Serbia will showcase parts of this year’s program – Novi Sad, Leskovac, Niš, Bor, Smederevo, Požarevac, Subotica, Lazarevac, Jagodina and Bačka Palanka.
The FAF organization presented this year’s program, which includes over 80 films in as many as 11 program units, one of which will win the award of Professor Vlado Petrić for the most cinematic sequence in a feature film in honor of Slavko Vorkapić. As part of the competition program, 12 titles will be in the race for the Grand Prix of the festival – the award for the best director named in honor of Aleksandar Saša Petrović. Within this selection, the Gordan Mihić award for the best screenplay will also be presented. The main program out of competition will include 8 films, while the Brave Balkans selection will show 11 films, one of which will take the award for the “bravest” film of the Brave Balkans.
Srdan Golubović
Igor Stanković, director of the Author’s Film Festival and Kombank Hall, expressed satisfaction that this year’s festival is being held live and announced that the capacity of the big hall in Kombank Hall has been increased, but that all prescribed health measures will be respected during the festival.
Srdan Golubović, President of the Festival Council, announced at the conference that the opening of the festival will be marked by one important event – the awarding of the Lifetime Achievement Award to director Goran Marković, to whom this year’s festival edition is dedicated, while the festival will be closed with a film byJanko Baljak, and after the screening, a conversation with the author will be held.
Stefan Ivančić
The artistic director of the festival, Srdjan Vučinić, pointed out that the goal of the festival is not to present already well-known authors, except perhaps Sebastian Majze, whose film Final Freedom will be shown in the competition program, and who is already one of the favorites for the best foreign language film at the Academy Awards. The jury of this year’s competition program consists of the French director, musician and photographer Siegfried, our director and screenwriter Bojan Vuletić and Šejla Kamerić – a visual artist and director from Sarajevo.
Maša Seničić, the selector of the Brave Balkans program, announced this year’s program and pointed out that “this is the first time that the festival shows feature films by authors who were on the Brave Balkans program with their short films last year, and that this is proof that the program is progressing. The jury of the Brave Balkans this year consists of Nebojša Jovanović, Jelena Spaić and Ivan Ramljak.
Maša Seničić
This year, for the first time, FAF is introducing a new program unit – Sirovo Raw), which, according to Stefan Ivančić, selector of the Brave Balkans program and a member of the festival council, is an extension of the main program and represents a selection of genre films.
Milena Debeljković
The operative director of the festival, Milena Debeljković, announced that tickets for the festival are on sale and can be bought at the box office, and for screenings in the big hall of Kombank Hall and Dom Omladine in Belgrade, the audience can get tickets online at tickets.rs .
The central location of the festival traditionally remains Kombank Hall, while the program will take place in other halls in Belgrade, but also in other cities throughout Serbia. Following the world trends, part of the FAF program will also take place online – on the MojOFF film platform.