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Serbian Cinema Network Establishes a New Award for Best Serbian Film

The Board of Directors of the Serbia Cinema Network has established the award of the Serbia Cinema Network for the best Serbian feature film. The consideration for this award includes all feature-length majority Serbian productions that premiered in cinemas in Serbia in the period from January 1st, 2021 to May 31st, 2022, i.e. films intended […]

AVANT festival 2022 is focusing on Yugoslav avant-garde film

This year’s edition of the AVANT festival in Sweden (taking place September 23rd-24th), as part of the program entitled “Yugoslavia and more”, will be exploring the Yugoslav avant-garde film of the 1960s and 1970s and its legacy. The program included films by Slobodan Šijan and Tomislav Gotovac, as well as a selection dedicated to female […]

HAVC supports projects of Nikola Ležaić, Jovan Arsenić and Sonja Prosenc

At the 46th session of HAVC – the Croatian Audiovisual Council – in its third convocation, decisions were made on the distribution of funds according to the Public Call for the promotion of film co-productions with minority Croatian participation. Among the six supported projects are two majority Serbian productions: Mama – which will be directed […]

Remembering Jean-Luc Godard: a recently published biography by Bert Rebhandl

Film director Jean-Luc Godard, one of the founders of the French New Wave and one of the most respected European and world authors, died on September 13th in Rolle, Switzerland, at the age of 92. Jean-Luc Godard (born in 1930) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic, the author of the cult films […]

‘Then Comes the Evening’ wins its 52nd award

Maja Novaković’s short documentary film Then Comes the Evening has won its 52nd festival award, the Special Jury Award at the Eighth International Documentary Film Festival “Apricot Tree” in Ujan, Armenia. The film was produced with the support of Film Center Serbia. This film depicts the life of two elderly women who live isolated in […]

West Balkan countries sign a Memorandum of Cooperation in Film and Audiovisual Activities

The Vice-President of the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the Minister of Culture and Information Maja Gojković, the Minister of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojčevska and the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Albania Elve Margariti signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation in the Field of Film […]

The world premiere of Mila Turajlić’s new documentary film at Toronto IFF

Ciné-guerrillas: The Scenes From the Labudović Reels , a new documentary by multi-awarded Serbian director Mila Turajlić, author of the notable feature-length documentaries Cinema Communisto and Other side of Everything, will premiere at the “TIFF Docs” program of the 47th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), one of the most prestigious festivals in the world and […]

‘Museum of the Revolution’ wins the Heart of Sarajevo for best documentary

The 28th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival was concluded with the awards ceremony, and “Heart of Sarajevo” for the best documentary film. was won by a Serbian film, Museum of the Revolution, directed by Srđan Keča. The film is a co-production between Serbia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, made with the support of the […]

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Special recognition for Dane Komljen’s film in Wroclaw, Poland

The international film festival “New Horizons”, the 22nd in a row, ended in the Polish city of Wroclaw, and a special award went to the co-production of Germany, Spain, South Korea and Serbia – the film Afterwater directed by our director Dane Komljen. The production of that film was supported, among others, by Film Center […]

Grand Prix for ‘Working Class Heroes’ in Russia

The International Film Festival “Zerkalo” (Mirror) is being held in Ivanovo, Russia, In honor of the famous Russian and European filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986), and the Serbian feature Working Class Heroes directed by Miloš Pušić has just won the Grand Prix. The film, created with the support of the Film Center Serbia, premiered this winter […]

The world premiere of the Croatian-Serbian co-production ‘Garbura’ in San Sebastian

The Croatian-Serbian co-production Garbura, the debut feature film of screenwriter and director Josip Žuvan, will have its world premiere at the upcoming 70th International Film Festival in San Sebastian. The film was created with the support of Film Center Serbia, as well as with the support of the Croatian Audiovisual Center, the MEDIA program, the […]