Cabaret Balkan
Paskaljević’s films have been screened and awarded at the most prestigious international film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, San Sebastian, Valladolid…). At last year’s FEST in Belgrade, Paskaljević presented his final film, an Italian-Serbian-Macedonian-French co-production Despite the Fog, shot in Italy. After this film, Paskaljević was slated to direct the film Cat’s Scream, which, like Despite the Fog, received the support of Film Center Serbia.
Special Treatment
Paskaljević won many prestigious awards, including the Critics’ Award for Best European Film in 1998 for Cabaret Balkan and the Critics Award at San Sebastian in 1990 for Time of Miracles. His films have been successfully screened at festivals in Berlin, Cannes, Chicago, Geneva, Haifa, Ghent, Munich, Nashville, Palm Springs, Pula, San Sebastian, San Francisco, Thessaloniki, Valladolid, Venice… Variety magazine ranked him in 2001 in the top five directors of the year, along with Las Hallstrom, Neil Jordan, Steven Soderbergh and Edward Young.
Elusive Summer of 68
Paskaljević is the first film director to receive the Bernard Vicky Memorial Fund Award (“The Bridge”) for humanism in his works in Munich in 2002. In November 2007, he was awarded the French Order of Art and Literature, which was presented to him on May 9th, 2008 in Belgrade.