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23-07-2010 09:52:41 6th PRESS CONFERENCE |
Among the guests of the press conference, that was held at the Grand Terrace, there were the cast and crew of the film POLYGAMY - Dénes Orosz, director of the film, Sandor Csányi and Réka Tenki, actors in the film. Directors Marija Džidževa and Anna Marija Rossi spoke about the omnibus SOME OTHER STORIES, director Veiko Õunpuu presented his film THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY, and Aleksei Popogrebsky his film HOW I ENDED THE END OF THE SUMMER. On behalf of the Festival, Radoslav Zelenović and Blažo Perović, revealed the impressions of the 17th and announced the 18th European Film Festival Palić, and finally - juries of the Parallels and Encounters and the Official Selection announced their decisions. |
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21-07-2010 18:09:51 5th PRESS CONFERENCE |
At the press conference that was held at the Grand Terrace, the following guests introduced themselves: Julie Gayet, an actress in 8 TIMES UP and Nadia Turincev, producer of the same film, Mira Fornayova, director of FOXES, Peter Szajki, director of INTIMATE HEADSHOT and Nebojša Pjević, director of the documentary US SO2 SRBIJA. |
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21-07-2010 17:19:48 4th PRESS CONFERENCE |
Guests of the 4th press conference were: cast and crew of the film BESA - director Srđan Karanović, actors Iva Krajnc and Radivoje Raša Bukvić, and composer Zoran Simjanović, as well as Damien Keyeux, editor of the Belgian film ILLEGAL, and Orsolya Schefcsik, actress in the Hungarian film DAYS OF DESIRE. |
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20-07-2010 16:00:08 3rd PRESS CONFERENCE |
At the press conference that was held at Great Terrace, the reporters were able to hear: director of BARONS Nabil Ben Yadir; director of STREET DAYS Levan Koguashvili; director of PAPER PLANES Simon Szabo and editor of the film Albert Czomba; director of I ALREADY AM EVERYTHING I WANT TO HAVE Dane Komljen and the directors of GOOSIES Igor Buharov, Ivan Buharov and Vasile Croat. |
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19-07-2010 15:38:37 2nd PRESS CONFERENCE |
At the SECOND press conference, the reporters met the following guests: Dietrich Bruggeman, director of the film RUN IF YOU CAN, Anna Bruggeman, an actress in the same film, Aleksi Salmenperä, director of the film BAD FAMILY, Jaak Kilmi, director of the film DISCO & ATOMIC WAR, and finally, the new issue of the film magazine "Filaz" will be presented, too. |
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18-07-2010 15:39:24 1st PRESS CONFERENCE |
The first press conference, was held at the Grand Terrace, with the following guests: Radoslav Zelenović, Festival Director, Blažo Perović, Director of the Open University - the executive producer of the Festival, Saša Vučinić, Mayor of Subotica, Goran Marković, director and this year's national winner of the Aleksandar Lifka Award, Želimir Žilnik, director and winner of the Erste Underground Spirit Award, as well as Srđan Koljević, director and screenwriter the film THE WOMAN WITH A BROKEN NOSE, with members of the film's cast and crew. |
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08-07-2010 20:21:38 PRESS CONFERENCE OF THE 17th EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL PALIĆ |
A press conference of the 17th European Film Festival Palić was held at the Museum of Yugoslav Film Archives on the 24th of June. The participants were Radoslav Zelenović, director of the Festival, Blažo Perović, director of the Open University in Subotica (executive producer of the Festival), Nikolaj Nikitin, selector of the Official Selection, Petar Mitrić, selector of the Parallels the Encounters and the Young Spirit of Europe, and Miroslav Mogorović, executive director of the Festival. They talked about the programme, guests and future objectives.
Radoslav Zelenović, director of the Festival, spoke about the Festival history, recalling the enthusiasm which in 1992 inspired the initiators of the Festival to make an "impossible mission" possible.
He also announced that over 60 features and 15 documentaries from 30 countries were to be presented at the upcoming Festival. Blažo Perović, director of the Open University in Subotica, said that one of the main goals in organizing this year's Festival was maintaining it at the last year’s level, despite the economic crisis and accordingly lower budget. He also expressed his hope that new Festival sponsors would be found for the next year in order to make it independent from the state budget. Besides, he pointed out that part of this year’s Festival programme would be taking place at a new venue - reconstructed Aleksandar Lifka Cinema. Nikolai Nikitin, selector of the Official Selection, said that the main Festival programme comprised the best of recent European cinema. The programme proves how different those films may be and that it is impossible to classify them as “European film type”. He singled out the Spanish film Fat People, Romanian-German Medal of Honor, which he claims to be different from the majority of contemporary Romanian films, French 8 Times Up, depicting survival on social margins, and Polish Reverse about dark times of the Stalinist period. Besides, two films from this year’s Berlinale will also be presented – How I Ended the End of the Summer, and the film by Finnish director Aleksi Salmenperä, Bad Family, produced by Aki Kaurismäki. Nikitin also said he was particularly glad because the Festival would open with a Serbian film - The Woman with a Broken Nose by Srđan Koljević. Petar Mitrić, selector of Parallels and Encounters and Young Spirit of Europe, announced ten films competing within the first programme, including films from Turkey, Georgia, Poland, Slovakia, as well as two Serbian films. As far as the latter is concerned, it consists of some twenty films which have only one thing in common – a filmmaker’s unusual approach to the subject matter of the film. Miroslav Mogorović, executive director of the Festival, announced that in addition to the Aleksandar Lifka Award winners, Costa Gavras and Goran Marković, numerous other guests have confirmed their arrival, including Alexei Popogrebski, director of the film How I Ended the End of the Summer, Julie Gayet, the lead actress in 8Times Up, Franziska Weisz, an actress in Run If You Can, Dénes Orosz, a director of the film Polygamy, as well as representatives of all major film institutions from Hungary. It was also said that the Underground Spirit Award winner and the rest the Young Spirit of Europe programme would be announced at the press conference to be held in Subotica on the 5th July. |
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21-07-2010 17:03:08
ROUND TABLE DEVOTED TO ALEKSANDAR LIFKA Next year, on the 100th anniversary of the first permanent cinema in Subotica, a scientific almanac will be published devoted to Aleksandar Lifka - concluded participants of yesterday's round table, who talked about Lifka, his works and deeds. more... |
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19-07-2010 16:05:11
ROUND TABLE: THE FUTURE OF THE EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL PALIĆ The question regarding the future of the European Film Festival Palić was raised at the round table discussion yesterday at the JP Park Palić, when Dinko Tucaković, the host, asked the participants of the discussion when the cinema theatres in Subotica and Serbia died out, letting film festivals take their place. How should one balance between its royal highness - the Film, which has to stay at the very focus of the Festival, unavoidable accompanying programmes and festival atmosphere, which is necessary but not a goal itself, asked Tucaković. more... |
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11-06-2010 20:58:42
Newly Constituted Festival Council On Friday, 26th February, the Council of the European Film Festival Palić held a meeting. On that occasion, a new Festival Council was constituted, composed of: Srđan Karanović, Mira Banjac, Branislav Lečić, Szabolcs Tolnai, Ferenc Deak, Zoltan Siflis and Ivan Vujić. The meeting was also attended by Radoslav Zelenović, the Festival director, Blazo Perović on behalf of the Open University as the executive producer of the Festival, Miroslav Mogorović, a programme director, and Petar Mitrić, a representative of the selection team. more... |
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06-08-2009 09:07:21
THE DIRECTOR AT THE ONLY STRICTLY EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL IN THE WORLD NO BUSINESS LIKE MONKEY BUSINESS This past week I spent five days in Palic, Serbia, at the only strictly European film festival in the world, now in its 16th year. I premiered my latest film, Boudica Bites Back, starring my wife Lisi, pictured below, at a giant outdoor screening. Ninety-four films are screened over an official seven days, with 19 extra days showing pre and post-festival films for the festival hardcores who can’t bear to go home. The musician Mick Harvey, co-founder with Nick Cave of the Bad Seeds, was also there. more... |