One monograph, an exhibition, two workshops, three panel discussions, five concerts and three hundred guests - in the city without a cinema
This year's Film Festival program remains largely in previous dimensions, however, several additional programs bring many innovations. Palić '11 will be much more dispersed in terms of programming, compared to last year, and the whole physiognomy of the program is divided into two parts: the film and the following, not-film programs. According to executive producer of the Festival Blažo Perović, for the very first time, the emphasis is on the debate programs, so this year we will have three round tables: "The first is dedicated to the achievements of Serbian cinema in year 2010, where our 'authors' team' will participate, and after that ,the plan is to issue a collection about what was said. "
The second one "How the War Started on My Balkan Peninsula", builds on the selection of (anti) war films from former Yugoslavia. "At this roundtable," says Perović, " around twenty intellectuals from the former Yugoslavia will participate, and they will try to answer three questions: Was there a breakup germ in the foundation of the former Yugoslavia?, How much guilt is there in regional national oligarchies for the breakup and the wars in former Yugoslavia? and how much is international community involved in everything? ". The third round table is dedicated to the environment and builds on the selection of "Eco Dox". This year’s topic is eco-innovations.
Perović points out that this is the first segment of " the not-film part of the Festival". About the second one, he says: "It has two workshops, designed for students of film academies. One is called 'Crossovers', which we are doing in cooperation with the Festival of rock film in Vinkovci, and there, the students from Serbia and Croatia will make films about rock concerts to be held at the Festival. The second workshop is designed for students who are engaged in production."
Having in mind that this year marks the centenary of Serbian film and Lifka’s cinema in Subotica, Perović announces convenient Serbian-English collection of works by 14 authors who mark the territory where Lifka and his family were moving across: "In this way, we want to reaffirm Lifka in Europe, because we believe that he is not only significant for Serbia, but that he is an important European name as well. Through the Yugoslav Film Archive, as co-publishers, we will try to send this monograph to all relevant addresses of European archives and to ask them through cover letters to send us new information about Lifka. If they have any, of course. "
Regarding that, Perović announces an exhibition dedicated to the centenary of cinema in Serbia, which will be held in cooperation with the Yugoslav Film Archive and the City Museum in Subotica: "That way the local public will have the opportunity to see many details related to this sector, including our own, Subotica’s. "
In the end, Blažo Perović reminds us of concerts and parties which will be held every night of the Festival, adding that this year the number of over 300 guests from Serbia and abroad will amount to almost double comparing to last year's number."I think this is the best indicator that the festival, which is within the budget similar to last year’s, continues it’s line of development. Unfortunately, this year’s Festival is faced with two key problems. The first one is the fact that it takes place under circumstances where Subotica and Palić have no real cinema, and the other, that Palić does not function touristically in a way that would be suitable for a festival", says Blažo Perović.
