The 20th Jubilee of the European Film Festival Palić will be held from 13th till 19th July 2013 on various locations in Palić and in Subotica. Beside the 20 years of existence, the Festival also celebrates its 10th anniversary in becoming a festival oriented towards European cinematography, therefore the audience will see the “Golden Tower” awarded films of the past ten years.

The International Jury of the 19 European Film Festival Palić held at Palić, Subotica, Serbia, 14 – 20 July 2012, composed of members: Ms. MIRA FURLAN (Croatia/ US), actress – President of the Jury, Mr. AHMET BOYACIOGLU (Turkey), producer, director, Ms. ALEXANDRA DAHLSTRÖM (Sweden), actress, director, writer, Ms. GABRIELE KRANZELBINDER (Austria), producer, Mr. BOJAN Ž. BOSILJČIĆ (Serbia/Canada), publicist, journalist and film critic has upon viewing the Official Competition Selection of 14 films made the following decisions:

 

The award for the Best Film from Parallels and Encounters programme is assigned to THE IDIOT because it bravely explores altered states of style and content throughout which it encounters new realities of the human soul as defined by Dostoyevsky. 

I am never bored with talking about good films

When you are preparing a character for a film, nothing is difficult, just interesting, attracting, and there is the ambition to reach the new and the unknown

When the first film of a nineteen-year-old actress gets the ''Golden Lion'' and other 30 international awards, it is no wonder that in the next 20 years she plays the same number of roles, half of which in international co-productions. Obviously, that was not enough for Labina Mitevska, so she produced four other films in the meantime. Together with her sister Teona, a director, and her brother Vuk, a scenographer, Labina is a member of the ''Sister & Brother Mitevski'' team and was behind the film WOMAN WHO BRUSHED OFF HER TEARS in which she is a co-star to the famous Spanish actress Victoria Abril. This film was shown in the programme Parallels and Encounters. Nevertheless, this conversation could start with nothing else but mentioning what happened at the beginning – Milčo Mančevski and Labina's fascinating role of a young Albanian girl Zamira.

I’m a richer man for knowing Mira Furlan

Director Stefan Arsenijević is this year's guest of the Festival as one of the directors of omnibus film, DO NOT FORGET ME ISTANBUL. About working on this film, collaboration with Mira Furlan, and this year’s Festival of European Film, he speaks for the Festival Newsletter.

Historic and cultural links with Istanbul

We talk to Huseyin Karabey, art director and producer of the DO NOT FORGET ME ISTANBUL, about this year’s omnibus, Turkish cinema and his next film in which he acts as a screenwriter, director and producer.

Nature is not harmony

A countryside family is the essence of nature, its ruthlessness and pragmatism

This year in the programme Parallels and Encounters we saw a film from Montenegro that has nothing to do with Montenegrin as far as the contents are concerned. It is not a deficiency: THE ASCENT could have been made anywhere, at any time. And it was filmed on Durmitor, near Žabljak, in the natural environment that still has not been exploited for tourism. In the interview for the Festival Newsletter Nemanja Bećanović says that his visual role model was the American painter Andrew Wyatt and his impressive landscapes which influenced Terrence Malick, and that he was delighted when he discovered such locations.

A new film decade is beginning

With the programme director of the European Film Festival Palić Miroslav Mogorović we spoke for the Festival Newsletter about this year's edition of the festival and about plans for the next jubilee, 20 European Film Festival Palć, 2013.