Position of a foreigner gives a chance to look at the truth

After working in the U.S. I am even more against commercialism, plastic botoxed people and the worship of technology as a key value

One of the greatest actresses of the Yugoslav film says that two men are responsible for her coming to Palić: Stefan Arsenijević and Svetozar Cvetković with whom in 2011 she shot a film in Turkey DON’T FORGET ME ISTANBUL.
"I have complete confidence in their opinion, and they talked to me about Palić as a wonderful gathering place of creative people. These are the people whom I trust and whose sensibilities I share, so I accepted the invitation with greatest pleasure."

Sex tourism as a new colonialism

Ulrich Seidl is an author whose films divide the audience. There are those who do not want to see the reality, and this film shows precisely that

Film PARADISE: LOVE of Austrian director Ulrich Seidl deals with the issue of sex tourism, the one that is practiced in the resorts of Kenya by middle-aged woman from the West. However, the main protagonist in the film, Teresa, played by Margarethe Tiesel our interviewee, does not seek only physical pleasure on the "paradise" beach, but also "love" in which, as the film progresses – she does not succeed.

Pieces of a puzzle from the reality

Born in Lithuania in 1982, Kristina Buožytė graduated with a Master degree from Film and TV Directing at Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy in 2008. Her first feature THE COLLECTRESS won The Best Movie Award in 2008 Lithuanian Silver Crane Awards, The Best Director Award in Russian film festival Kinoshock 2008 and participated in more than 30 film festivals such as Karlovy Vary, Pusan, San Paulo, Valencia, Manheim, Cottbus, Cairo and others. She is now working as a freelance director.

Homage to Truffaut’s THE 400 BLOWS

There were a few phases in a life of a boy before, you were led through those phases by the society, and today you are pretty much on your own

Director Alexander Vartanov was born in 1977 in Moscow. He studied journalism, film directing and dramaturgy. He started his career as a theatre director, and he also worked as a translator, actor, producer and screenwriter, and he currently works for a Russian film distributor company “Volga“.
BULLET COLLECTOR is his directing debut, for which he also wrote the screenplay. He was one of the producers of this drama.
He speaks for the Festival Newspaper about his experience, the film that is shown in the Parallels and Encounters Programme of the 19 European Film Festival and THE 400 BLOWS as his inspiration

Freedom in the shackles of Hollywood

Unlike commercial American films, European Film Fest Palić promotes an author’s approach which speaks of our reality

With a little help from fans

We managed to gather from our fans more than one million euros for the film budget, which is more than great

Guest of the 19 European Film Festival Palić is Timo Vuorensola too, director of the main attraction of this year's Berlin Film Festival - Sci-Fi piece IRON SKY.
According to the synopsis of the film, in the end of World War II, the Nazi secret space program managed to avoid the destruction by escaping to the Dark Side of the Moon. After 70 years, in complete secrecy, the Nazis constructed a gigantic space station, with a large army of flying saucers, preparing themselves for the invasion of the Earth.
About the movie IRON SKY, the help of fans in closing the film budget, the group "Laibach", Udo Kier, homage and influences from the world of music, films and comic books, director Vuorensola speaks for the Festival newspaper.

The film is not ''disturbing''

The viewers haven't seen anything different from what they usually see every day on national TV channels and in the press CLIP (KLIP) is the Serbian film that people talked about the most in 2012. If there was anything that people in Serbia wrangled about this year, it was this film. ''CLIP is a porn film with children'', the bloodthirsty ''Kurir'' has recently declared, the tabloid which makes hard-core pornography a nursery rhyme. Before and after that, Maja Miloš got and still keeps getting festival awards and stars in ctitics' reviews. 
The producer of CLIP Jelena Mitrović has no reason to be dissatisfied: after BESA by Karanović, DONKEY (KENJAC) by Nuić and TRAP (KLOPKA) by Golubović, this is probably the most successful product of her film company ''Baš Čelik''. 

Growing up in a harsh environment

I wanted to speak very openly about the problems of young people growing up in a harsh environment, and to see where and how love appears and manifests itself. 

Acknowledged festival life at home and abroad, which is reflected in numerous awards, the debut film of our domestic author Maja Miloš CLIP, continues at Palić, where it will be shown in Parallels and Encounters programme. CLIP is a film that, through the prism of a seemingly simple love story talks about the young people in Serbia today, says director Miloš at the beginning of her interview for the Festival Newsletter.
"I wanted to deal with the problems of young people who seem to appear apathetic and on the other hand have a huge amount of energy that seeks a valve to channel itself. Anger, self-destruction and destruction are the valves through which the energy comes to the surface, but totally unexpected, even for them, tenderness and empathy occurs. Film is a combination of harsh environment, violence, drugs, trash - in which young people grow up - and the fluttering of youthful love."