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.

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.

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."

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.

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.