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21-07-2010 10:05:54 WITH ĐIĐA IN TUNE |
INTERVIEW: ZORAN SIMJANOVIĆ, COMPOSER OF MUSIC FOR THE FILM BESA „It is not the sensitive theme that matters so much, but the time when it happened. On the eve of World War I, we have a Serb and Slovenian girl who met in Wiena, and it was very interesting to find out what their music could be, as well as the music playing when the army is marching and going to war", says Zoran Simjanović describing music in the film BESA.
This dilema, as he states, at the begining was solved by the idea that it should be Franz Schubert's „Gretel". Simjanović says that he and director Srđan Karanović agreed about this at once ...
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20-07-2010 17:37:01 I WAS BARON MYSELF |
INTERVIEW: NABIL BEN YADIR, DIRECTOR OF BARONS Film BARONS by Belgium director of a Moroccan origin Nabil Ben Yadir (31), is screened at Palić Festival in two programs - Official Selection and in New Belgium Film program (tomorrow at Open University at 4pm). Comedy at first sight, but social drama really, the film speaks about three friends of Moroccan origin from Brussels's suburbs, who call themselves "barons", and who spend their days doing nothing according to peculiar theory that the less one works, the more his inner life becomes richer.
The plot of BARONS takes place in part of Brussels you grew up in. How many autobiographic elements are there in your film?
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20-07-2010 07:41:58 SCREENPLAY BY FOUR HANDS |
DIETRICH BRUGGEMAN, DIRECTOR OF FILM RUN IF YOU CAN Four years ago, German director Dietrich Bruggeman was a guest of Palić Film Festival as a member of the Official Selection jury, but this year his film RUN IF YOU CAN is going to be evaluated by this year's jury. Being a member of 2006 jury, he met screenwriter and director Srđan Koljević , with whom he has been associating and collaborating for years now, as well as actress Franziska Weiss to whom he gave a role in RUN IF YOU CAN.
Your film is a story about growing up and relationships between young people who enter a period of maturity. Is this the principal premise you started with in creating the film?
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20-07-2010 07:41:05 PRODUCER OUT OF NECESSITY |
SRDAN GOLUBOVIĆ, PRODUCER OF FILMS THE WOMAN WITH A BROKEN NOSE AND BESA Director Srdan Golubović, winner of the Silver Tower and Special Jury Prize for films ABSOLUTE HUNDRED and THE TRAP, has come to this year's Festival as a producer of two national films - THE WOMAN WITH A BROKEN NOSE and BESA. After a short film TROJKA, that had brought him several awards, Golubović (1972) directed the third story of the omnibus PAKET ARANŽMAN - HERC MINUTA. Later on, he started a film company Baš Čelik within which his and his friends' feature films are being produced.
At this year's European Film Festival Palić two films you have produced are going to be screened - THE WOMAN WITH A BROKEN NOSE and BESA. What did motivate you to produce these two films since ...
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20-07-2010 07:40:01 STORIES ARE RARELY CREATED OUT OF NOTHING |
SRĐAN KARANOVIĆ, SCREENWRITER AND DIRECTOR OF THE FILM BESA, MEMBER THE FESTIVAL COUNCIL The film BESA by Srđan Karanović, a member of the Festival Council, starring Iva Krajnc (a Jury member), Miki Manojlović and Nebojša Dugalić, will be shown in the Official Selection, out of competition. Karanović gives us a portrayal of an (im)possible love between a Slovenian woman and an Albanian man, in a small Serbian town, on the eve of the World War II, at the time when love really meant something and when "to give one's word" meant to actually keep it.
You have underlined in the film that "besa" means "word of honour". Why has it nowadays become almost absurd to give one's word and actually keep it?
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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... |