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The 29th European Film Festival Palić starts tomorrow

15.07.2022.

This year, the 29th edition of the European Film Festival Palić officially starts at the Palić Summer Stage on Saturday, July 16 at 9 p.m. At the opening ceremony, "Aleksandar Lifka" Award will be presented to our famous writer, screenwriter and director Dušan Kovačević, for his outstanding contribution to European cinema.

After the ceremony, Official Selection programme starts with the screening of "Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush" directed by Andreas Dresen. In this production, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and caring mother, desperately wants to help her son. She goes to the police, informs the authorities, but encounters their misunderstanding. Despite all the adversity something truly amazing is going on. This film will be shown again the following day at the Eurocinema in Subotica, at noon.

The Official Selection continues on Sunday, July 17 at Palić Summer Stage, with screenings of "As Far as I Can Walk" directed by Stefan Arsenijević (9 p.m., out of competition) and "No" by Dietrich Brüggemann (11 p.m.).

"As Far as I Can Walk" is a film version of the Serbian epic poem Banović Strahinja, in which African migrants take rolls of medieval Serbian heroes. Simultaneously timeless and current, this adaptation re-examines the concept of identity, tradition and love. In the film "No", through thirteen episodes we follow the two main characters, actress Dina and doctor Michael, as they move through life and try to maintain their love. The film is about those who are in their thirties - who have everything, and try everything, but still often fail.

The competition program "Parallels and Encounters" starts on Sunday, July 17 at Abazija Cinema in Palić, with screenings of "Fools" by Tomasz Wasilewski (5 p.m.) and "Butterfly Vision" by Maksym Nakonechnyi (7 p.m.).

"Fools" follows the difficult relationship between mother and son, as well as the dramatic consequences of their decisions. In the film "Butterfly Vision", the protagonist Lilia (29), after returning home from the front where she was imprisoned for two months, discovers that she is pregnant after the prison warden raped her. The film questions whether she will be able to survive this trauma and save the child in a society where neither of them is desirable.

Programme "Ukraine in Focus" starts on the same day at 5 pm at the Eurocinema in Subotica, with the screening of documentary film "This Rain Will Never Stop" by Alina Gorlova. The film follows 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman as he tries to secure a sustainable future while navigating the human toll of armed conflict. From the Syrian civil war to strife in Ukraine, Andriy’s existence is framed by the seemingly eternal flow of life and death. The film takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through humanity’s endless cycle of war and peace.

After this screening, Kristina Grošan's "Things Worth Weeping For" opens "New Hungarian Film" section at the Eurocinema at 7 p.m. The film is about people in their 30s who try to meet serious grown-up expectations when their lives do not actually have much in common with typical adulthood. The intention is to examine this controversial state that is full of conflict, tension, self-righteousness and absurd situations.

"Eco Dox" section starts on Sunday, July 17, at the Art cinema "Lifka" in Subotica, with "The Animal" by Cyril Dion, in which teenagers Bella and Vipulan travel to meet with scientists and activists around the world, searching for another way of living alongside other species, as co-habitants rather than predators. At the same place at 19:00, in the section "New European Documentary Film", the film "If You Are a Man" by Simon Panay is on the program. The film follows the events in the Perkoa gold mine in Burkina Faso, where thirteen-year-old Opio earns only a bag of stones a month. His father wants to educate him, but he can't pay the school fees, so Opio has to fend for himself.

Young Spirit of Europe section presents the omnibus "Lost and Found" from 2005, directed by Stefan Arsenijević, Nadejda Koseva, Mait Laas, Kornél Mundruczó , Cristian Mungiu and Jasmila Zbanich, at Abazija Cinema at 11 p.m. The theme of generation runs through the film as a red thread, reflecting a new self-image of six young filmmakers in Central and Eastern Europe and looking at traditions and national stories anew. Next in this programme, at 11:55 p.m., is the film "BRUTALIA, Days of Labour" by Manolis Mavris. Perfectly identical girls, dressed in military uniforms, work day and night. A matriarchal family. An Oligarchic society. The film asks what would happen if we replaced bees with humans.

At the Abazija Cinema in Palić, starting at 3 p.m. "Zsigmond Vilmos" section presents short films "Dusk" by Bálint Bíró, "The Accident" by Bohdan Herkaliuk, "Other Moon" (Juanma F. Pozzo) and "And the Night Remained" by Anže Grčar.

"Blue Flower" by Zrinko Ogresta will be screened as a special screening at the Abazija Cinema in Palić at 9 p.m. The plot follows Middle-aged Mirjana works at a thread factory. On the eve of her 20th work anniversary, when she is to receive an award at a modest celebration, her interactions with her loved ones illustrate parts of her life: the one behind her, the one she is living and the one that is yet to come.