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14th Palic festival kicks off on July 16
Belgrade,
14 July 2007
The 14th European Film Festival Palic 2007 will open on Monday, July 16, and will feature 54 movies.
The festival will open with this year's winner of the Palm d'Or in Cannes, Romanian film “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” by Christian Mungui.
The Aleksandar Lifka Award will be awarded for outstanding contribution to the art of film to famous Hungarian director, writer, actor and producer Istvan Szabo, and Serbian actor, producer and director Ljubisa Samardzic.
The festival will also show Emir Kusturica’s latest film “Promise Me This”.
The competitive part will feature 12 movies from several European countries, including Turkey, Germany, UK, Russia, Austria, Finland, Poland, Denmark, Israel and Hungary, along with two movies from Serbia “The Trap” by Srdan Golubovic and “Film Noir” by Srdja Penezic and Rista Topaloski.
The selector of the official selection is Nikolaj Nikitin, editor of the German film magazine “Der Schnitt” and Berlinale delegate for Eastern and South Eastern European countries.
Apart from the official selection, the Norwegian film will be in focus of the festival. The New Norwegian Film Programme has been realized in co-operation with the Norwegian Film Institute (Norsk Filminstitutt).
At the Open University in Subotica, the audience will traditionally view the New Hungarian Film Programme, presenting six most intriguing accomplishments of this country's film.
The Young European Authors Programme will present contemporary trends in European filmmaking, showing short, experimental and documentary films made within the period between two festivals, as well as a series of concerts of innovative and alternative bands from Europe and this region.
The festival’s budget is €250,000 and is supported by the Ministry of Culture and municipal and provincial authorities of Vojvodina.
The Aleksandar Lifka Award will be awarded for outstanding contribution to the art of film to famous Hungarian director, writer, actor and producer Istvan Szabo, and Serbian actor, producer and director Ljubisa Samardzic.
The festival will also show Emir Kusturica’s latest film “Promise Me This”.
The competitive part will feature 12 movies from several European countries, including Turkey, Germany, UK, Russia, Austria, Finland, Poland, Denmark, Israel and Hungary, along with two movies from Serbia “The Trap” by Srdan Golubovic and “Film Noir” by Srdja Penezic and Rista Topaloski.
The selector of the official selection is Nikolaj Nikitin, editor of the German film magazine “Der Schnitt” and Berlinale delegate for Eastern and South Eastern European countries.
Apart from the official selection, the Norwegian film will be in focus of the festival. The New Norwegian Film Programme has been realized in co-operation with the Norwegian Film Institute (Norsk Filminstitutt).
At the Open University in Subotica, the audience will traditionally view the New Hungarian Film Programme, presenting six most intriguing accomplishments of this country's film.
The Young European Authors Programme will present contemporary trends in European filmmaking, showing short, experimental and documentary films made within the period between two festivals, as well as a series of concerts of innovative and alternative bands from Europe and this region.
The festival’s budget is €250,000 and is supported by the Ministry of Culture and municipal and provincial authorities of Vojvodina.
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