Festivals
"Magnificent Seven" in battle with Festus
"I don't understand who needed it", comments the founder of "Seven Magnificent" Zoran Popović on the decision to hold the Fest at the same time as the European Feature Documentary Film Festival
Reacting
Ivan Karl's reaction: I will not be the artistic director or selector of FEST
The director of the Film Center of Serbia (FCS) Ivan Karl reacted to the comment "Postponing the Fest: Making personnel dice" by the journalist and editor of the weekly "Vreme" Sonja Ćirić. We publish his response in full
Comment
Postponing the Fest: Stacking the Personnel Dice
The Fest board has decided that the festival will no longer be held in February but in September. One gets the impression that the solution of this secondary problem is actually just an announcement of the solution of the essential one
Festival
The fest is in September, right before Bitef
Apart from Bitef, this year Belgrade will host another international festival in September - Festa. By the decision of the Board of this festival, the traditional February term of the Festa was abolished
Festival
The festival is postponed until further notice.
About twenty days until the traditional date for the start of the Fest, the new program selector is not known, and therefore neither is the program. It is only known that the Fest will be postponed due to security reasons
Cinema: Video library
Without a flywheel, there is no shot
Video library will first of all be remembered as an interesting and brave attempt to offer something different within the framework of Serbian cinema, although at the same time as a film that failed to fully develop the considerable potential it had
52st feast
The film "The Russian Consul" closed the Fest
The 52nd Fest ended with the presentation of awards and the screening of the film "The Russian Consul", dedicated to Žarko Laušević. The best film is the Russian "Master"
Cinema
Fest: Half of the films exclusively in Belgrade
The most important film festival in Serbia starts on Friday, and its selector Jugoslav Pantelić tells "Vreme" that the selection is colorful. He particularly emphasizes the fact that about half of the films were purchased for the festival
Festival
Four domestic films at this year's Fest
Žarko Laušević's last film "The Russian Consul" closes this year's Fest. Apart from this film, there are three more domestic productions on the program
Culture
A new Festa date was announced, fewer film competitions and a national festival
October is a better time for the Fest, the end of the summer should be used for the national festival, and it is better to have fewer film competitions so that the films get more initial capital, announced Ivan Karl
Analyze
FEST changes: How the mayor envisions the best festival in the region
Aleksandar Šapić, visiting the renovated "Dadov" today, announced the independence of the Fest. He explained it by the need for Belgrade to have a better festival than Sarajevo. He also announced that Serbian films and Serbian actors will be on the program of such a Fest
Culture
FEST: And finally – Puriša
"Mouth full of earth" by Purisa Đorđević will close this year's FEST. Jugoslav Pantelić evaluates this film as the biggest surprise of the entire program, which contains 113 films, of which 107 are premieres.
Society
Young people about Yugoslavia: Paradoxes that are not paid attention to, but are present
In the Youth Center, a cycle of debates begins on the country from which the current Serbia originated, where young researchers, unencumbered by either Yugoslavia or the war in which it disappeared, will analyze its good and bad sides. It is expected that we will all learn something in the end
Party
Nikita Mikhalkov: On the international wanted list
The Ukrainian prosecutor's office condemned the Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov for threatening the sovereignty of that country. Mikhalkov is surprised, and will not come to the Fest
Interview
Miloš Biković: Between earning from lithium and a healthy environment, I choose clean rivers, mountains and air
Environmental protests draw attention to certain topics and issues, and they have succeeded in doing so. But protests are not in themselves the solution to the problem. They should be solved systematically, with laws and procedures, and, most importantly, by respecting the procedures, and we have traditionally, like some courage, always lacked that. Actors and celebrities can draw attention to certain topics and raise questions that may then lead to an awakening or a shift in consciousness. But they cannot be the saviors of the people or the messiah
Interview
Stefan Arsenijević: When they hit rock bottom, people take to the streets en masse
Feelings of threat, injustice, hatred and xenophobia are encouraged for the sake of the government's interests, so we dig our own trenches more and more. I fear that it leads to escalation and violence