Belgrade Festival
Belgrade Film Festival: More than 20.000 spectators and sold-out screenings
After eight days and 43 films from the latest world production, the first Belgrade Film Festival ended with more than 20.000 spectators.
Cinema
What is comfort and what is support?
28 years later: Temple of Bones
directed by Nio DaCosta
starring: Jack O'Connell and Ralph Fiennes
Film and politics
"Wedding" shows that everything is okay between Serbs and Croats
Why do they shoot films like "The Wedding" in Croatia and films like "The Gift" in Serbia, and why do audiences in both countries prefer "The Wedding". In ten days, nearly 380.000 viewers saw it
The state and the film
What are Selaković and FCS hiding and what role does NAFFIT play in it?
Minister of Culture Nikola Selaković says that the state invested 11 million euros in 53 films that were not made. The Film Center of Serbia organizes a panel on this problem and invites directors and producers to Zlatibor, the headquarters of the National Film and Television Festival, even though the entire film industry boycotted it.
The culture of memory
Can a man be changed by force?
Animated film Father's letters about a true story from the time of Soviet repression, he highlights the contrast between ideological violence and the indestructible power of parental love, and confirms the importance of the artistic act as a defense against ideological oblivion
Festivals
The scheduled date of this year's March Festival
The 72nd March Documentary and Short Film Festival will be held from April 21 to 25. In addition to the films that will be selected at the competition, those that were selected last year, when this festival was not held, will also be shown
The state and the film
Will directors and producers come to the Film Center and NAFFIT panel
The Film Center of Serbia has invited directors and producers to a panel organized in Zlatibor with NAFFIT, the National Film and Television Festival for "loyal and similar", which, like the entire film industry, boycotted last September
Party
Former members of the Fest Board: We were dismissed without explanation
The former members of the Fest Board learned about the change from the press release of the Secretary of Culture, and they doubt that without a professional strategy and analysis of past mistakes, further development of the manifestation will be possible.
Cinema
Acute psychoses and narcissistic fears
Crkni, love, directed by Lynn Ramsey, starring Jennifer Lawrence; Marty the Magnificent, directed by Ben Safdie, starring Timothee Chalamet
Film
"Sentimental Value": Giving what we don't have
The film "Sentimental Value" by Joachim Trier talks about the fact that a gift is only possible if it escapes the economy of exchange. In other words, a gift implies that we give what we do not have. What is not ours. What does that mean?
In memoriam: Brigitte Bardot (1934–2025)
Icon of absolute freedom
Nine decades of BB blonde sex bombshell of 1950s French cinema, bikini pioneer, existentialist icon of "absolute freedom" who got tired of stripping
Art
Brigitte Bardot passed away: Icon of film and controversy
French film legend Brigitte Bardot, film icon of the fifties and sixties, who became a defender of animal rights, died at the age of 91
Navigator
Stream that again, Sam.
Many commentators interpret the transition of the Oscars to the Internet not as a change in the transmission platform, but as a change in its function
Film
Addressing the viewer as a political subject: Je suis Bugonia
In today's world, we no longer ask what is true, but what narrative allows us to endure crisis, fear, uncertainty. The film "Bugonia" does not explain, justify or criticize this shift from a distance - it registers it from the inside
Streaming
As a nuclear missile flies towards you
Dynamite House, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso; Netflix 2025.
Festival
Martovski, another festival that is absent this year
A double edition of the March Festival next year is being considered in order to make up for the absence of this year's, but also the question of whether there will be films about our reality.
Interview: Aleksandar Radivojević, director
Between isolation and facing reality
Karmadona, written and directed by Aleksandar Radivojević, starring Jelena Đokić, Sergej Trifunović, Milutin Mima Karadžić, Milica Stefanović, Miloš Lolić, Miloš Timotijević, Petar Strugar and others
Television
Netflix could take over HBO
American media corporation Warner Bros. Discovery has entered into an agreement with Netflix to sell its business. Thus, they could also become owners of the HBO service
First Belgrade Film Festival
There won't be a festival, but that's why the Belgrade Film Festival is starting
"This is a new festival, and it has nothing to do with Festa, nor is it its replacement," says Igor Stanković, one of the initiators of the Belgrade Film Festival, which will show the latest mainstream titles from January 30 to February 6.
Cinema
In the gap between wishes and reality
How is it so green here??, directed by Nikola Ležaić, starring Filip Đurić and Izudin Bajrović
Recommendation
A film obituary for all our parents
Go to the cinema. No fear that this is another difficult domestic film. South Florida managed to return the film to ordinary people, the lonely, those whose problems can never be solved
Home movie
Pictures of a better past
Hajduk in Belgrade, directed by Milan Todorović,
played by: Todor Jovanović, Sofia Trifunović, Andrej Kostjukov, Martin Zoričić, Pavle Nikolić
Streaming
Blackness, greed and one step further
Play dirty. (Amazon Prime), directed by Shay Blake, starring Mark Wahlberg
Memories
The show is not visible from him.
Before the Book Fair, and on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of the great actor we love, it was published Monograph by Žarko Laušević to disclose and preserve the memories of Voja Brajović, Dragana Varagić, Slavko Štimac, Slobodan Unkovski, Vlada Divac... on their Lauš
Interview: Slobodan Maksimović, director
Humor as protection against harmful environment
Many people approached me after the film with a smile, while wiping away tears. I think they are touched by the fact that the film covers an era of exceptional creators, who are an indispensable part of our common history
Interview: Boris Trbić, director
Long journey home
"Women who belonged to the first generations of Australian doctors, women-writers, women who were the bearers of emancipatory and transformative tendencies in Australian society, arrived at the Thessaloniki front. This story has never been told until now"
In memoriam
Zdravko Šotra (1933 – 2025): Construction technician who created film and television history
The rich opus of Zdravko Šotra consists of more than 120 films and television productions, among which are the once extremely popular television series "Face to Face" and the anthology films and series "Brothers by Mater", "Barking at the Stars", "More than Game" and "Wounded Eagle".