‘Serbia’ Archives
Alpine alliances
A three-day co-production market is being staged as a sidebar of the Les Arcs Film Festival in the eponymous French ski resort.Projects being discussed and hopefully packaged include new features from Attila Gigor (whose The Investigator was one of the brightest Hungarian debuts in recent years), his compatriots Bálint Kenyeres, Réka Kincses and [...]
The East End Film Festival
The 2009 East End Film Festival launches tomorrow - in the words of the organisers:The East End Film Festival showcases hot new talent and homegrown films alongside larger independent releases and special events, informing and inspiring a new generation of filmmakers and audiences from across London and beyond, and raising the profile of this [...]
The Fourth Man
Četvrti čovjek Serbia, 2007, colour, 107 mins Director: Dejan Zečević Screenplay: Dejan Zečević, Boban Jevtić Photography: Goran Volarević Editor: Marko Glušac Music: Nemanja Mosurović, Slobodan Negić Producers: Željko Mitrović, Slobodan Jocić, Dénes Szekeres, Nikolina Vučetić Production Company: Viktorija film Cast: [...]
Sarajevo 2006/2008
When I started this blog just over a year ago, I did so with a long list of ambitions, chief among them being that I was going to keep the promise of its subtitle "a survey of Central and Eastern European cinema" by visiting the Gdynia, Plzeň, Budapest and Sarajevo Film Festivals every year and thereby end up sampling the vast majority of the [...]
Best Foreign Film Oscar shortlist announced
The Best Foreign Film Oscar shortlist has been whittled down to nine titles, with three of the nominations going to Eastern European films. Predictably, Wajda's Katyń is still on the list, though there's a surprise in that Cristian Mungiu's masterly 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile) has been dropped in favour of Sergei [...]
Best Foreign Film Oscar longlist announced
According to the Hollywood Reporter, a record 63 films are on the initial longlist for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. The full list is here, and these are the Central and Eastern European submissions: Azerbaijan: Caucasia (d. Farid Gumbatov) Bosnia and Herzegovina: It's Hard to Be Nice/Teško je biti fin (d. Srđan Vuletić) - [...]