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Merlinka Award for Best Queer Film Presented at FEST

The jury of the Merlinka Award, which has been awarded since 2018 for the best queer film at FEST, this year, gave the award to the Greek film The Summer with Carmen (To kalokairi tis Karmen) directed by Zacharias Mavroeidis. The jury consisted of: Dragan Jovićević, screenwriter and director, Predrag Azdejković, director of the Merlinka Festival and Milan Aranđelović, writer. In the explanation of the award, the jury says that because of the ...

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Hat trick for Mladen Đorđević ‘Russian Consul’ closes FEST

The best film according to the jury of the Main Competition Programme of the 52nd International Film Festival FEST is ‘The Owner’ by Yuri Bykov, and the most successful film of this yea's edition of FEST is ‘Working Class Goes to Hell’ (Radnička klasa ide u pakao) by Mladen Đorđević, which received as many as three awards, including the Belgrade Victor for Best Director, ...

Rodrigo Moreno's latest film ‘The Delinquents’ premieres at 52nd FEST

The film ‘The Delinquents’ (Los delincuentes), directed by Rodrigo Moreno, premiered before the festival’s audience at the 52nd International Film Festival FEST as part of the Main Competition Programme in the packed hall of the Cultural Centre of Belgrade on 2 March 2024. After the premiere, Argentinian actress Margarita Molfino presented the film ‘The Delinquents’ to the audience and had a ...

‘Russian Consul’ by Miroslav Lekić to end 52nd FEST

  The film ‘Russian Consul’ by Miroslav Lekić will be premiered at the closing ceremony of the 52nd International Film Festival FEST on Sunday evening (3 March 2024). In addition to director Miroslav Lekić, Vuk Drašković, the author of the novel of the same name on which the film was based, spoke about the film, as well as actors Nebojša Dugalić, ⁠Svetozar Cvetković and Visar Vishka, ⁠Paulina Manov and Danica Radulović. ...

FEST PRO interview: Zoran Bihać, director of music and advertising videos

The radio is only listened to in a taxi

German director of music and advertising videos of Serbian origin, Zoran Bihać, known to the public for his long-term cooperation with the rock band Rammstein and its singer Till Lindemann, but also with other musicians such as The Fantastic Four and Tokio Hotel. He worked on the campaign for the mega-popular video game ‘World of Tanks’, as well as numerous commercials ...

FEST Interview – Dr Ivana Kronja, Nebojša Đukelić Awards Jury President

Awards impact filmmakers’ careers

Dr Ivana Kronja is the president of the jury of the Nebojša Đukelić Awards competition programme, which chooses the best regional films. Kronja is a film theorist and film critic, and in recent years she has been a member of the jury at several film festivals in Serbia and the region (Infant, Motovun, FAF, LIFFE...) We talked to her about the jury, the Nebojša Đukelić Award and film ...

FEST PRO interview: Actor Lukas Loughran guest of FEST Pro

Serbs are good people who make good films

Swedish-Australian guest Lukas Loughran was invited to participate in the panels of the FEST PRO segment of the 52nd International Festival FEST on the topic of casting. In recent years, the award-winning Swedish-Australian actor played, among other things, in the TV series ‘Krypton’, the zombie apocalypse ‘Death Do Us Part’ (Zoo), ‘The Postcard Killings’, ...

Famous music video director Zoran Bihać and actor Lukas Loughran guests on third day of FEST PRO

The panel ‘The Job of a Casting Manager’, held on 1 March, was attended by Bojana Rnjak, an agent from Slavic Artists Management, Maria Christina Jarltoft, a casting director from Denmark, who also developed the casting application ‘Selfcast’, Anđela Stamenković, an actress and casting director from the casting agency ‘Sav taj glumac’, Lukas Loughran, actor, Adel ...

Premiere of film ‘That's It for Today’ in Main Competition Programme at 52nd FEST

  The film ‘That';s It for Today’ (Za danas toliko) by director and screenwriter Marko Đorđević premiered before film lovers as part of the Main Competition Programme in the MTS Hall on 1 March. The film cast and crew, director Đorđević, producer Miloš Pušić, actors Filip Đurić, Nikola Rakočević and Goran Bogdan, actresses Ivana Vuković and Miona Pejković presented this film a few hours ...

Ovations for ’Good Times, Bad Times’ by Nevio Marasović

The Croatian film ’Good Times, Bad Times’ (Pamtim samo sretne dane), directed by Nevio Marasović, had its premiere as part of the FEST Gala 52 programme on 1 March 2024, and it received ovations in the Cultural Centre of Belgrade Movie Theatre. Director Nevio Marasović, Croatian actor Zlatko Burić and assistant director Nikica Zdunić presented ’Good Times, Bad Times’, the last film of the late actor Radko ...

FEST PRO Interview – Lordan Zafranović

At this year's FEST Pro, the famous director, Lordan Zafranović, held a masterclass on the topic ‘The inner construction of the film’ in a packed hall. Apart from his lecture, we also talked with the director about his latest film ‘Zlatni rez 42’ (The golden cut 42), which will premiere in the fall of this year. Everyone who has worked with you says that you have a special gift for bringing out thebest in actors? How do ...

FEST interview: Goran Bogdan, most prolific actor of 52nd FEST

A bad film is hard to make, and a good one happens on its own

Croatian actor Goran Bogdan, who lives between Belgrade and Zagreb, has been a favorite of the local audience for years, and at this year's FEST, we will see him in several films and in several different roles, and fans of his work will enjoy the films ‘That's It for Today’ (Za danas toliko, Serbia), ‘Good Times, Bad Times’ (Pamtim samo ...