BELGRADE: Film Center Serbia has announced production grants for feature films, nationally-themed feature films, potentially commercial (repertoire) and/or genre features, as well as for debut features. A total of 2,812,8120 EUR / 330.3 m RSD were allocated.

BELGRADE: Young Serbian director Emilija Gašić, who has recently graduated form the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, commenced shooting her debut feature 78 Days / 78 dana on 7 June 2022. The production supported by Film Center Serbia started on locations in the vicinity of the Serbian town and spa centre of Vrnjačka Banja.

NOVI SAD: Approximately 400,000 EUR / 47.4 m RSD have been distributed as production grants by the Provincial Government of Vojvodina through the Provincial Secretariat for Culture, Public Information and Relations with Religious Communities.

BELGRADE: Mladen Kovačević’s long documentary Another Spring got snatched by the London-based sales company Taskovski Films Ltd. ahead of its world premiere in the newly-founded Proxima competition of the 56th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (1-9 July 2022). Another Spring is a Serbian/French coproduction.

BELGRADE: Serbian actor/director Dragan Bjelogrlić started the production of his latest feature Chain Reaction / Lančana reakcija in Belgrade on the eve of 18 May. The film is being made as a coproduction of Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro and North Macedonia.

BELGRADE: Beldocs, the boutique Eastern European film festival focusing on non-fiction cinema, ended yet another in-person edition on Wednesday 18 May 2022 in Belgrade’s Youth Hall with the award ceremony.

BELGRADE: Serbia had 3,355,838 admissions in 2021 compared to 1,579,485 in 2020, due to domestic blockbusters distributed during the autumn of 2021. Sixteen Serbian films were released in 2021 and had 1,281,304 admissions.

BELGRADE: Broadcasting rights for all the three seasons of the popular Serbian spy thriller TV series Civil Servant / Državni službenik have recently been sold to several international markets. The series is created by Predrag Gaga Antonijević and Dimitrije Vojnov.

BELGRADE: Beldocs, the boutique Eastern European film festival focusing on non-fiction cinema, has unveiled a strong lineup for its yet another in-person edition running in Belgrade 11-18 May 2022.

BELGRADE: Dušan Milić’s latest feature film Darkling, winner of the Audience Award at the 2022 Trieste Film Festival, will be released by Lo Scrittoio in cinemas in 16 Italian towns in the next two weeks. The film is a Serbian/Bulgarian/Danish/Italian/Greek coproduction.