FESTIVALS: Kustendorf Film & Music Festival 2024 Ready to Start
BELGRADE: Seventeen titles selected from among 536 submitted films will take part in the Competition programme of the 17th edition of the Kustendorf Film & Music Festival, which will be…
FNE Correspondent Zoran Janković Co-Author of Critical Guide to Serbian Film 2018-2022
BELGRADE: Serbian film critics Zoran Janković and Đorđe Bajić are the authors of a new book with critical texts about all Serbian feature films shown in regular cinema distribution or…
Lost Country by Vladimir Perišić Shortlisted for 2023 Arab Critics' Awards for European Films
BELGRADE: The French/Serbian/Luxembourg/Croatian coproduction Lost Country directed by Serbian director Vladimir Perišić is among the three titles shortlisted for the 2023 Arab Critics' Awards for European Films, which were launched…
GRANTS: Film Center Serbia Announces Results in Five Major Grants Categories
BELGRADE: Film Center Serbia has allotted grants in 14 categories, including 2,902,646 EUR / 340 m RSD for the production of feature films, feature films for children and young audience,…
PRODUCTION: Serbian Director Vladimir Tagić Shoots Yugo Florida, Serbian/Montenegrin/Croatian/ Bulgarian Coproduction
BELGRADE: Serbian director Vladimir Tagić, known for popular TV series Morning Changes Everything / Jutro će promeniti sve and Children of Evil / Deca zla, is currently shooting his debut…
BOX OFFICE: Guardians of the Formula Tops Serbian Charts by a Landslide
BELGRADE: Dragan Bjelogrlić’s Guardians of the Formula / Čuvari formule has been on top of the Serbian box office charts for the last few weeks in a row.
Serbian TV Drama Series Children of Evil Premieres Globally on HBO Max
BELGRADE: Serbian TV drama/thriller series Children of Evil / Deca zla directed by Ivan Stefanović and Vladimir Tagić had its world premiere on HBO Max on 2 November 2023. The…
PRODUCTION: Bulgarian Helmer Todor Chapkanov in Postproduction with Serbian/Bulgarian/Moldavian MEGDAN: Between Water and Fire
BELGRADE: Bulgarian director Todor Chapkanov is currently in postproduction with MEGDAN: Between Water and Fire / MEGDAN: Između vode i vatre, a sports drama he is also coproducing. The film…
PRODUCTION: Telekom Serbia Boards International Coproduction Series Scar
BELGRADE: The thriller TV series Scar / Cicatriz, which is currently in preproduction, is the first international TV series project of such magnitude for Telekom Serbia. The Spanish/Serbian/Mexican coproduction based…
BOX OFFICE: Serbian Film The Heroes of Halyard Tops Domestic Charts
BELGRADE: Serbian WWII epic Heroes of Halyard / Heroji Halijarda by Radoš Bajić tops the local box office in its first week with 21,239 admissions and 85,155 EUR / 9,980,739…
PRODUCTION: Latvian and Serbian Companies Attached to Kirill Serebrennikov’s New Project Disappearance
BELGRADE: Latvia’s Forma Pro Films and Serbia’s Red Production are on board as producer and coproducer, respectively, of the new film by Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, Disappearance / DSPR (working…
FNE Oscar Watch 2023: Serbia Selects The Duke and the Poet as Oscar Candidate
BELGRADE: The historical drama The Duke and the Poet / Sto se bore misli moje directed by Milorad Milinkovic has been selected as Serbia’s candidate for the 96th Academy of…
PRODUCTION: Serbian-Canadian Director Sanja Živković Shoots Cat’s Cry, in the Footsteps of Goran Paskaljević
BELGRADE: The Serbian-Canadian director Sanja Živković started shooting her sophomore feature Cat’s Cry / Mačiji krik, which was supposed to be directed by Goran Paskaljević. After the legendary director passed…
PRODUCTION: Serbian Director Pavle Vučković Starts Shooting Serbian/Macedonian/Montenegrin Coproduction Frost
BELGRADE: Serbian director Pavle Vučković commenced the production of his third feature Frost / Mraz, a universal story based on a myth from Eastern Serbia. The film is a coproduction…
GRANTS: Film Center Serbia Announces More Production Grants
BELGRADE: Film Center Serbia has announced the list of winners in eight more grant categories, including debut features, long documentaries, nationally-themed features, and potentially commercial and/or genre features.
PRODUCTION: Serbian Drama Series Time of Death in Postproduction
BELGRADE: Serbian drama series Time of Death / Vreme smrti, directed by Ivan Živković and based on the bestseller by author and politician Dobrica Ćosić, is currently in postproduction. It…
PRODUCTION: Feature Film Vasilija the Beautiful Starts Shooting in Serbia
BELGRADE: Vasilija the Beautiful / Vasilija Prekrasna directed by Žikica Jovanović, Ivica Vidanović and Vlastimir Stevanović started shooting in Serbia. The film focuses on a child, which is a rarity…
Film Center Serbia Announces Grant Winners
BELGRADE: Film Center Serbia has announced the grant results regarding projects in several categories, including minority coproductions, fiction feature and long documentary. 477,548 EUR / 56 mil RSD have been…
PRODUCTION: Veteran Director Lordan Zafranović Shoots Serbian Feature Film The Children of Kozara
BELGRADE: Following a short shooting in the summer of 2022, more than 100 actors and 60 professionals are currently filming the Serbian feature and TV drama series The Children of…
Serbian/Slovenian Documentary Bottlemen Acquired Ahead of Sarajevo FF
BELGRADE: Nemanja Vojinović’s Serbian/Slovenian long documentary Bottlemen / Flašaroši has been acquired by the London-based Taskovski Film ahead of its world premiere at the Sarajevo Film Festival (11 – 18…