FNE at Berlinale 2018: Serbian Film in Berlin
Meet Film Center Serbia at Berlinale - FILM CENTER SERBIA AT BERLINALE EUROPEAN FILM MARKET (EFM) Martin Gropius Bau / stand #G3
Serbia Increases Tax Rebates
BELGRADE: Serbia has increased its cash rebate for film production from 20% to 25%, according to an offical announcement. The rebate applies to qualified Serbian spend for feature films, TV…
Arclight Films Acquires Ederlezi Rising Ahead of its Serbian Premiere
BELGRADE: Independent sales company Arclight Films has acquired the rights for Ederlezi Rising by Lazar Bodroža, the first Serbian science fiction film. Arclight chairman Gary Hamilton announced that Ederlezi Rising…
OBITUARY: Serbian Actor Nebojsa Glogovac
BELGRADE: Popular Bosnian-born Serbian actor Nebojsa Glogovac, who recently starred in the awarded Constitution by Rajko Grlić, died in Belgrade at the age of 49 on 9 February 2018.
Alpha Violet Acquires Dovlatov Ahead of Its Berlin Premiere
BELGRADE: The Russian/Polish/Serbian coproduction Dovlatov directed by Aleksey German, Jr. has been acquired by the Paris-based sales company Alpha Violet ahead of its world premiere in the Competition of the…
FESTIVALS: The 46th FEST Ready to Start in Serbia
BELGRADE: The 46th edition of FEST, the largest and most popular film festival in Serbia, will screen 126 films from 23 February to 4 March 2018. Sixteen films are in…
PRODUCTION: Emir Kusturica Preps Chinese Coproduction
BELGRADE: Emir Kusturica is in preparation with Just One More Time, a feature film loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s works and his first collaboration with the Hong Kong-based Dirty Monkey…
FNE Country Report 2017: SERBIA
BELGRADE: For the second year in a row Film Center Serbia maintained its regular schedule of financial support contests and at the end of 2017 the Goverment granted a total…
Pluto Film Acquires Serbian/Macedonian The Witch Hunters
BELGRADE: Raško Miljković’s debut feature The Witch Hunters / Zlogonje has been acquired by the Berlin-based company Pluto Film and a market screening will take place during the 2018 Berlin…
Front Page Midgets Tops Serbian Box Office
BELGRADE: Front Page Midgets / Patuljci sa naslovnih strana by Milorad Milinković topped the Serbian box office during its first weekend. The film released by Taramount Film on 18 January…
PRODUCTION: Mladen Kovačević in Production with Serbian/French/Swedish Coproduction
BELGRADE: Mladen Kovačević is currently in production with his third long documentary Merry Christmas, Yiwu / Srećna Nova, Yiwu. This Serbian/French/Swedish coproduction is the first Serbian film ever to be…
PRODUCTION: Sequel to Serbian High School Hit to Be Shot in Spring 2018
BELGRADE: Next to Us / Pored nas, a sequel to the high school hit Next to Me / Pored mene (2015) will be shot in spring 2018 and released in…
Five Serbian Projects Pitched at First French-Serbian Coproduction Workshop in Paris
BELGRADE: Five new Serbian feature film projects were presented to potential French coproducers at the first French-Serbian coproduction workshop held at Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée in…
Premiere of First Serbian HBO Europe Coproduction
BELGRADE: Mila Turajlić’s sophomore long documentary The Other Side of Everything, a Serbian/French/Qatar coproduction and also the first HBO Europe coproduction with Serbia, will have its premiere on HBO Europe…
GRANTS: Film Center Serbia Announces Last Grants in 2017
BELGRADE: Film Center Serbia wrapped the 2017 funding year by distributing 1,596,760 EUR / 191 m RSD for the production of six feature films, eight minority coproductions, three experimental films…
GRANTS: Serbia Announces Grants
BELGRADE: Film Center Serbia distributed 609,238 EUR / 72,788,291 RSD in six categories: long documentary production, script development, short documentary production, short fiction film production, short animated film production and…
Serbia to Increase Tax Rebates
BELGRADE: Film Center Serbia plans to increase the percentage of its cash rebate for film production, from its present 20% on qualified Serbian spend for feature films, TV series, animation…
PRODUCTION: Miloš Avramović Shoots South Wind in Belgrade
BELGRADE: Eleven years after his first film, Miloš Avramović is shooting South Wind / Južni vetar, his sophomore feature. The film is an action thriller with strong social messages for…
PRODUCTION: Serbia’s First Sc-Fi Erderlezi Rising in Postproduction
BELGRAD: The first Serbian genuine science fiction film, Erdelezi Rising by Lazar Bodroža, is in postproduction and its authors are eyeing a world premiere at one of the major world…
FNE at Jihlava IDFF Emerging Producers 2018: Milan Stojanović, Serbia
BELGRADE: Milan Stojanovic represents Serbia at the Emerging Producers 2018 programme taking place at the Jihlava IDFF.
