From
18 to 24 of July, the 22nd
European Film Festival Palić will screen over 80 films within 7 sections and additional programs. All the films will be screened at various locations in the Northern Serbian towns of Palić and Subotica.
Official Selection will screen twelve films in the competition and two out of the competition, taking the audience on a journey through the modern life and the contemporary artistic expression of Europe. Among the authors in the Official Selection, the festival presents both confirmed masters and debutants whose opuses follow in the future. Two Balkan productions compete in the section:
Panama by
Pavle Vučković (Serbia, 2015) and
The World is Mine by
Nicolae Constantin Tanase (Romania, 2015)
Panama by Pavle Vučković (Serbia, 2015)
Competition programme Parallels and Encounters is dedicated to feature films from former Eastern European geopolitical region, films particularly attractive for their extraordinary visual aesthetics that enabled authors to express deep emotions of their stories about human destinies.
The
Official Selection Jury is comprised of Croatian writer and journalist Boris Dežulović, Christian Jeune, head of Cannes’ Film Department, Dome Karukoski, renown Finish director, Hungarian filmmaker Ágnes Kocsis, Slovak director Mira Fornay and actors Johannes Kunhke from Sweden and
Sergej Trifunović from Serbia.
A critics Jury will decide upon the Parallels and Encounters programme and it will be consisting of Michael Pattison (UK), György Báron (HU) and Vladimir Džudović (SRB).
Aferim! by Radu Jude (Romania/Bulgaria/Czech Republic, 2015)
A number of Balkan films, all of them from the countries of former Yugoslavia, will comprise the Special Screenings programme:
This year’s Aleksandar Lifka award laureates are renown Serbian filmmaker
Želimir Žilnik and Swedish director Roy Andersson.
Homage to the Lifka Award Laureates program will present their most successful works.
On the sidebar events, Palic Film Fest 2015 is organizing a round table on GMO΄s (the festival’s round table themes are regularly interwoven with the problems and issues Eco Documentaries lay), a panel discussion on the New Wave of Spanish film and a workshop on film reviews.