Under the slogan
"Friendship. Forever. PriFest", the 8th
edition of
Prishtina
International Film Festival
opens its doors today with an 8-day
international
program and parallel activities.
During the
week of 22-29 April, some 80 films will be screened in various
programs in competition and non-competition. All of them, premieres
in Kosovo and a number of them regional, European, International
premieres including two that will be World Premieres within this
festival.
European
competition programme
this year comes with films that not only grabbed attention of the
film industry world and the film critics, but also brought a new
style and wave in film making. Three regional premieres out of 7
films in this category along with Mediterranea and other premieres
will compete in front of international jury to win the Golden Goddess
for the Best European Film. Intriguing, daring, happy, melancholic,
traditional and sexy. The selection in this category will bring to
the audience of PriFest the best taste of the latest entries of
European cinema.
Eleven documentary
films in total, 2 world premieres, one European premiere and one
regional premiere is the setting of this year’s PriDocs.
The documentary programme of PriFest this year will bring all the
colours of documentary section coming from places like Estonia,
Croatia, Romania, Turkey, and all the way to Palestine and USA.
Modris by Juris Kursietis
Honey &
Blood Competition
- Balkan film competition - the main program of the festival, and
Middle
Length Competition,
are veterans of Prishtina International Film Festival.
Honey &
Blood Competition is
the presentation and competition of 10 Balkan films. Films from
Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro,
Romania, Greece etc. will showcase their styles, concepts and
realities in the region, after which they will be evaluated by three
juries: the international jury of the festival, which is made up of
three members; the Fipresci critics΄ international jury, which is
established in a festival in Kosovo for the first time and it chose
to be at PriFest; and the media jury, which has been a part of
PriFest for many years now, comprised mainly of journalists from
Kosovo. All films within this category are premieres in Kosovo.
PriFest also welcomes the screening of the regional premiere of the
film "The Good Wife", director debut by the renowned
actress Mirjana Karanovic that had world premiere in Sundance this
year. We cannot go without also mentioning the film "Death in
Sarajevo" by Oscar winning director Danis Tanovic, movie that
recently had the world premiere at Berlinale, winning the Silver
Bear. Many awards will be given to this category, making it one of
the
most important ones
in the festival.
In the
Middle-Length Competition
11 films have been selected this year, all premieres in Kosovo, and
two of them regional premieres. The competition in this category is
for the Silver Goddess; won by the best middle-length film.
Focus programme
is
one of the many interesting spaces within PriFest, as in the context
it represents, it changes in every edition. This year, winners of the
FIPRESCI Prize from different world festivals will be in
focus,
whereas Focus USA will showcase American cinema.
Prishtina
International Film Festival has continuously expressed its support to
the LGBT community, being the first festival in the country to
provide a special space for cinema dedicated to the subject of
exploration and acceptance of sexual identity and diversity, with the
Let
It Be program.
Many films can
resemble the British style, but authentic British films are like no
other. British
Night, now
a tradition at PriFest, has always provided the creme-de-la-creme of
British cinema. This has been made possible by its partners, the
British Council and the British Embassy Kosovo.
The last program
made public is that of the Swiss
Night,
presented for the first time at this year΄s edition of PriFest.
The Network by Claudiu Mitcu
PriFest
also
hosts PriFORUM,
an industry platform of the festival and meeting point of regional
filmmakers, which
is extended this year to more days within the dates of the festival
22-29 April. Many debates, workshops, training and other activities
are expected to happen between 23-27 April at PriFORUM including the
new ones Prishtina Rendezvous which will be an important activity for
producers that wish to meet distributors and sales.
The Best
Pitch Award
will be handed by the International Jury to the best presentation of
a first feature fiction film project. Projects
selected to be part of Best Pitch for this year are:
Broken,
Macedonia
with director Marko Crnogorski and producer Vladimir Stojcevski
Open Door,
cooperation
between Albania and Italy, director Florenc Papas and producer Eno
Milkani.
The Witch
Hunter, from
Serbia with director Rasko Miljkovic and producer Jovana Karaulic.
Three Lions
Heading Venice, from
Albania, director Jonid Jorgji and producer Elkjana Gjipali.
Grandfather and
his Grandson, from
Macedonia with director Illja Piperkoski and producer Ognen Antov.
Pledge
from Kosovo with director and producer Valon Jakupaj and scriptwriter
Dituri Neziraj.
Perhaps,
from Macedonia and Kosovo with director Kastriot Abdyli, and producer
Simeon Damevski.
After the
Winter,
film project from Montenegro with director Ivan Bakrac and producer
Ivan Djurovic.
Vera Dreams of
the Sea,
Kosovo project with director Kaltrina Krasniqi and producer Shkumbin
Istrefi.
Why Me? by Tudor Giurgiu
Balkan films and
documentaries at PriFest 2016:
European Film
Competition
Modris by Juris
Kursietis, Latvia/Germany/Greece, 2014
Mustang by Deniz
Gamze Ergüven, France/Germany/Turkey/Qatar, 2015
PriDocs
Paths by Mevlan
Shanaj, Albania, 1996/2015
Missing Times by
Faysal Soysal, Turkey, 2015
I like that super
most the best by Eva Kraljević, Croatia, 2015
The Network by
Claudiu Mitcu, Romania/Hungary, 2015
Making of thinking
of you by Fitim Shala, Kosovo*, 2015
Middle Length
Competition
A Surplus of Wind
by Dane Komljen, France/Bosnia & Hercegovina/Serbia, 2014
Shooting Star by
Lyubo Yonchev, Bulgaria/Italy, 2015
The Last Act by
Dina Duma, FYROM, 2014
Balkan Film
Competition "Honey & Blood"
A Good Wife by
Mirjana Karanović, Serbia/Bosnia and Herzegovina/Croatia, 2016
The High Sun by
Dalibor Matanic, Croatia/Serbia/Slovenia, 2015
Why me? by Tudor
Giurgiu, Romania/Bulgaria/ Hungary, 2015 Death in Sarajevo by Danis
Tanovic, Bosnia and Hercegovina/France, 2016
A Blast by Syllas
Tzoumerkas, Greece/Germany/Netherlands, 2014
Sivas by Kaan
Müjdeci, Turkey, 2014
The Judgement by Stephan
Komandarev, Bulgaria,
2014
The kids from Marx and Engels Street by
Nikola
Vukcevic, Montenegro, 2014
Our
Everyday Life by Ines
Tanović,
Bosnia and Herzegovina/Slovenia/Croatia, 2015
Special
Screenings
Alone by Jeton
Lakna, Kosovo, 2015
PriFest
2014 full
list of films
Source: PriFest
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