55th Festival closed! - Marko Jeftić, winner of GRAND PRIX, festival statuete and the prize in the amount of 3.000,00 euros for the best film in both competition closed this year's festival.

JURY DECISION ON AWARDED FILMS - Jury members of the  55th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival in the assembly: Juao Paolo Macedo (President of the Jury), Christl Grunwald Merz, Dana Budisavljević, Rastko Ćirić, Boris Mitić held the Final session after careful consideration of all films in competition ... [ read more ]

Jasmine Dellal, author of „Gipsy Caravan“ - One of the guests of the Festival of Documentary and Short Film is the author of the film about the Roma musical attraction „Gipsy Caravan“ Jasmine Dellal. - This is not the first time that I’m working with Roma. The film I made prior to this one is also about Roma and is called „American Gypsy ... [ read more ]

Kaveh Ghahreman, director of “River of Pain” - “River of Pain” is one of the films shot during the international camp “Interraction – Zlatibor 2007”, dealing with the subject of human and children’s rights, seen from the perspective of students and young artists from different countries worldwide. The young Iranian director ... [ read more ]

Samuel Tilman, director of „Dead End“ - This film is about personal relationships, but mostly about problems, lack of understanding and the vicious circle which romantically involved people fall into and have a hard time finding their way out. The film has been shown on the European festival of shorts “Reus”, near Barcelona ... [ read more ]

Grzegorz Koncewitz, author of the „Exit“ - The animated ilm „Exit“ of director Grzegorz Koncewitz has been shown on more than ifteen festivals throughout Europe. This ilm speaks about a certain disaster that grows into love and results in the blending of the imaginary and real worlds. „Working on this ilm was partially ... [ read more ]

Carlos Benpar: Cineastas contra magnates - The best documentary ilm for 2006 and the winner of the „Goya Award“ was conceived as early as back in 1986, after the congress in Barcelona organized by the most renown names of Catalonian ilm and who have iniated the debate about the protection of film ... [ read more ]

The 55th Festival of Documentary and Short Film begins - A ceremonial opening shall be held at 19.30h in the “Pozoriste na Terazijama” Theatre. The honor to open the Festival this year belongs to Mr. Marko Babac, this year’s recipient of the Life Achievement Award, after which the spectators will have the opportunity ... [ read more ]

The Serbian branch of FIPRESCI shall work in the following composition: Dubravka Vojvodic (Chairperson), Maja Volk, Srdjan Vucinic. The Jury will present the award for the Best Engaged Film shown on in the official program of the 55th Festival, regardless of the genre (documentary, short feature, animated, experimental.

On the eve of the 55th Belgrade Festival of Documentary and Short Film a press conference has been held in the City Hall. Journalists were addressed by Deputy Mayor of Belgrade Gorica Mojovic, Chairperson of the Selection Commission Nevena Dakovic ... [ read more ]

Ticket sales for the 55th Festival of Documentary and Short Film will begin on March 20th on the box offices of the Belgrade Cultural Center. The price of tickets is 100 dinars.

The 55th Belgrade Festival of Documentary and Short film will be held on March 26-30, 2008 under the slogan “All that is nice…” in the Cultural Center Hall and the Museum of the Yugoslav Film Archive. The ceremonial opening and closing of the Festival shall see the handing over of awards and the screening of the awarded films in the Theatre in Terazije. A significant number of authors are expected, as well as foreign and domestic critics.

The Committee of the Festival has unanimously decided that this year’s Life Achievement Award be awarded to renown film author and pedagogue Marko Babac. The monograph about his life and creative path will also be promoted during the Festival.

The Committee of the Festival has also launched a competition for the conceptual design of the following, 56th Festival. Participants in the competition will be students of the Faculty of Applied Arts and the BK Academy. During the Festival an exhibition of works notified shall be held and the victorious design will be promoted on the final festival evening.

Domestic and foreign films from the competition program are divided by blocks: documentary, animated, experimental and short feature. The Selection Commission in the composition: Nevena Daković, Jovan Todorović and Goran Mitrović has made a selection of the domestic competition program, consisting of ... [ read more ]