Film Festival of Serbia

Film Festival of Serbia ( _sr. Филмски фестивал Србије / Filmski festival Srbije) is annual national film festival featuring movies made in Serbia during previous year.

The 2008 edition of the festival will take place from June 14-21st. This time named "Cinema City Film & New Media festival", it is hosted solely by organizers of the EXIT festival, which was co-organizer previous year. There are some changes in award line-up, as this time there will also be an Award for Special Contribution to the Contemporary Film Expression, as well as an award for the best movie with budget lower than USD 10.000.

2007

With first edition held in Novi Sad July 3- 8th 2007, 6-days long festival presented new concept in organisation of film festivals in Serbia. Center of the city is converted into festival area, with programs on 10 locations.

National class (Serbian: Nacionalna klasa) was the main competition program, made of feature length films made in Serbia. Prize of the festival is named Ibis, being awarded in 14 categories (the best movie - Grand prix of the festival, the best directing, script, cinematography, original music, leading male role, leading female role, supporting male role, supporting female role, editing, sound, scene design, costume design and the best make- up). Beside those, Ibis for life- achievement and the Audience award is also announced.

Special program of the Festival is made of non-Serbian films funded by Eurimages fund of the Council of Europe, and Best film is also announced in this category.

Awards

*Best movie - Grand prix: "Bel epok" (director: Nikola Stojanović)
*Best directing: Sabolč Tolnai
*Script: Uglješa Šajtinac/ Dejan Nikolaj Kraljačić
*Cinematography: Milad Tauk
*Original music: Arsen Dedić
*Leading male performance: Kenedi Hasani
*Leading female performance: Vita Mavrič
*Supporting male performance: Petar Božović
*Supporting female performance: Milena Vasić Ražnatović
*Editing: Aleksandar Rajković
*Sound design: Lukas Grgozevski
*Scene design: Miodrag Nikolić
*Costume design: Jelena Petrović
*Make- up: Milena Stefanović/ Tamara Spasojević

*Best movie - Eurimages programme: "Trans" by Tereze Vilaverde

ee also

*List of film festivals in Europe
*List of Serbian films

External links

* [http://www.cinemacity.org/ Official website 2008]
* [http://www.filmskifestivalsrbije.org Official website 2007]
* [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117967568.html?categoryId=13&cs=1 Variety]
* [http://www2.dw-world.de/serbian/kultur/1.225429.1.html Deutsche Welle]
* [http://www.dnevnik.co.yu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25819 Dnevnik]