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Created: 06-02-2022 Written by Soul Food Films

Gli Anni Belli is hitting Italian cinemas on 7th February

After a successful premiere in Cinema Troisi in Rome on 31st January, followed by tour through Milano, Torino, Florence, Bologna and other major cities, coming-of-age comedy by Lorenzo dAmico De Carvalho, Gli anni belli, is being released in cinemas in Italy starting 7th February.

Created: 25-01-2022 Written by Trieste FF

As Far As I Can Walk wins Special Mention at Trieste FF

STRAHINJA BANOVIĆ by Stefan Arsenijević won Special Mention at 33rd Trieste FF "for its humanistic story – in which one of today’s burning topics in Europe merges with a love of epic proportions – and the strongly cinematic language which Stefan Arsenijević used to tell it."

Created: 14-11-2021 Written by Festival Del Cinema Europeo

Only Human by Igor Ivanov wins two awards in Lecce!!!

Only Human wins Audience Award and Cineuropa Award at 22nd edition of Festival Del Cinema Europe held 6-13 November in Lecce, Italy.“The film shows six faces, six episodes linked through a dark comic thread. Lost characters met inconsistently in a modern metropolis in the all-round quest for means to survive. The unemployed graduate becomes undertaker, the widow becomes a nun, priests gamble and the gangsters rule the city. Despite the tragedy, the film amuses and gives hope through the eyes of a child, when everything seems to be lost”.

Created: 28-08-2021 Written by Will Tizard

Variety: ‘As Far as I Can Walk’ Takes Top Prize at Karlovy Vary Film Festival

Migration drama “As Far as I Can Walk,” directed by Stefan Arsenijevic, won the top prize at the 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Saturday, commended by the critics for its nuanced portrayal of the realities of refugees’ lives. The joint Serbia/France/Luxembourg/Bulgaria/Lithuania production, starring Ibrahim Koma and Nancy Mensah-Offei and inspired by a Serbian medieval epic poem, also won the $25,000 Crystal Globe prize, best actor award for Koma, special jury mention for its lyrical cinematography by Jelena Stankovic, the Ecumenical Jury award and the Europa Cinemas Label jury prize.

Created: 28-08-2021 Written by Scott Roxborough

The Hollywood Reporter: ‘As Far As I Can Walk’ Wins 2021 Karlovy Vary Film Festival

As Far As I Can Walk, a contemporary re-imagining of a traditional medieval epic in which African migrants take the role of Serbian national heroes, has won this year’s Crystal Globe as the best film of the 2021 Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

Created: 28-08-2021 Written by Ben Dalton

ScreenDaily: Serbian refugee drama ‘As Far As I Can Walk’ wins five awards at Karlovy Vary 2021

Serbian refugee drama As Far As I Can Walk scored five prizes including the main Grand Prix – Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival awards this evening. Written and directed by Stefan Arsenijevic, the film also received the best actor award for Ibrahim Koma, and a special jury mention for Jelena Stankovic for cinematography, from the awards given out in the competition section. The film also received two non-statutory awards, from the ecumenical jury, and the Europa Cinemas Label award for best film from across the Crystal Globe and East of the West competitions. The Grand Prix comes with a $25,000 prize, shared equally between Arsenijevic and producer Miroslav Mogorovich.

Created: 27-08-2021 Written by Guy Lodge

Variety: Serbian Director Stefan Arsenijevic on Contemporary Refugee Story ‘As Far As I Can Walk’

Oscar-nominated director Stefan Arsenijević's film is vividly crafted and performed....

Created: 24-08-2021 Written by Vladan Petkovic

Cineuropa: Karlovy Vary Competition 2021- Review As Far As I Can Walk

Serbian director Stefan Arsenijević is back with a surprising concept and an accomplished film telling the story of two African refugees looking for their place in Europe

Created: 22-08-2021 Written by Alissa Simon

Variety: Serbian Director Stefan Arsenijevic on Contemporary Refugee Story ‘As Far As I Can Walk’

Serbian director Stefan Arsenijević is competing for Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s Crystal Globe with his second feature, “As Far As I Can Walk.” It’s a surprising and exhilarating blend of contemporary refugee story, love triangle and medieval Serbian poem.

Created: 22-12-2020 Written by Davide Abatescianni

Cineuropa: Stefan Arsenijevic's As Far As I Can Walk currently in post-production

The Serbian director's new feature, set for release in 2021, is a contemporary adaptation of the Serbia medieval epic poem "Banovic Strahinya"

Created: 10-11-2019 Written by Der Tagesspiegel

Love Cuts screened in Competition section of Cottbus International Film Festival

Love Cuts by Kosta Djordjevic was screened at Cottbus International FIlm Festival in Feature Film Competition section. Festival was held from 4-10th November in Cottbus, Germany.

Created: 31-10-2019 Written by Soul Food

Love Cuts wins two awards at Evolution Mallorca Film festival!

Love Cuts won the Best Feature Film Award and leading actress Kristina Jovanovic won the Best Actress Award at this year Evolution Mallorca Film Festival!

Created: 12-09-2019 Written by Soul Food

Love Cuts to be screened in Competition section of Oscar Qualifying New Orleans FF, USA

Love Cuts by Kosta Djordjevic is to be screened at the 30th New Orleans Film Festival in the USA. The 30th edition of prestigious, Oscar Qualifying film festival will be held 16-23 October 2019.

Created: 11-09-2019 Written by Damijan Vinter

FNE Daily: I am Frank by Metod Pevec in competition of Slovenian Film Festival in Portoroz

PORTOROŽ: Metod Pevec's seventh feature film I Am Frenk / Jaz sem Frenk will be screened in the competition of the 22nd Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož (17-22 September 2019). This Slovenian/Croatian/Serbian/Macedonian coproduction is a story of two brothers as dissimilar as if each of them came from a different corner of the divided Slovenian society.

Created: 22-08-2019 Written by Sarajevo FF

Rounds wins two awards at Sarajevo FF!

Rounds wins Heart of Sarajevo Award for the Best Actress - Irini Jambonas and Cineuropa Award

Created: 20-08-2019 Written by Soul Food

LOVE CUTS (Reži) in Competition of Nis FF (Niski filmski sustreti)

LOVE CUTS (Reži) in Competition of Nis - Actors' Film Festival to be held 24-29 August 2019

Created: 18-08-2019 Written by Sarajevo FF

The world premiere of "Rounds" by Stephan Komandarev held tonight at Sarajevo FF Competition

The film by Stephan Komandarev premiered tonight at 19:40 at the National Theatre. ROUNDS is the second installment of the planned trilogy. The main cast of the first installment, DIRECTIONS, which was shown at the Sarajevo Film Festival two years ago, won the Festival's Special Jury Prize.

Created: 22-07-2019 Written by Soul Food

The Last Serb in Croatia wins five Golden Arenas at 66th Pula Film Festival!

Pula, Croatia: This year, film The Last Serb in Croatia by Predrag Ličina won five Golden Arenas at 66th Pula Film Festival. Winners: Hristina Popović for Best Actress Selena Orb for Best Costume Design Miroslav Lakobrija and Svetlana Gutić for Best Make-Up Jana Piacun for Best Production Design

Created: 22-07-2019 Written by Soul Food

Predrag Ličina wins The Breza Award for best debutant at 66th Pula Film Festival

The Breza Award for best debutant is awarded to Predrag Ličina for the film The Last Serb in Croatia at 66 Pula Film Festival

Created: 22-07-2019 Written by Soul Food

LOVE CUTS screened in Competition section of 50. Giffoni Film Festival, Italy

LOVE CUTS by Kosta Đorđević, was screened in Competition section 16+ of 50. Giffoni Film Festival held in Giffoni Valle Piana 19-27th July.

Created: 23-06-2019 Written by Soul Food

Love Cuts wins Honorable Mention by the Grand Jury at the Dances With Films FF in Hollywood!

Love Cuts by Kosta Djordjevic premiered in the Main Competition Program of the 21st Dances With Films FF in Hollywood and won Honorable Mention by the Grand Jury!

Created: 23-05-2019 Written by FNE staff

Film New Europe in Cannes: Ivan Marinović Wins 13th Edition of ScriptEast!

CANNES 2019: Forever Hold Your Peace by Ivan Marinović from Montenegro won the Krzysztof Kieślowski ScripTeast Award 2019 for the Best Eastern European Script at Cannes on 21 May 2019. The award came with a prize of 10,000 EUR.

Created: 22-05-2019 Written by Film New Europe

LOVE CUTS (Reži) by Kosta Djordjevic competes for Golden Arena at 66th Pula Film Festival!

PULA: Eight Croatian films and six minority coproductions will compete for Golden Arenas at the 66th Pula Film Festival, which takes place 13 to 21 July 2019. More than 130 films were submitted after a public call for participation in Croatia’s national festival.

Created: 03-04-2019 Written by Cinesquare

Jan Cvitkovic "The Basics of Killing" receives the Special mention at SEE online Film Festival

The second edition of the "See Online Film Festival" is officially closed. The jury: Theo Votsos, Maja Bogojević and Nikolay Mutafchiev has decided, and the winners of this edition are: Best feature film: Amerika Square (Greece) Directed by: Yannis Sakaridis Best animation film: The Blissful Accidental Death (Romania) Directed by: Sergiu Negulici Best short film: The Award (Macedonia) Directed by: Lidija Mojsovska Best documentary film: Lord of the House (Kosovo) Directed by: Daniëlle Bremer Special Mentions: The Basic of Killing (Serbia, Slovenia) Directed by: Jan Cvitkovic Too Much Info Clouding Over My Head (Greece) Directed by:Vasilis Christofilakis The Same (Serbia) Directed by: Dejan Petrovic Big thanks to all the participants in this spring edition and to all the viewers who were active on our platform and watched the films from this edition. Till next summer edition.

Created: 04-03-2019 Written by Cineuropa by Vladan Petkovic

Belgrade IFF FEST 2019 Review - LOVE CUTS by Kosta Djordjevic

Kosta Djordjević's second feature tells the story of one fateful day in the life of a Belgrade teenage girl

Created: 17-02-2019 Written by BaNeFF

The Frog by Elmir Jukic won The Best film Award at BaNeFF 2019 in Stockholm

The Frog by Elmir Jukic won The Best film Award at the 8th BaNe film festival in Stockholm. Here is the part of the motivation by the jury: “The Frog” is a master piece of filming and acting. Every frame is meaningful, and every word in the dialogue matters. It goes to the core of the trauma caused by violent conflict in the region. This trauma is present or in the background one way or another in many of the films of the festival. But in The Frog the emotional inner life is portrayed in all its dimensions yet with simplicity of means....

Created: 17-02-2019 Written by BaNeFF

The film Agape and director Branko Schmidt won The Festival Prince Award at BaNeFF 2019 in Stockholm

The FESTIVAL PRICE BaNeFF 2019 goes to the movie AGAPE and director Branko Schmidt, as movie that embodies the festivals spirit of innovation and courage to take on controversial topics. Director received the award together with the producer of the film Stanko Babic

Created: 03-12-2018 Written by R.D. / klix.ba

Irena Kovačić - Best Actress of the Mostar FF

Mostar Film Festiival, festival of film acting, has closed its 12.edition - awards for Frano Mašković and Irena Kovačeviić.

Created: 17-09-2017 Written by Otranto FF

Golden Lighthouse for Requiem for Mrs.J. and Silver Light for The Black Pin at Otranto FF!

Two titles form Soul Food's lineup win awards at Otranto!

Created: 12-09-2017 Written by by Politika

“Requiem For Mrs. J.” is Serbian candidate for Oscar award

Serbia's Academy of Film Art and Science announced in September that the latest film of young director Bojan Vuletic “Requiem For Mrs. J.” was selected as Serbian candidate for the Oscar award, in category for Best Foreign Language Film. From its premier at Berlin Film Festival in February 2017, “Requiem For Mrs. J.” participated on over twenty festivals and won numerous awards.

Created: 04-09-2017 Written by ffm-montreal.org

Irena Kovačević won The Best Actress Award in Montreal

The Basics of Killing by Jan Cvitkovič won The Best Actress Award for Irena Kovačević at the Montreal WFF where the film had its world premiere in Competition Program.

Created: 23-08-2017 Written by filmneweurope.com

Requiem for Mrs. J. among thirteen films from CEE region in 2017 EFA Selection

BERLIN: Thirteen majority and minority coproductions from CEE countries are among the 51 titles in EFA Feature Film Selection, the list of feature fiction films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2017. The over 3,000 members of the European Film Academy will vote for the nominations in the categories European Film, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenwriter. The nominations will be announced at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain on 4 November 2017. A seven-member jury will decide the awards in the categories European Cinematographer, Editor, Production Designer, Costume Designer, Hair & Make-up Artist, Composer and Sound Designer. The 30th European Film Awards will take place in Berlin on 9 December 2017.

Created: 18-08-2017 Written by sff.ba

The Frog by Elmir Jukic wins Audience Award in Sarajevo

Following the official award ceremony of the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival, held in the National Theater in Sarajevo, the audience vote was presented at midnight. Film fans of the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival have spoken – Audience Award goes to: Feature Film: THE FROG

Created: 03-05-2017 Written by Martin Blaney, screendaily.com

Serbia's "Requiem For Mrs J." wins top prize at goEast

Bojan Vuletic’s second feature Requiem For Mrs J. has become the first Serbian film in the history of the goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film’s 17 years to win the top award, the €10,000 Golden Lily, for best film in Wiesbaden’s competition. The co-production between Serbia’s SEE Film Pro, Bulgaria’s Geopoly Film, FYR Macedonia’s Skopje Film Studio, France’s Surprise Alley and Russia’s Non-Stop Production had had its world premiere at the Berlinale’s Panorama section in February and is in the sales line-up of Belgrade-based Soul Food Films.

Created: 11-02-2017 Written by Hollywood Reporter

'Requiem for Mrs. J': Film Review | Berlin 2017

A grieving widow resorts to extreme measures in Serbian director Bojan Vuletic's Kafkaesque comedy, a Panorama premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.
A severely depressed widow lives a life of quiet desperation in Requiem for Mrs. J, one of the more pleasantly surprising oddities to premiere at the Berlinale so far. With its fatalistic mood, lethargic pace and washed-out color palette, Serbian writer-director Bojan Vuletic's somber comedy initially feels like the kind of relentlessly grim Eastern Bloc art house misery porn that was once designed to suck all the joy out of serious-minded film festival programs. But there is something much more playful and affirmative going on below the surface here, a stifled scream of defiant humanity against a mercilessly cruel universe.

Created: 09-02-2017 Written by Santa Barbara Independent

SBIFF: Day 8 Festival as Melting Pot

Speaking of cinematic voices from other lands, two of the strong films caught in yesterday’s schedule were from “over there” in old and older Europe — the Montenegro/Serbian film The Black Pin and Italy’s fascinating and refreshingly unusual/slightly experimental Indivisible, both well worth seeking out. Writer-director Ivan Marinovic has created a charming, funny, and bittersweet slice of Balkan village life with The Black Pin — so named for a provincial ceremony by which a witch is identified. A woman deemed by some as a witch has died, and the pending funeral, along with a real estate scheme subplot and a salty-tongued priest, keeps the screen buzzing in a contemporary-meets-folkoric way.

Created: 25-01-2017 Written by 67th Berlinale

Requiem for Mrs J. - selected for Berlinale Panorama Special !

Berlinale officially announced that Requiem for Mrs J. will have its world premiere at 67th Berlinale in Panorama Special selection.
"These include works like the Spanish debut feature Pieles (Skins) by Eduardo Casanova, Rekvijem za gospodju J. (Requiem for Mrs. J.) by Serbia’s Bojan Vuletić, Ferenc Török’s 1945 from Hungary and God's Own Country, Francis Lee’s feature-film debut from United Kingdom. Teona Mitevska returns with a bitter depiction of Macedonian adolescents trying to get their bearings in When the Day Had no Name. Also returning to Panorama are Norwegians Ole Giæver, with the emancipatory and philosophical self-examination Fra balkongen (From the Balcony), and Erik Poppe with Kongens Nei (The King's Choice), which deals with the Norwegian king’s resistance to the German armed forces in World War II."

Created: 22-11-2016 Written by CINEDAYS

The film “Humidity” by Nikola Ljuca got the “Golden Star” award for Best Film

Like every year, at the festival’s closing ceremony we announce the awards. This year, the awards went to: The film “Humidity” by Nikola Ljuca got the “Golden Star” award for Best Film in the Official selection at the Festival of European Film Cinedays 2016.

The awards tonight were announced by the jury consisted of Cedomir Kolar, one of the exceptional producers in the Hollywood film industry and chairman of the jury, Zrinko Ogresta, screenwriter and director, professor of film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb and member of the European Film Academy in Berlin and the Macedonian director Igor Ivanov – Izi.

Created: 22-11-2016 Written by Independent.mk

Macedonia's Nikola Ristanovski Wins Best Actor Award at 4th Bosphorus Film Festival

Nikola Ristanovski scooped the Golden Dolphin award for best actor at the fourth International Bosphorus Film Festival held in Istanbul for his starring role in The Black Pin – a debut feature film by Montenegrin director Ivan Marinovic. The film got its world premiere at the Sarajevo Film Festival, followed by festivals in the United States and Australia. Macedonian film­-goers had the chance to see the movie at the 15th CineDays Festival of European Cinema. Nikola Ristanovski stars as Father Peter who stands in the way of the inhabitants of a small village on a peninsula by refusing to sell his part of a property belonging to the parish. He also has to deal with his mother’s deteriorating mental health while questioning his own faith. The Black Pin has been submitted by Montenegro to vie for an Academy Award in the foreign language category.

Created: 21-11-2016 Written by FilmNewEurope.com

FNE at Cinedays 2016: Humidity Wins Best Film Award in Skopje

SKOPJE: The Serbian/Dutch/Greek coproduction Humidity / Vlažnost, directed by Nikola Ljuca, scooped the best film award in the official selection of the 15th Festival of European Film Cinedays, which closed on 19 November 2016. Director Nikola Ljuca receiving the Golden Star AwardThe jury stated, “The film managed to disfigure modern marriage, showing the absurd and hypocrisy that present generations are faced with in the attempts to maintain traditional norms and values.” Maren Ade won the best screenplay award for Toni Erdmann and Attila Till received the best director award for his film Kills on Wheels. The main competition jury was composed of producer Chedomir Kolar, screenwriter and director Zdrinko Ogresta and director Igor Ivanov.

Created: 25-06-2016 Written by Variety

Serbian director Nicola Ljuca’s ‘Humidity’ takes Special Jury mention

Cinema Jove’s special jury mention went to Serbian director Nicola Ljuca’s “Humidity” which world premiered at the Berlin’s 2016 Forum.

Movie turns on a successful businessman whose wife disappears, a fact he tries to hide. Why he does so gives the film much of its tension, as it opens up to become a portrait of his family, friends, business and Belgrade politics. Ljuca has described the film as a portrait of a generation which opposed Slobodan Milosevic and seemed poised to change Serbia after his fall in 2000, but instead went into business as capital flowed into Serbia.

Created: 02-04-2015 Written by SoulFoodFilms

No One's Child Wins The Belgrade FEST

In the National Competition of the 43rd FEST – Belgrade International Film Festival (27 February–8 March),No One's Child by Vuk Ršumović received the Belgrade Victor for Best Film. The Best Actor Award went to the movie's star, 15-year-old Denis Murić. The title also won the honorary Nebojsa Djukelić Foundation Award for an especially significant film from the Balkan region.

Created: 12-12-2014 Written by SoulFoodFilms

3rd AUDIENCE AWARD FOR NO ONE`S CHILD !!!

No One`s Child received the Audience Award at the REC.Tarragona International Film Festival in Spain!

This is the third Audience Award for No One`s Child after the main award of Venice International Film Critics` Week- RaroVideo Audience Award and the Audience Award at Zagreb Film Festival.


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