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Vladan Petkovic


1732 articles available in total starting from 06/03/2008. Last article published on 25/06/2025.

Petersen goes biographical in engaging Avalon

The winner of the Discovery FIPRESCI prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, Axel Petersen’s Avalon is an engaging film about terribly repulsive characters. In a word, as Scandinavian as...  

17/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Forum/Sweden

Marsh excels with Shadow Dancer

The new film by Academy Award-winning English director James Marsh lends a subtler approach to Northern Ireland than we are used to. Yes, all the elements are there - rebellion, revenge, guilt,...  

16/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Out of competition/UK/Ireland

Dollhouse improvisations

The third feature film by Kristen Sheridan (daughter of more famous Jim) Dollhouse is apparently a mostly improvised piece about familiar characters in a familiar setting. While it is...  

14/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Panorama | Ireland

Everybody in Our Family capable of violence

Everybody in Our Family, Radu Jude’s follow-up to The Happiest Girl in the World has many of the characteristics the new Romanian cinema, but wraps them into a more violent story than is usually...  

13/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Forum - Romania/Netherlands

Spain is too far away for some

Anja Salomonovitz’s second feature film Spain is a road movie that without movement, with multiple storylines and a temporal surprise, in addition to being an immigration story, which is already a...  

13/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Forum | Austria

Iron Sky delivers…for the time being

One of the year’s most eagerly expected films for genre aficionados, Timo Vuorensola’s Iron Sky premiered in Berlin and, according to reactions, delivered the goodies. The film does work and is...  

13/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Panorama Special - Finland/Australia/Germany

Old and new Kuma

The selection of Kuma as the Panorama opening film at this year’s Berlinale may seem a strange choice. Umut Dag’s feature film debut is a story about a Turkish family in Vienna, so it is fairly...  

11/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Panorama | Austria

The choices they made in Formentera

German director Ann-Kristin Reyels’ first feature film Hounds won the Berlinale Forum FIPRESCI prize in 2007, and she returns to the same section with Formentera, an intimate film about a...  

10/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Forum/Germany

Slovenian Film Centre splits €4m between nine feature films

The Slovenian Film Centre has announced the results of its 2011 public competition for funding of film projects. These include projects by award-winning Nejc Gazvoda (A Trip) and Vinko...  

02/02/2012 | Funding | Slovenia

Bosnia and Herzegovina to become full member of MEDIA in 2012

Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has taken over the presidency of the European Audiovisual Observatory for 2012, is expected to become a full member of the MEDIA Programme by the end of the year. The...  

31/01/2012 | Funding | Bosnia and Herzegovina

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