14/07/2010

Founded in 1992, the Palic Film Festival near Subotica, in northernmost Serbia, in 2003 became the Festival of European Film Palic and a member of the European Coordination of Film Festivals. As such, it is now an important point on the film map of the Balkan and Central European regions.

For its 17th edition, running July 17-23, Palic will present 12 films in the main competition, ten in the Parallels and Encounters competition, 20 shorts, documentaries and animated films in the Young Spirits section (including Disco and Atomic War [+see also:
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The main competition comprises: Srdjan Koljevic’s The Woman with a Broken Nose [+see also:
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Interview with director and actress of…
interview: Nabil Ben Yadir
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interview: Agata Buzek - actress
interview: Borys Lankosz
film profile], Ferzan Oztepek’s Loose Cannons [+see also:
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interview: Benjamin Heisenberg
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interview: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
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Mathieu Amalric’s On Tour [+see also:
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The Parallels and Encounters competition – dedicated to films from Eastern Europe or whose subject matter is related to that part of the continent – consists of Zilnik’s The Old School of Capitalism, Jacek Borcuch’s All That I Love [+see also:
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interview: Asli Özge
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interview: Olivier Masset-Depasse
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