04/06/2018 - Film Center Serbia's minority co-production funding has gone to eight feature-length fiction films and two documentaries

Director Cristi Puiu, whose Manor House has received backing

Film Center Serbia has announced the results of its funding competitions in six categories, including minority co-productions of feature-length fiction and documentary films, as well as short fiction and animated films.

Among the winners are some of Europe's most highly acclaimed auteurs. Cristi Puiu's Manor House, co-produced by Romania's Mandragora and Serbia's Sense Production, received €101,634; Sharunas Bartas' In the Dusk [+see also:
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The list of awarded projects also includes three feature debuts by regional filmmakers known for their short films: Awakenings by Jure Pavlović, staged by Croatia’s Sekvenca and Serbia’s Wake Up Films (€42,377); You Have the Night [+see also:
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Two feature-length documentaries also received funding: Avenge by Slovenia's Marija Zidar, staged by Slovenia’s Vertigo and Serbia’s Baš Čelik (€33,838); and Nun of Your Business by Croatia's Ivana Marinić Kragić, produced by Croatia’s Marinis Media and Serbia’s Platforma (€16,939). 

The remaining projects that received backing are the fiction short The Shift by Luka Popadić, staged by Switzerland’s Radar Film and Serbia’s Prababa Produkcija (€16,939); the animated short Murder in the Cathedral by Tvrtko Rаšpulić and Mаtija Pisаčić, produced by Croatia’s Kinematograf and Serbia’s Pаpа Films (€33,857); another animated short, Man Wanted by Irida Zonga, staged by Greece’s Magikon and Serbia’s Mali Budo (€12,696); and the short animated doc Microcassette by Igor Bezinović and Ivana Pipal, produced by Croatia’s Bonobostudio and Serbia’s Theory at Work (€8,471).