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149 articles available in total starting from 28/04/2011. Last article published on 15/07/2025.

Review: Excursion

Review: Excursion

Una Gunjak’s powerful debut film shows adolescence for what it really is: an endless search for meaning and for that spark which turns banal, everyday life into a boundless adventure  

07/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del Presente

Review: Only When I Laugh

Review: Only When I Laugh

Vanja Juranić portrays a society that normalises the abuse of a woman to such an extent that committing murder might be seen as the only way out for her  

25/07/2023 | Pula 2023

Klemen Dvornik shooting Block 5

Klemen Dvornik shooting Block 5

The helmer’s fourth feature will be a youth drama in which a girl joins forces with her former bullies to halt a construction project led by her father  

12/07/2023 | Production | Funding | Slovenia/Czech Republic/Serbia/Croatia

Vladimir Perišić  • Director of Lost Country

Interview: Vladimir Perišić • Director of Lost Country

“I am trying to dissect and diagnose the violence in Serbian society”

CANNES 2023: The Serbian director returns to the Croisette with a film that has a strong personal dimension for him and an uncanny echo in the present reality of his home country  

26/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Review: Lost Country

Review: Lost Country

CANNES 2023: Vladimir Perišić returns with his first film in thirteen years, set during the 1996 elections in Belgrade in what was then Yugoslavia  

23/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Marko Šantić • Director of Wake Me

Interview: Marko Šantić • Director of Wake Me

"My lead character’s fate is a sort of metaphor for the revisionism of history in the Balkans, but also in Europe"

The Slovenian director talks about his fourth feature, a film about redemption and the relations between Slovenians and immigrants from other parts of former Yugoslavia.  

30/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Critics' Picks

Review: Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Review: Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

The second half of Mila Turajlić’s diptych about the cameraman who became Yugoslav president Tito's personal cinematographer suffers from being too vague and wide-ranging  

24/11/2022 | IDFA 2022

Mila Turajlic • Director of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Interview: Mila Turajlic • Director of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

"It was very important for me to show how the story is put together in the film, that the story didn’t exist prior to it"

The Serbian director discusses the second part of her dyptich of documentaries, which re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement during the era of decolonization  

24/11/2022 | IDFA 2022

Review: Wake Me

Review: Wake Me

In his efficient fourth feature film, Marko Šantić examines a nationalist thug’s chances at redemption after he suffers memory loss  

23/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Critics’ Picks

Young authors and the female condition form the focus of the 5th Balkan Film Festival

Young authors and the female condition form the focus of the 5th Balkan Film Festival

The event promoting meet-ups and collaboration between the Balkan and Italian film industries will unspool 29 November – 4 December at Rome’s Casa del Cinema  

16/11/2022 | Festivals | Awards | Italy

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