The 31st edition of European Film Festival Palić will unspool from 20-26 July at various venues around the resort town of Palić and the nearby city of Subotica, in the north of Serbia. The gathering will screen 150 films, 21 in the pre-festival programmes and 129 during the festival itself, most of them as national premieres. What’s more, over 100 film professionals from the country and from abroad will attend the event.

Yorgos Lanthimos’s recent Cannes Best Actor Award winner (for Jesse Plemons) Kinds of Kindness [+lire aussi :
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interview : Emilija Gašić
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interview : Bruno Anković
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interview : Besir Zeciri
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interview : Magnus von Horn
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interview : Phedon Papamichael
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fiche film] by Gustav Möller, When the Light Breaks [+lire aussi :
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interview : Elín Hall
interview : Rúnar Rúnarsson
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interview : Gust Van den Berghe
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interview : Szabolcs Hajdu
fiche film] by Szabolcs Hajdu, A Good Jewish Boy [+lire aussi :
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interview : Manuel Martín Cuenca
fiche film] by Manuel Martín Cuenca. Quentin Dupieux’s Cannes opener The Second Act [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] will be screened out of competition as the closing film of the festival. The programme was selected by Nikolaj Nikitin and will be judged by a jury of three: German producer Bettina Brokemper, Liana Ruokyte Jonsson (the cultural attaché of the Republic of Lithuania in the Kingdom of Sweden) and Serbian filmmaker Bojan Vuletić.

Parallels and Encounters is another competitive section of Palić, aimed at films from the eastern half of the European continent. Among the ten titles, there will be screenings of Beata Parkanová’s Tiny Lights [+lire aussi :
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interview : Beata Parkanová
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interview : George Sikharulidze
fiche film], both fresh from this year’s edition of Karlovy Vary, while the other films in the selection have been at festivals for a while longer. Julia Sinkevych served as the selector of the programme, which will be judged by a jury consisting of Serbian filmmaker Natalija Avramović, her Cypriot colleague Constantinos Nikiforou and Spanish producer David Castellanos.

The festival has also announced this year’s winners of the honorary Aleksandar Lifka Awards for Outstanding Contribution to European Cinema. The victors include actress Anica Dobra in the domestic, filmmaker Ademir Kenović in the regional and DoP Phedon Papamichael in the international categories. The laureates will be honoured with an homage programme that will screen one film deemed to be most representative of their work.