The 28th edition of the European Film Festival Palić (17-23 July) will be held physically in several locations in the Serbian towns of Palić and Subotica, including in the Abazija cinema, considered to be the oldest theatre in the former Yugoslavia built in 1925 for this particular purpose. As many as 130 European films will be presented in the pre-festival programme and the main events, and many of them will be Serbian premieres.

Among the 12 titles in the Official Selection are the British-American film The Mauritanian [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Roger Michell, as well as Anne Zohra Berrached’s Copilot [+lire aussi :
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interview : Anne Zohra Berrached
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interview : Dénes Nagy
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interview : Ferit Karahan
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interview : Bruno Dumont
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interview : Joachim Trier
fiche film], which completes his Oslo Trilogy. Representative for the region are A Blue Flower [+lire aussi :
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interview : Zrinko Ogresta
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interview : Igor Ivanov
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interview : Piotr Domalewski
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The rich and diverse competition programme Parallels and Encounters for Eastern European films showcases two films made by Russian directors: the documentary A Boy by Vitaly Akimov and the tango drama Parquet [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by veteran Aleksandr Mindadze. Another two are conceived by Latvians – Laila Pakalnina’s socially critical fairy tale In the Mirror [+lire aussi :
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interview : Laila Pakalniņa
fiche film] and Reinis Kalviņš’s criminal drama The Shift, while Hungary presents three titles: Balint Biro’s Dust, Krasznahorkai Balázs’s Ravine and K. Kovács Ákos’ Branka. The Lithuanian documentary A Devil Jumping Around directed by Zephir Moreels and Alban Mercier digs into the deeply rooted pagan tradition in Lithuania that survived Catholicism, while Nun of Your Business by Croatian Ivana Marinić Kragić, which won the Audience award at ZagrebDox, portrays two nuns in love who abandon the convent. The Serbian films in the selection are the latest Oscar entry King Peter the First [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Petar Ristovski and the romantic drama The Spring Poem by Natalija Avramović; Montenegro is represented by the short fiction Rainbow by Aleksandar Vujović which participated in numerous festivals worldwide. The remaining films in competition are well travelled as well: Pavel G. Vesnakov’s German Lessons [+lire aussi :
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interview : Pavel G. Vesnakov
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interview : Ru Hasanov
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interview : Alexandre Koberidze
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interview : Igor Drljača
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The annual Alexander Lifka Awards, named after the acclaimed Yugoslavian cinematographer and travelling movie theatre owner, which are given for outstanding contribution to European cinema, will go to Serbian actor Aleksandar Berček (Promise Me This [+lire aussi :
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interview : Matevž Luzar (Good To Go)
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