B2B - Jury of the “Europe out of Europe” Competition, Dubravka Lakić, film critic of the daily Politika, Pawel Pawlikowski, film director from United Kingdom, and Meinolf Zurhorst, ZDF and Arte Commissioning director, decided to award the Film “To get to Heaven first you need to die” by Djamshed Usmonov, for its original characters and seductive performances, and a story which takes us on a journey that's never predictable, but always convincing.

We would like to mention Armin Omerovic, for his beautifully understated and touching performance in two films screened at the Festival: “Armin”, by Ognjen Svilicic and “the Melon route” by Branko Schmidt.

YU FIPRESCI Award for Best Film of FEST 07

Decision of the YU FIPRESCI Jury

The Jury of film critics, members of the national section Yu-Fipresci – Milan Vlajcic (Chairman), Zoran Djordjevic and Vladimir Dzudovic, has reviewed the films in all available programs of FEST 07 and has made the following decisions:

The Yu-Fipresci Awards shall be handed over to the German film “The Lives of Others” (Das Leben den Anderen) of Florian Hankel fon Donersmark, which in a extraordinarily convincing and moving manner sheds light to the Orwellian effects of controlling people in totalitarian times, which are, unfortunately, still with us.

The Jury has the pleasure to emphasize the formidable presence of a range of new German authors on FEST 07 reminding that the film “The Free Will” (Der Freie Wille) of Mathias Glasner was also one of the top contenders.

In Belgrade, March 4, 2007.

MEMBERS OF THE JURY
Milan Vlajcic (Chairman) s.r
Zoran Djordjevic s.r
Vladimir Dzudovic s.r

ASSOCIATION OF FILM JOURNALISTS AND CRITICS OF BELGRADE

The Jury of the Association of film journalists and critics of Belgrade has decided to award the “Nebojsa Djukelic” Award 2007 to the program German Journey . Considering all other programs and films shown on FEST, the Jury concluded that the program of German films is of the most consistent quality. An original and wide choice of themes, good scenario and direction and quality casting confirmed by many festival awards, as well as excellent production, is bringing German film back on the top of European cinematography.

The Jury:
Ivana Matijevic (Danas)
Lazar Simovic (Film Center of Serbia)
Petar Joncic (Studio B)

FEST OPENED BY BOB RAPHAELSON AND “THE TRAP”

- The 35 th Belgrade International Film Festival – FEST, which will show around 80 films by March 4, including awarded ones from major world festivals, Academy Awards winners and films from the competition program, was opened by US director Bob Raphaelson on the occasion of the premiere of the domestic film “The Trap”. The crew of the Trap has, prior to the premiere, walked the red carpet of the Sava Center... [read more]

"EUROPE OUT OF EUROPE" - competition: On the forthcoming 35 th FEST the program “Europe out of Europe” shall have a competition character and involve eight small cinematographies of non-European or non-EU European countries, the former being “under” its cultural legacy... [read more]