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PANCEVO - The first Pancevo Film Festival, an international short and feature film competition event, will be held in Pancevo near Belgrade on September 3-7.

BELGRADE - The first Pancevo Film Festival, an international short and feature film competition event, will be held in Pancevo near Belgrade on September 3-7, the organizers have said.

Created as an act of resistance to the siege of the city during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, the Sarajevo Film Festival opened on Aug. 15 to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

The eighth Vukovar Film Festival, also known as the Danube Region Film Festival, opens on 25 August, bringing movies and events over six days to the eastern border town best known for its divisions and tragic history.

The Bosnian capital is getting ready to roll out the red carpet for the 20th Sarajevo Film Festival, which starts on August 15 and lasts nine days.

Around 250 films from 60 countries will be screened for thousands of visitors who will be coming from all over the region and beyond.

TREBINJE - Famous Serbian actress Milena Dravic is the first winner of the Golden Plane Tree award delivered at the Festival of Mediterranean and European Film in Trebinje.

The recognition is delivered for exceptional contribution to the European and Mediterranean film industry and it was handed to Dravic by Director of the Trebinje Cultural Centre Dejan Bodiroga.

BELGRADE – The 21st edition of the European Film Festival Palic will open Saturday evening by the screening of White God by Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo, winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes this year.

BELGRADE - Famous Serbian actor Bora Todorovic died at the Clinical Centre of Serbia in Belgrade on Monday, the hospital told Tanjug.

The Belgrade media reported earlier that Todorovic had undergone an appendectomy, but his condition deteriorated afterwards and he slipped into a coma.

A Turkish professor has filed a complaint against Nuri Bilge Ceylan for ‘torturing a horse’ during the shooting of his movie, ‘Winter Sleep,’ which recently won the Palme d’Or in Cannes

“This is not a pipe dream, but proof that something will really happen,” Vucic said on Friday as he unveiled the plan and a scale model of the ambitious waterfront project.

The presentation was held at the Beogradska Zadruga building, which was the first to be renovated as part of the scheme which is also known as ‘Belgrade on Water’.