Serbian Ministry of Culture

BELGRADE - The two-day international conference entitled "Protection of safety and integrity of journalists in the OSCE region" will open in the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade on Thursday.

BELGRADE- Belgrade Dance Festival (BDF) is listed on the UNESCO website as an event promoting culture in Serbia and cultural diversity in the world, BDF Director Aja Jung said Tuesday.

Our festival, which will have its 12 edition take place from March 23 to April 9, under the slogan 'Catch the Light', has been listed on the official website of UNESCO, said Jung.

BELGRADE - "Ex Ponto", an exhibition that follows the wartime fates of Young Bosnia members and Belgraders in 1914, opened at Belgrade's Kalemegdan Fortress on Monday as part of events commemorating the outbreak of World War I.

BELGRADE - The newly-opened Hungarian cultural centre in Belgrade, Collegium Hungaricum, has hosted a discussion titled A new Beginning, on culture as a possibility for reconciliation and cooperation between Hungarians and Serbs.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Culture and Information Ivan Tasovac will visit Florence at the invitation of Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova to take part in the Third UNESCO World Forum on Culture and Cultural Industries in Florence on October 2-4, the Serbian Ministry of Culture has said in a release.

BELGRADE - The Undertaker, a film by director and screenwriter Dragan Nikolic, has been nominated as the best European television documentary after featuring at thirty festivals to great acclaim, the producers announced.

PANCEVO - The first Pancevo Film Festival, an international short and feature film competition event, has has closed after awarding the winners of two competition categories.

NIS - The 49th Nis Film Festival opened on Saturday evening with the symbolic handing over the keys to the city to the jury president, actress Dragana Varagic.

Actor Misa Janketic was presented with the lifetime achievement award named after the great Serbian actor Pavle Vujisic.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Culture and Information Ivan Tasovac and Minister of Education and Culture of Republika Srpska (RS) Goran Mutabdzija have signed in Banja Luka a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between the two ministries that provides for exchange of programs, projects and experts between Serbian and RS national cultural institutions.

NOVI SAD - The participants of the international expert conference “Regional Media in Southeastern Europe”, held Friday in Novi Sad, highlighted the importance of strengthening ties between the regional media, both for the purpose of information exchange and for the presentation and dissemination of the EU policies.