Ivan Ikic

Izola – The 17th Izola international film festival will start tonight, featuring 34 full-length and 97 short films. Until Sunday, projections will be held in Izola, and Ljubljana’s Kinodvor and the Slovenian Cinematheque. This year, art cinemas in Tolmin, Idrija and Sežana will also join the festival.

The feature film "Autoportretul unei fete cuminti" (Self-Portrait of Dutiful Daughter), directed by Ana Lungu, won the Best Fiction Film Award in the Crossing Europe Film Festival of Linz, Austria, informs a release of the producer remitted to AGERPRES on Tuesday.

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BELGRADE - The Belgrade Victor awards for best film at the 43rd International Film Festival Fest went to the Jordanian-UAE co-production Wolf in the main competitive programme and Serbia's No One's Child in the national selection.

Late Sunday's award ceremony officially closed the festival, which featured 90 premieres in various programmes from February 27.

PALIC - The Golden Tower award for the best film at the 21st European Film Festival Palic went to 'Leviathan' by Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, jury chair Pierre-Henri Deleau told reporters.

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/KARLOVY VARY - Young Serbian director Ivan Ikic won the special recognition at the 49th Film Festival in Karlovy Vary for his debut film 'Varvari' (Barbarians).

The recognition was delivered to Ikic within the East of the West competition programme.

BELGRADE - Serbia will be presented by the movie entitled Leto bez meseca (Moonless Summer) directed by Stefan Ivancic in the official selections of this year's Cannes Festival.

The movie was produced by the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and the Belgrade-based Non-Aligned Films and it will be displayed as part of Cinefondation program on May 21.