Cinema of Yugoslavia

The first guests arrived to Mokra Gora yesterday - celebrated Italian director Paolo Virzi, French director of photography Michel Amathieu, Chinese-Canadian film director Johnny Ma, a French-Russian-Kazakhstani chess grandmaster Vladislav Tkachiev and director Karim Aïnouz.

The 46th edition of FEST, under the slogan Come Closer, will take place from February 23 to March 4., featuring 116 premiers and ten cinematic classics.

BELGRADE - Aleksandar Sasa Petrovic's I Even Met Happy Gypsies will be screened in the prestigious Cannes Classics programme of the upcoming Cannes Film Festival to honour the 50th anniversary of the cult film.

The Yugoslav Film Archive has made a special new copy of the film for the occasion.

Photo: Yugoslav Film Archive

BELGRADE - Legendary Serbian and Yugoslav actor Velimir Bata Zivojinovic died in a Belgrade hospital Sunday evening aged 83, Belgrade media reported on Monday.

Zivojinovic, who was the region's most prolific actor, gained international fame thanks to the leading role in the 1972 Yugoslav partisan film Walter Defends Sarajevo, which became massively popular in China.

BELGRADE - Serbian film studio Avala Film was sold for RSD 980 million to Film Way after a public bidding on Wednesday, Belgrade media reported.

The film artists, who have waged a campaign against the sale of the largest film production company in the former Yugoslavia, rallied to protest in front of the Privatization Agency.

BELGRADE - A roundtable debate entitled 'Sasa Petrovic's European heritage' was held in the Yugoslav Cinematheque on Wednesday to mark the 20th anniversary of death of famous Serbian director Aleksandar Sasa Petrovic.