The committee, which consisted of representatives of the Provincial Government, the University of Novi Sad, the Tourism Organization of Vojvodina, “Jugoinspekt” and other organizations, decided that the Ravno Selo Film Festival deserves this honor.

Lazar Ristovski, the founder of the Ravno Selo Film Festival, thanked the Provincial Government for its support and spoke on behalf of all the winners of this prestigious mark, saying:

“We’ve been recognized for turning our crafts into art.”

Among others, the Kovačević, Deurić and Kiš wineries and the sports and recreational event “Tour de Fruška” were awarded the label.

With this recognition, Ravno Selo Film Festival confirms its uniqueness and authenticity in the field of artistic expression and proudly joins all other holders of the “Best of Vojvodina” sign.

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At the press conference on November 6, the director of the Multimedia Directorat of Telekom Srbija – Aleksandra Martinović, the producer of the series and one of the actors of the perpetrator, Lazar Ristovski, and the director of the series Petar Ristovski spoke. They, along with the cast, shared their excitement about the upcoming series ’Mind Tunnel’, which will premiere on November 11, on SuperstarTV.

Lazar Ristovski expressed his gratitude to the actors and participants and emphasized that the quality of the “Mind Tunnel” series reaches a level that would easily deserve a place on platforms like Netflix, HBO and similar.

Although the series is primarily based on real events, it cannot simply be classified as a crime series. This is because in this story there is no classic conflict between people on both sides of the law. Instead, it dives deep into the background and motivation of the perpetrators, who found themselves in a situation with no way out and made extreme decisions, were words of the director of the series, Petar Ristovski.

We remind you that the series “Mind Tunnel” is based on real events and follows a special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia that deals with negotiations in extreme situations, but it is much more than an ordinary police thriller. It talks about people who are faced with challenges not only at work, but also in their private lives.

At the center of the story is a team of negotiators who face unprecedented challenges, where everyone has the same goal – saving lives.

The series was created in cooperation with Telekom Srbija and Zillion film, and you can see the official trailer here .

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by STUART KEMP

The Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) is welcoming Russian cinephiles, filmmakers, and industry executives in person this week to what is one of Europe’s first (almost) fully physical events to take place during the pandemic.

The 43rd edition of the Moscow film festival is running from April 22 –April 29. The festival aims to provide a platform for international films into the Russian market and to bring Russian films to international attention. There are two main international competitions – for features and documentaries.

Working closely with the chairman of selection committee Andrey Plakhov’s name and also MIFF president Nikita Mikhalkov, Festival program director Kirill Razlogov, and the event team has worked hard to ensure the festival will go ahead entirely in cinemas. Cinemas in Moscow are now open with Covid measures in place.

“The main challenge has been with bringing people to Moscow, there was no challenge with getting films,” Razlogov says of pulling the festival together at a time of limited international travel. “Moscow’s promise of a cinema experience for the films boosted our allure.”

The festival is also hosting online screenings and events for those filmmakers unable to overcome travel bans or quarantine requirements.

Socially-distanced screenings are taking place at the festival’s main hub of the Oktyabr cinema center and at the festival’s other venues, including one of Moscow’s most famous cinemas, the recently refurbished Art Theater (Khudozhestvenny) on Arbat Square. Audiences are required to wear masks and gloves and screening rooms will be at 50% capacity.

This year’s festival opens with the world premiere of Timur Bekmambetov and Sergey Trofimov’s WWII thriller Devyataev, based on the true story of a Soviet Union fighter pilot Mikhail Devyataev captured by the Nazis in 1944. Trofimov is the regular cinematographer on Bekmambetov’s films.

The closing film is the European premiere of The Cafe Of My Memories from Finnish filmmaker Valto Baltzar. The France-Finland co-production details a love story between a Finnish worker and a French teacher who arrives in Helsinki for work. Razlogov expects Trofimov to attend and anticipates inviting French Embassy representatives and various French cultural institutions in Moscow.

There are 14 titles in the festival’s main competition section, of which nearly half are world premieres: Agustí Villaronga’s The Belly Of The Sea, Aleksey Fedorchenko’s Last Dear Bulgaria, Zrinko Ogresta’s A Blue Flower, Yelena Popovic’s Man Of God, Cuban director Miguel Coyula’s Blue Heart and Iranian director Noushin Meraji’s The Son.

Although the festival estimates just 40% of the usual number of international guests are able to attend this year’s edition, they include a good number of filmmakers from the main competition with Popovic, Villaronga, and Meraji among them.

“We received special permission from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to invite filmmakers if their countries are allowing them to travel to Moscow,” says Razlogov. Russia does not require any international visitor to quarantine unless they are UK citizens or arriving from the UK.

The competition jury is chaired by Filipino director Brilliante Mendoza with jury members Serbian-Russian actor/producer Milos Bikovic, Brazilian filmmaker Karim Ainouz, Russian composer Yuri Poteenko, and Russian film and TV director Nigina Sayfulaeva. All will be watching the films in person in Moscow.

“The Moscow film festival does what it has always done: Showing films that are difficult to get to see [for Russian audiences],” Razlogov says

He points to Radu Jude’s Berlinale Golden bear winner Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn, which is screening in the Missing Pictures strand. It is about a woman who suffers when a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. The subject matter is causing a few headaches for the Moscow selection team with Russian censors.

“They come down hard on films with explicit language content,” Razlogov explains. However, the festival is able to take advantage of a special dispensation from the censors for film festivals in Russia. “We are permitted to show the film without a censorship permit. But dirty words are forbidden by law in Russia. We will show it the best way we can.”

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After being politically convicted several times, his struggle is continued by his daughter, the first woman journalist in Serbia – Milica Miletic and Jasa Tomic, Miletic’s successor in the Serbian People’s Liberal Party, who will declare the accession of Vojvodina to the Kingdom of Serbia in 1918. Milica leads a double fight – both for accession and gender equality. Milica’s perspective brings a more layered and deeper understanding of the epoch and social relations of the 19^th century which represent the foundations of the modern Serbian state.

Get acquainted with the story that sheds light on an important and insufficiently celebrated period of Serbian history.

The director is Darko Bajić, and the roles are brilliantly played by Ljubomir Bandović, Žarko Laušević, Katarina Žutić, Anja Pavićević, Andrija Kuzmanović, Nikola Ristanovski, Milutin Mima Karadžić, Dragan Petrović Pele, Radovan Vujović, Ana Franić, Arpad Mesaroš, Atila Girić, Aleksandar Matic, Ivan Bekjarev, Jovan Ristovski, Pavle Mensur, Isidora Jankovic …

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With the help of Videomite, Zillion Film will make its extensive film catalog available globally on platforms such as Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV, and their YouTube channel.

– The reason why we decided to partner with Videomite is that it has almost 10 years of experience managing the content of Turkey’s largest production houses and TV channels. We are very pleased that we can capitalize on that knowledge and that the creations of Zillion Film
will reach new audiences. – Lazar Ristovski said in a statement.

– Serbia and the Western Balkans are very interesting for us, and we are very excited to expand our footprint in these countries. Collaboration with Zillion Film is a great start, and I look forward
to bringing their films to as many countries as possible. We are experiencing tremendous growth in the VOD market, and the appetite for good and new content is growing. We believe that the films of Zillion Film will be a great addition to the offering of global VOD players. –
said Dilek Telkes, Videomite’s Founder and CEO.

Zillion Film was founded in 1996 in Belgrade, Serbia, and has so far received more than 100 awards for its feature films and TV series. Its CEO, Lazar Ristovski, is one of the most well-known actors, writers, producers and directors in Serbia.

Videomite is, among other platforms, a direct partner with Netflix, Google/YouTube, Amazon, Apple, and has a track record of successfully increasing revenue and growing online communities for major producers and broadcasters such as Discovery, Besiktas Kultur Merkezi, Arzu Film, Most Production, Nulook. As one of the largest and most successful YouTube Enterprise Partners in the EMEA region, with more than 500 channels on their network, Videomite has been awarded numerous Gold and Silver Play Buttons.

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The film consists of three stories, and during its course, we found out about structure and interrelationships. The main characters are the general, who has a strong desire to commit suicide, the minister in the Government of the Republic of Croatia, who imprisoned himself without an official judgment, and a group of parents of different nationalities (Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian) who want to force the Governments of Croatia and Serbia to find their children lost in a war, by digging the graves of their dead presidents.

The film crew consists of actors such as Goran Bogdan, Niksa Butijer, Lazar Ristovski, Sebastian Cavazza, Branko Cvejić, Iva Mihalić, Krešimir Mikić and many others. The film was directed by Vinko Brešan, written by Mate Matišić, producer Ivan Maloča, co-producers Lazar Ristovski, Radoslawa Bardes, Slaven Knezovic, Jacek Kulczycki, Magdalena Zimecka, music by Maciej Zielinski, editing by Sandra Botica, director of photography Branko Linta.

The jury of this year’s festival “Mojkovac Film Autumn” awarded the acting ensemble of the film “What a country!”, directed by Vinko Brešan, a Plaque for exceptional collective acting. At the closing ceremony held at the “Nenad Rakočević” Cultural Center, on behalf of the ensemble, Lazar Ristovski addressed with a video message, saying: “Thank you all for this collective acting award, for this great film. I wish you all good health in this evil time. “

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At the very beginning of the TV Series ” Bulbulderac” (the name of this fraternal team) performs in the zone competition, but with great ambition to enter one day to the Second League then the First League, and even to the Champions League. Truly unhappy for never being a good football player, Ika teaches his sons with great zeal to become top football players. And in the end, our TV Series will fulfill his wish. Each episode is a story for itself and a central thread, which connects all the episodes, is the progress of Ika’s family club on the football map of Serbia and the region. “Bulbulderac” is located in Zvezdara forest, there is a small field, a house where everyone lives together, about twenty of them; ramshackle, dilapidated tavern, and barbecue. This tavern mostly supports the club, Ika is a better barbecue chef than he is a coach. The field is meticulously arranged, Ika takes exceptional care of the grass, so the playground looks more like a tennis court than a football field. This isolated place in the forest is also the main place of all the stories in the TV Series. Most of them take place on the field, in the tavern, in the locker room, in the small house. Each episode has its main characters (Ika, his 11 sons, mother Ciga, a 100-year-old Granpa Drakče) but many interesting guest characters will also appear in each episode. The task of this TV Series is to be easy, funny, and quick, to tell in a witty manner a romantic story about hope, desire, and ideals of ordinary, simple people. Dream team is a modern TV Series. No matter how much they hate each other and often quarrel, strong ties of love bind members of Ika’s family. The pillar of discord – but also the pillar of love and calmness – is the main character Ika Srdić.

The characters, of this witty, light and unusual story, play: Lazar Ristovski, Tatjana Šojić, Momo Picuric, Milutin Mima Karadžić, Danica Ristovski, Voja Brajović, Teodora Ristovski, Radovan Vujović, Jelisaveta Orašanin, Milica Tomašević, Milan Kolak, Aleksandar Filimonović, Veljko Eraković, Jovan Ristovski, Aca Marković, Goran Ivanović, Vukašin Jovanović, Danijel Stanković, Danilo Mihajlović, Petar Arsić, Vanja Ejdus, Jovica Ristovski, Bojana Stojković, Nenad Okanović, Slaviša Ćurović, Veljko Stevanović, Radoje Čupić, Helena Bucalo, Aleksandar Đurica, Mira Đurđević, Miloš Trojpec, Gorica Regodić, Marko Gvero, Milena Đorđević, Nenad Ćirković, Bojan Dimitrijević, Jovo Maksić, Ivan Isailović, Bora Nenić, Mihailo Laptošević, Draga Živanović, Nikola Milošević, Stefan Jevtović, Mladen Sovilj, Luka Piljagić, Stefan Orovec, Dobrila Ćirković, Svetozar Cvetkovic, Duško Radović, Olivera Viktorović, Dragana Sudžuk, Radovan Miljanić, Luka Pavlović, Nebojša Vranić, Petar Mihailović, Milan Prljeta, Djordje Kreća

The numerous team of authors, among others, included:
Reditelj: Dejan Zečević
Scenario: Miloš Radović
Producent: Lazar Ristovski
Direktor fotografije: Maja Radošević
Scenograf: Nenad Paranosić
Kostimograf: Zora Mojsilović
Kompozitor: Janja Lončar
Masker: Katarina Milojević

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The movie The Name of the People, directed by Darko Bajić, is a story about the fight for the rights and independence of Serbs in Austro-Hungarian Vojvodina. The authors of the film are: Screenwriter: Milovan Vitezović, Producent: Lazar Ristovski, Camera: Zoran Jovanović S.A.S., Set design: Dejan Anđelković, Costume: Boris Čakširan, Composer: Dejan Pejović, Make Up: Aleksandar Rasinac.

Cast: Ljubomir Bandović, Žarko Laušević, Katarina Žutić, Anja Pavićević , Andrija Kuzmanović, Nikola Ristanovski, Milutin Mima Karadžić, Dragan Petrović Pele, Radovan Vujović, Ana Franić ,Arpad Mesaroš, Atila Girić, Aleksandar Matić, Ivan Bekjarev, Jovan Ristovski, Pavle Mensur, Isidora Janković and others.

– Zillion film –

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On the occasion of the premiere, film director Paolo Zucca and lead actor Jacopo Cullin arrived in Belgrade. At a press conference that preceded the premiere, they addressed the press, along with Paola Cordone, director of the Italian Cultural Center and host and one of the main actors, Lazar Ristovski.

“I would first like to thank the Italian Cultural Center for supporting us to bring Paolo and Jacopo as guests at the film’s premiere. Distributing films that carry the artistic line is always difficult and we, as Zillion, have ventured to buy this film for distribution. I hope the audience will love and watch this movie, ” Ristovski said at a press conference and expressed special thanks to Marko Ckonjevic and FAME Solutions as distributor for Serbia.

Director Paolo Zuka has also written a screenplay for his film, and the movie is based in his native Sardinia and follows a local fisherman, played by Lazar Ristovski, who has promised a woman he loves to give her the moon. And, the Sardinians are known to always keep their promise.

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Special guest Lazar Ristovski was awarded the “Kapija Zvornika” for his contribution to the development of festival and film art in Republika Srpska. The award was presented by Zvornik Mayor Zoran Stevanovic while the symbol of the Festival “Filmska klapa” was presented to Dragan Marinkovic, the director of “Leeches”.

This artistic manifestation as a kind of “cultural bridge” connects the cities of East Sarajevo and Zvornik and best realizes the strategy of decentralization of culture of the Ministry of Education and Culture in the Government of Republika Srpska and this concept implies the uniform development of artistic creativity, but also the development of other cultural activities evenly throughout the area of Srpska, both in its urban and rural parts.

Opening the festival, Ristovski emphasized that he is very important because he shows selected films, which makes him significant, quality and good.
“I’ve been to a lot of festivals – small, big, significant, but I can say that every festival is significant, no matter how small it is by the number of films shown or by the number of audiences present,” Ristovski said.

Marinkovic said that the movie “Leeches” was interesting for many reasons, and that the cast consisting of Mirjana Jankovic, Iva Mihalic, Nikola Djuricko and Lazar Ristovski did something extraordinary and superb. According to him, 13 years of the festival means something in the European context.

This year’s festival “Prvi kadar” is held under the motto “Don’t see evil!”, which is inspired by the folk saying, but also by the thematic frames of filmmaking.

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