14/06/2012 - The fifth Cinema City International Film Festival in Novi Sad (June 16 – 23) will host the first meeting of the European Film Academy Board in Serbia

The fifth Cinema City International Film Festival in Novi Sad (June 16 – 23), which has been gaining an increasing international recognition since its inception in 2008, will host a retrospective of German director Andreas Dresen, in co-operation with FEDEORA, the Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean. The Novi Sad event will screen five of Dresen’s films, including Stopped On Track [+see also:
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Since Serbia has not had an official national awards event since 2007, Cinema City serves as one of the two platforms with a national competition, the other being the Sopot Film Festival, which takes place in July. This year it will consist of nine films, including international festival hits Clip [+see also:
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interview: Maja Milos
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The international competition called Exit Point will consist of 12 films from around the world, and Europe will be represented by Julie Delpy’s Skylab [+see also:
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interview: Gianni di Gregorio
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Other programmes of Cinema City are the competition of low budget films called Up to 10,000 Bucks; a non-competitive selection of popular world cinema titled 360°; Educons Hungry Days, an international competitition of first or second films; and a Focus on a particular national cinema - this year it’s Hungary.