A few hours before the announcement of the winners, the Cannes Film Festival ran out of electricity. The organizers announced that this will not affect the ceremony
The southeastern part of France, including the city of Cannes, remains today without electricity, which disrupted international film festival, which ends tonight with the awarding of the Palme d'Or.
However, the organizers of the Film Festival announced that today's program has undergone changes due to a power outage. Some film screenings have been cancelled, but tonight's closing ceremony will take place as planned and "under normal conditions", as the hall has its own generators.
So, tonight will be known who is the winner of this year's Cannes Film Festival. Serbia did not compete, but was present.
Since major world productions view the area of the former Yugoslavia as a single market, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are jointly represented in the Southeast Europe Pavilion.
Serbia's offer
At this stand, the Film Center of Serbia offered the digital catalog "Films and film projects - Cannes 2025", which presented feature films premiering in 2024 and new projects in the production and post-production phase, the premiere of which is planned by the end of 2025 or the beginning of the next year, as well as the brochure "Serbian Film Industry in 2024", which provides statistics on film production, viewership, number of cinemas and other valid information related to the Serbian film industry.
Photo: APMargaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza on the red carpet
Ivan Karl, acting director of the Film Center of Serbia, especially emphasizes the presentation in electronic form on USB, "electronic identity card", as Ivan Karl, director of the Film Center of Serbia, described it to the media. "There is everything that was filmed, everything that was shown, the results at the box office...", he explained to Euronews.
According to Karl, the common pavilion is a good solution also because "those cinematographs cooperate with each other, exchange, are market-linked, and at the same time are well-quoted in these other countries. And then it is practical and useful that we are all at the same pavilion, because someone who comes to these spaces wants to be up to date with everything that is being filmed, and it is also useful to exchange information and to cooperate in this way."
Balkan Film Fund
None of the listed countries has a representative in the selection of the Cannes Film Festival, with the fact that in "The Disappearance of Josef Mengele" directed by Kiril Serebrenjikov, "Red Production" from Belgrade participates as one of the producers, but it is not treated as a Serbian co-production because the film did not win funds in the competition for minority co-productions of the Film Center, which is a prerequisite for it to be labeled as a co-production with Serbia.
Photo: APThe crew of the film "Mastermind"
Ivan Karl thinks that we should think "in the direction of a kind of special, Balkan film fund, where, say, eight countries would participate equally every year, pay some funds, but once every eight years, one of the participating countries always gets the funds. In this way, we also help our cinematography and encourage their placement in the world."
Representatives of the Film Center of Serbia and other related institutions in the region spoke this year in Cannes with the director of Netflix for this part of Europe, who, as Karl explains, has already been in Belgrade and is familiar with what is being filmed and to what extent.
"If Netflix were to film some of its content in Serbia, it would be excellent promotion and a win-win for everyone," said Karl, adding that "Serbia makes good money from filming foreign films on its territory, but it can do even more."
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