INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR AND BY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES -

Janko Baljak - jury member of the thirteenth Belgrade International Film Festival for and by people with disabilities

June 09 2022

Janko Baljak, (Belgrade, November 21, 1965) is a Serbian film and television director. He graduated from Film and Television Directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.

His first short feature film Due to Reasonable Doubt was shown in 1986 in the official selection of the Festival of Yugoslav Documentary and Short Film Feature Film.

During the studies he directed a part of the feature omnibus film What Are You Doing Tonight ( Perfect Pitch) . This film officially closed the Yugoslav Film Festival in Pula in 1988. The Story of Absolute Hearing was represented by the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at the World Festival of Film Schools in Munich in 1988 and in the selection for the Eighteenth Oscars for the best student film of the non-Anglaic speaking field. The same film enabled him to take part in the First European Summer Film School in Belgrade in 1989. The selection was made in London, and the lecturer of twelve of the best students was director Istvan Sabo. His documentary Derby represented the work of this school at the Montreal Film Festival in 1990. Graduation, TV drama The long life of the couple, Kos, came across an excellent reception for audience and criticism. It was bought by French television.

He is the author of a dozen shows of the cultural and artistic program TV Belgrade.

He is one of the founders of the film and TV production of the independent Belgrade radio B92, in which he produced a series of documentary films that were successfully presented in our country and in the world and won multiple awards.

He is a full-time professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade https://www.fdu.edu.rs/   , teaching a documentary film.

From 2009-2014 he was artistic director of the Belgrade Festival of Documentary and Short Film http://martovski.rs/en/  , one of the oldest film festivals in Europe.

Filmography

Bosifest 2023 - Video

October 31 2023

Bosifest 2023 - Interviews - Video

October 31 2023

Watch videos from this year's festival - Interviews.

The 14th BOSIFEST - Belgrade International Film Festival Persons with Disabilities ended with the awarding of awards to the best films in the Yugoslav Cinematheque

October 18 2023

The 14th BOSIFEST - Belgrade International Film Festival Persons with Disabilities ended with the awarding of awards to the best films in the Yugoslav Cinematheque.

The film "Atomy", directed by Logi Hilmarsson, won the grand prize at the 14th Bosifest.

The 14th Belgrade International Film Festival of Persons with Disabilities BOSIFEST 2023 was officially opened at the Yugoslav film Archive

October 16 2023

The 14th BOSIFEST – Film Festival of Persons with Disabilities, which takes place from October 16 to 18 at the Yugoslav Cinematheque, was officially opened today. The festival is held under the slogan "Under the surface", and the 14th BOSIFEST was officially opened by Tatjana Prijić, deputy commissioner for the protection of equality.  At the opening, Djurdjija Jelenković's performance "Frequency of Caravaggio's Blood"

Accompanying program of the festival, October 16, 2023.

August 02 2023

October 16, 2023. Yugoslav Cinematheque, Uzun Mirkova 1

PERFORMANCE  - Djurdjija Jelenkovic

MIROLJUB STOJANOVIĆ - selector of the fourteenth Belgrade International Film Festival for and by people with disabilities

June 26 2023

Born on March 2, 1958. He is engaged in film criticism, essays and research. He published his works in more than 40 magazines, as well as daily newspapers and periodicals.

He is represented in about twenty film books by his original works.

Marko Cvejić - jury member of the thirteenth Belgrade International Film Festival for and by people with disabilities

June 26 2023

Marko Cvejić (1978) Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia. Graduated in film and theater directing at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.

Founder of the independent production company Mandragora Film, within which he shot most of his films. He has extensive experience in all areas of filmmaking.

Tea Lukač - jury member of the thirteenth Belgrade International Film Festival for and by people with disabilities

June 26 2023

Working in diverse fields from film to video art, Tea Lukač has directed short fiction films,  documentaries, music videos and showcased at art exhibitions.

Tea’s work thus far has traveled to film festivals worldwide, including Jihlava, Ulju and Dok.fest Munchen.