French Film Festival to Open in Belgrade Botanical Garden

The 8th French Film Festival is set to open on June 23 in Belgrade's Botanical Garden, marking a significant cultural event for Serbia. Organizers from the French Embassy in Belgrade announced that this year's festival will extend from June 23 to July 5, with screenings planned across multiple cities including Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Niš, Užice, and Gornji Milanovac.

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This cultural event is of great significance and part of Serbia's cultural landscape.

The opening night will feature "Happy End," the film that opened the Cannes Film Festival, directed by Pierre Salvadori. The French Ambassador to Serbia, Florence Ferrari, emphasized the festival's importance as part of Serbia's cultural landscape and its role in promoting French cinema and cultural influence.

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This festival represents the best of France and has become more than just a series of film screenings over the years.

Festival director Igor Stanković highlighted exclusive screenings, including "Comédie-Française," a film about France's only professional theater, which has not yet been released in French cinemas. Other anticipated films include the hit "Igo," "American Dream," and a new film by Guillaume Nicloux, known to Belgrade audiences for "My Amour" and "Thalassa."

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It will be a unique encounter for the Serbian audience with French films, and in multiple locations, which shows the strength of the event, with the aim of making culture as accessible as possible.

Actor Andrija Kuzmanović, named the festival's patron, expressed hope for increased collaboration between Serbian and French artists in film productions. The festival aims to make French culture more accessible by holding events in various open-air locations, including Kosančićev venac and Kula Gardoš after the initial opening.

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I hope that more artists from Serbia will play in French films.