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The fourth day of SEE a Paris started with the screening of two movies in main competition "The City of Children" by Giorgos Gikapeppas and "This is not American movie" by Sasho Pavlovski. On the closing screening the audience saw 3 movies, short film "Alarm" by young director and student of University of audiovisual arts ESRA, Ana Aleksovska, short movie "Sarah, the Myth", by Sasha Stanisic and Turkish movie "Pomegranate" by Ümit Ünal.
The ceremony of pronouncing of awards continued in the Amphitheater of ESRA "Jean Renoir" where special guest was Mayer of City of Kumanovo Mr. Zoran Damjanovski, who was pronounced as the "SEE personality 2012". This evening in the honor of awarded authors and films their performances had Nino Velichkovski accompained by Kumanovski Tamburashi and Macedonian bass Aleksandar Stefanovski
President of the Jury Max Azoulay and the members of the jury Bülent Kücükerdogan, Zoran Zivkovic and Yves Allion decided to be awarded following movies and authors:
THE AWARDED FILMS AND AUTHORS:
- Best film production: “How I was stolen by the Germans”, Serbia
- Special festival award: Sasha Stanishic - “Sarah, the myth”, Macedonia
- Best Director: Ümit Ünal - "Pomegranate", Turkye and Branko Baletic - "Local Vampire", Montenegro (ex-ecco)
- Best Scenario: Ümit Ünal - "Pomegranate", Turkye
- Best Actress: Jelena Djokic - “How I was stolen by the Germans”, Serbia
- Best Actor: Hristo Shopov - “Love.Net”, Bulgaria
- Best Film Music: Nedim Zlatar, Leonardo Šarić - “Belvedere”, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Best Cinematographer: Darko Drinovac - “Belvedere”, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Best Animation Movie: Radostina Neykova, Vladislav Budinov - “Trip”, Bulgaria
- Best Short Fiction Movie: Orhan Kerkezi, Adem Rusinovici -  “Homage for Charlie Chaplin”, Kosovo and Veysel Cihan Hizar - "Well of Adem", Turkey (ex-ecco)

 
 
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The third day of the SEE a Paris started with the projection of the movie "Little Night Fairy Tale", in the presence of film director Nikolaj Akimov who introduced his movie to the audience. Than program continued with selection of the shorts by Balkan authors from Universities from all over the world and selection of short, animated and documentary movies. Later in the day audience had a chance to see for the first time in Paris the Bulgarian movie "Love.net", by Ilian Djevelekov and Montenegro movie 'Local Vampire" by Branko Baletic.

 
 
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On second day of SEE a Paris 2012 was presented the selection of short, animated and documentary movies in the Amphitheater of ESRA. Program continued in L'Entrepot where was organized the first screening of the short movie "Homage for Charlie Chaplin" by Orhan Kerkezi and Adem Rusinovici from Kosovo, with the presence of the actor Omer Kaleshi, one of the most known Balkan painters and Orhan Kerkezi, film director. Than it was shown the movies "15 July" from Romania and "Belvedere" from Bosnia and Herzegovina. The audience also saw the movie "Daddy" by Croatian director Dalibor Matanic.
Same as in the first edition of SEE a Paris today was organized literary meeting of French authors published in SEE countries and SEE authors published in France.

 
 
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Second edition of the South-East European Film Festival was successfully opened with the screening of the movie "How I was stolen by the Germans", by Milos Radivojevic. This movie is absolute winner of the Montenegro Film Festival 2011 in Herceg Novi and on the opening ceremony was present Svetozar Cvetkovic, one of the main actors and producer of the movie.
On the opening of the festival their address had Jordan Plevnes - President of the festival, Yves Boisset - Honorary President of the festival, Dragan Milinkovic - Director of the festival and Max Azoulay - President of the Jury.
During the opening ceremony was also announced the First Travel edition of the SEE a Paris festival, which right after event in Paris will happen in Veliko Trnovo, Bulgaria, town candidate for European Capital of Culture.
After the projection it was organized cocktail where was promoted special selections of "SEE a Paris" wines, made by Tikvesh Winery from Kavadarci, Macedonia. 

 
 
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Two weeks before start of the Second edition of the festival of South-East European Cinematography "SEE a Paris", President of the festival, Mr. Jordan Plevnes received letter from the General director of UNESCO Ms. Irina Bokova that this festival will be under patronage of UNESCO.
In the sent letter Mr. Bokova wrote: "This initiative, which encourages the artistic creations of film makers from 12 countries from South-East Europe, and thus promotes intercultural exchange and creativity, is consistent with UNESCO's goals and objectives in the field of culture. As such, I'm pleased to grant UNESCO's patronage to this year's edition of the festival, and to authorize the use of the Organization's logo, in line with the General Conditions.

 
 
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Interview with title "How I was stolen by Germans will open film festival of South-East Europe" with founder and President of SEE a Paris, Mr. Jordan Plevnes was published on 27 April in Vecernji List in Belgrade, Serbia. All interview can be found on following link.

 
 
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Detailed program for second edition of SEE a Paris can be found on festival web-site. Also the official festival flyer can be downloaded here.

 
 
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__ The second edition of the Film Festival of South-East European cinema, which is to be held from the 9th until the 12th of May 2012, has officially opened its call for entries and accepts submissions of short, medium, and long films for the Main Competition. All shooting formats are accepted. The Festival is opened to all types of films (feature, documentary, fiction and animation) whose directors and/or producers originate from the SEE countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey.

The duration of the short films must not exceed 15 minutes.

There's no time limit for feature, documentary and animation films.

The deadline for submission is March 15th.


There is no submission fee. It is mandatory that the applicants send a DVD screener of their film, along with a filled and signed 
SUBMISSION FORM 

For more information about the application please read the
 REGULATION FORM.

The selected applicants shall be informed about the selection of their film by the 10th of April 2012. The Festival line-up shall be announced by April 15th 2012 on the Festival website.



 
 
_The second edition of "SEE a Paris" Film Festival shall be held in the period between the 9th and the 12th  of May 2012. The screenings and off-program shall be realized in the prestigious Cultural Center L'Entrepot and in the amphitheater of ESRA in Paris, same as last year’s edition. Additional information about the call for entries will be published soon.
 
 
Detailed article on Spanish about the festival SEE a Paris was published on the Shangrila ediciones blog.