NORDIC PANORAMA 2012th

Traditional film event for the eighth year repeatedly organized Balkankult Foundation and the Cultural Center of Belgrade, in cooperation with the embassies, film institutes, producers and distributors in the Nordic countries and the pharmaceutical company Actavis, which supported the Festival from it's beginning.
Nordic Panorama is a festival that presents annual production of the best short films, documentaries, animated and experimental films and feature documentaries from the Nordic region. With it’s proramme and content it’s related to Nordisk Panorama - Film festival of five cities, which is held every year in September in the second Nordic country, and the hosts are: Rejkjavik (Island) Bergen (Norveška) Orhus (Danska) Oulu (Finska) i Malme (Sweden ). This year, Nordic Panorama '12 will allow viewers to learn about the latest and the most recent ideas of young film artists, as well as new creations, but experienced and recognized artists presented at the 22nd Nordisk Panorama, which was held in Aarhus (Denmark) from 23rd till 28th of September 2011. Many of these films have already won awards at European festivals.
Constant production of dynamic and renowned documentary films from the Nordic countries, which is constantly growing, successfully combines the global, political and social issues with an intimate and personal aspect, in which from the beginning of the creative process to post-production more emphasis are made on professionalism. Karen Rais-Nordentoft, director of the Festival in Aarhus (Denmark).
This year's festival, in addition to aroun 30(27) short, documentary and animated films, the first time will be shown in two separate programs: Sami short films and Nordic films for children.

Short films about the Sami people
The selection of films about the Sami people consists of 11 short films (for a total of 92 minutes), which are inspired by culture and identity Sami people. Region of Lapland covers a large geographical area in northern Europe over the borders of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Sami people have a common language and foster the traditional way of life, and they are independent in terms of culture in relation to the majority peoples of these countries. Sami minority, accounting for approximately 75,000 people, of whom 40 000 live in Norway. In a society whith the government and market economy where the property rights are protected, there are fewer places for the traditional lifestyles of the Sami people based on the sense of community belonging and preservation of the nature.
Program of Nordic films for children brings 4 films lasting 59 minutes.

This year's festival is characterized by some news - two exhibitions are part of his program:
The Gallery Artget of Cultural Centre of Belgrade (Republic Square 5 / I) from 21st of February to 4th of March, an exhibition of renowned Icelandic photographer Ragnar Akselsona Raks, named Island, between fire and ice. This exhibition presents author’s photographic essay of the native Iceland, where it turns dramatically different landscapes and scenes of life bound with ice and they make eruption of the nature. However, Rax is present in the film festival program as the main character in the movie The Last Days of the Arctic, which the documentary records his work while shooting people, mostly farmers, fishermen and hunters, faced with harsh living conditions in remote regions of Greenland.

Also in the Nordic Panorama 2012, the Center for Cultural Decontamination, dated from 17th to 20th of February, will be shown video-sound installation of Norwegian artist Ingrid Berven Passion and controversy (Pasjon Polemikk th)in which twelve critics respond to 15 questions that the artist has set them. Questions examine the role and importance of critique in contemporary art and society in general, while touching on issues of gender, democracy, capitalism and consumerist society. Answers are shown simultaneously on six projection produce a cacophony of voices and a multitude of visual images, creating the impression that the critics apparently unsuccessful fight to win an independent space where they could freely express their views.

Film Festival program of 9th Nordic Panorama has devised a two selectors, Jing Haas, associate Filmkontakt Nord from Copenhagen, and Dimitrije Vujadinović from Balkankult Foundation.
After the premiere screening at the Cultural Centre of Belgrade and the Cultural Center "Student City" movies will be, as in previous editions of the Festival, during the 2012 be displayed in other cities in Serbia: Nis, Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Obrenovac, Cacak, Leskovac, Zajecar, Kraljevo.

FRIDAY, February 17th
19.00 THE LAST NORWEGIAN TROLL
         THE GRET MISTAKE
         LAS PALMAS
         COME TO HARM
         A FINNISH FABLE
         PEACEFORCE

21.00 LAST CHAPTER

SATURDAY February 18th
17.00 CHILDREN`S PROGRAMME
         SID THE PIKE
         LEARNING TO PLAY
         THE FIR TREE
         THE LAST NORWEGIAN TROLL

19.00 THE TONGUELING
          VENUS
          TWO FRIENDS
          TO ALL MY FRIENDS
          JENNY
          BABY BIRD, UNBORN

21.00 THE GOOD LIFE

SUNDAY, February 19th
17.00 THE LIVERPOOL GOALIE

19.00 SAMI`S FILMS
         THE WIND WHISPERS THERE IS SOMEONS BEHIND THE TUNDRA
         BUTT-NIILLAS
         DOWN AND OUT
         ROCKABILLY
         THE SOUND OF CALVES IN THE WORLD
         THE FROG THAT WAS RATHER UGLY
         MAN WAS BORN OUT OF THE SEA
         LEGACY
         TUNDRA OF ARVAS
         GRANNY STUMBLES
         REINDEER PRINCESS

21.00 LOOK AT ME
        SOUL CATCHER

MONDAY, February 20th
19.00 CLICKED UP
           CHRISTMAS PIGGY
           HOW TO PICK BERRIES
           LAST DAYS OF ARCTIC

21.00 TWIN BROTHERS

TUESDAY, February 21st
19.00 ARANDA
           IMAGINING EMANUEL

21.00 SHE `S BLONDE LIKE ME
           PIG COUNTRY

Tickets: starting February 14th, 16.00 - 21.00, at Ticket Box of Cinema Hall of BCC, Kolarceva St. 6. Prize: 200 RSD


With the kind support
FilmKontakt Nord, Embassy of Denmark, Embassy of Finnland, Embassy of Norway, Embassy of Sweden