During the Sarajevo Film Festival in August, Film Centre Serbia (FCS) and the Greek Film Centre (GFC) signed an agreement to work together and share distribution costs.
Nikos Labôt’s “Her job”
The two countries’ film centres have agreed to set up the means to help distribute Serbian films in Greece and vice versa. For example, the FCS will cover the cost of translating and subtitling Greek films distributed in Serbian cinemas, and may even award subsidies for distribution. The GFC will do the same for Serbian films purchased by Greek distributors.
This is the first collaboration of its kind between these two countries’ film industries . “It’s an incentive for distributors,” says Boban Jevtić, director of the FSC. “We believe there is a real interest in the films of our respective countries. […] It is very important to start creating a public for these films in Serbia and Greece, not just in Belgrade and Athens.”
This summer, for the first time in nearly 20 years, a film co-produced by the two countries has completed shooting. “Her job”, first film by Greek director Nikos Labôt, is a collaboration between Homemade Films (Greece), Sense Production (Serbia) and Sister Productions (France).
Sources: Screen Daily, Cineuropa, First Films First
