Three features in the main competition programme come straight from the Cannes Film Festival 2021 official programmes.
This year the honourary Aleksandar Lifka Awards for the contribution to European film are given to Serbian actor Aleksandar Berčerk and German director Christian Petzold. An additional special Aleksandra Lifka Award for the contribution to cinematographies of the region goes to Slovenian actress Milena Zupančič.
The main competition programme, which includes the world premiere of the Serbian film Bad Blood / Nečista krv / Greh predaka directed by Milutin Petrović, consists of the following twelve features:
The Mauritanian (UK)
Directed by Kevin Macdonald
A Blue Flower / Plavi cvijet (Croatia, Serbia)
Directed by Zrinko Ogresta
Produced by Interfilm (Croatia)
Coproduced by Zillion film (Serbia)
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Film Center Serbia
France (France, Italy, Germany, Belgium)
Directed by Bruno Dumont
The Worst Person in the World (Norway)
Directed by Joachim Trier
Only Human (North Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, UNMIK Kosovo*, Slovenia)
Directed by Igor Ivanov
Produced by Skopje Film Studio (North Macedonia), Art & Popcorn (Serbia), Gala Film (Bulgaria), Trigger, UNMIK (Kosovo), Iridium Film (Slovenia)
Supported by the North Macedonia Film Agency, Film Center Serbia
Natural Light / Természetes fény (Hungary, Latvia, France, Germany, Poland)
Directed by Dénes Nagy
Produced by Campfilm
Coproduced by Mistrus Media (Latvia), Lilith Films, Propeller Film (Poland), ZDF/ARTE, Proton Cinema (Hungary)
Supported by the National Film Institute – Hungary, Eurimages, the National Film Centre of Latvia
Brother’s Keeper / Okul Tıraşı (Turkey, Romania)
Directed by: Ferit Karahan
Produced by Asteros Film
Coproduced by Flama Booking
Supported by the Romanian Film Centre
Petrov’s Flu (Russia, Switzerland, France, Germany)
Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov
Copilot / Die Welt wird eine andere sein (Germany, France)
Directed by Anne Zohra Berrached
Bad Blood / Nečista krv – Greh predaka (Serbia)
Directed by Milutin Petrović
Produced by This and That Productions
Supported by Film Center Serbia, MEDIA Creative Europe
I Never Cry / Jak najdalej stąd (Poland)
Directed by Piotr Domalewski
Produced by Akson Studio
Coproduced by MK1, TVP
Supported by the Polish Film Institute, Warmia-Masuria Film Fund, Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, S481 (Rialtas na hEireann Government of Ireland), Eurimages, Screen Ireland
The Duke (UK)
Directed by Roger Michell
