53rd Thessaloniki Film Festival

Thessaloniki, Greece 29 Oct 2012

The 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival will take place November 2 to 11, 2012.
TIFF will screen 14 feature films produced in 2012 in Greece and in coproduction with other countries, two of which will be participating in the International Competition section. In addition, the award-winning Greek films from the Drama Short Film Festival will be presented during the event.
This year’s Thessaloniki festival is scheduled to host distinguished guests, tributes, master classes and round table discussions.
The iranian director Vahid Vakilifar with film Tabour is to represent Iran at the 53th Greek international film festival.

53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival

The List of greek movies:
A.C.A.B. All Cats Are Brilliant (Syngharitiria stous esiodoxous?), Constantina Voulgari, 95’, Greece
A Ship For Palestine (To plio gia tin Palestini), Nikos Koundouros, 120’, Greece
Big Hit, Karolos Zonaras, 93’, Greece
Boy Eating The Bird’s Food (To agori troi to fagito tou pouliou), Ektoras Lygizos, 80’, Greece
The Capsule, Athina Rachel Tsangari, 35’, Greece
11 Meetings With My Father (11 sinantiseis me ton patera mou), Nikos Kornilios, 90’, Greece
Joy (Hara), Ilias Yannakakis, 80’, Greece
Higuita, Alexandros Voulgaris, 67’, Greece
Kame Koummando, Manolis Damianakis, 78’, Greece
Loveless Zoritsa (Crna Zorica), Radoslav Pavkovic & Christina Hatziharalambous, 80’, Greece/Serbia/Cyprus/Poland
Papadopoulos & Sons, Markus Markou, 105’, Greece/UK
Red City, Manos Cizek, 100’, Greece/UK
The Telemachy (Tilemahia), Alexander Nally, 119’, Greece/UK
Yellow City (Kitrini poli), Savvas Katirtzidis, 98’, Greece

Balkans countries in their road to Oscars 2013

LA, 29 Oct 2012
A record 71 countries, including first-time entry Kenya, have submitted films for consideration for the best foreign language film Academy Award.

Balkans in the road to Oscars 2013

Among Balkans countries to take part in this competition are:
1. Albania – Pharmakon, Joni Shanaj, director;
2. Bulgaria – Sneakers, Valeri Yordanov and Ivan Vladimirov, directors;
3. Bosnia & Herzegovina – Children of Sarajevo, Aida Begic, director;
4. Croatia – Vegetarian Cannibal, Branko Schmidt, director;
5. Greece – Unfair World, Filippos Tsitos, director;
6. Macedonia, The Third Half, Darko Mitrevski, director;
7. Romania, Beyond the Hills, Cristian Mungiu, director;
8. Serbia – When Day Breaks, Goran Paskaljevic, director;
9. Slovenia – Slovenia, A Trip, Nejc Gazvoda, director;
10. Turkey – Where the Fire Burns, Ismail Gunes, director;

Kosovo and Montenegro due to lack of investments in cinematography have not submitted any films for the Academy Awards.

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Balkans countries on Eurovision Song Contest 2012

21 April, 2012 – Athens, Zagreb, Istanbul

The Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be the 57th annual Eurovision Song Contest. It will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, following Azerbaijan’s win in the 2011 Contest with Eldar & Nigar’s song “Running Scared”.
The two semi-finals will be held on 22 May and 24 May 2012, and the final on 26 May 2012.
Ten countries from each semi-final will qualify for the final and will be joined by Azerbaijan, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Forty-two countries have announced their participation in the contest, with Montenegro returning, having last taken part in 2009, with Poland and Armenia withdrawing from the show.

Below are listed 11 entries from Balkans countries (excluding Kosovo) participating in ESC 2012.

1.Albania.

2.Bosnia Herzegovina

3.Bulgaria.

4.Croatia.

5.Greece.

6.FYROM

7.Montenegro.

8.Romania.

9.Serbia.

10.Slovenia.

11.Turkey.

Share your thoughts and expectations for Balkans songs.

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Anida Idrizovic – Winner of “ZMBT4”

Sarajevo, BiH

Anida Idrizovic wins the “ZMBT4”, a talent show aired by Hayat TV. After a long night with lot of performances and expectations Anida crowned as a winner among the other six finalists.

The second place Mirza Selimovic, who won the first place based on televoting. And the third place was for Sacir Ameti, a singer from Prizren (Kosovo).

Anida Idrizovic-Winner of ZMBD4

 

Sacir Ameti won the first place based on votes from the jury.

Sacir Ameti – 3rd at “ZMBD4”

 

Below you can watch the final moments of the Show.

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The Balkan’s “Amy Winehouse”!

Tirana, Albania

Music show “The Voice of Albania” turned out to be one of the most successful music production in the Balkans.

Week after week show grew and the talent was immense. Enrika, Rina, Yll, Marsele and Arilda kept being frontruners.

Rina Bilurdagu - The Voice of Albania

This week, again, one of the most powerful performance was of Rina Bilurdagu. By far Rina has the most distinctive vocal in “The Voice”. She set very high the standards for singing. Rina possesses a deep, profound voice with a great control and technique. She remain the favorite to win the competiton.

Below you can enjoy the latest performance of Rina.

Semifinals of “The Voice of Albania” to come: Friday 3 February, 20:00 CET on TopChannel   

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Rita Ora tops the Upcoming Artist List for 2012

Rita Ora, the new British-sensation is amongst the upcoming to-watch-artists for 2012. She has been chosen by Rap-Up Magazine together with some other new artists, rhymers and entertainers, like Azealia Banks, A$ap Rocky, D-Why, Neon Hitch, Bei Maejor etc.

The latest Rita Ora & DJ Fresh’s smash hit “Hot right now” is getting really hot after being clicked more than 2 million times.

Watch the “Hot Right Now”- Official Behind the Scenes

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LuJoyed – “Dance”

LuJoyed debuts for the very first time in the Balkans music market. This Pristina-based duo (Lum and Jon) promise to break the uniformity in making music. Their music is more than pop and dance genre.

“Dance” is a carefully crafted soundtrack for the Balkans party people.

Video is created by Think Creative.

Enjoy 😉

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Macedonia and Serbia decide for ESC 2012

Skopje (Macedonia), Belgrade (Serbia),

Soon after Serbia had confirmed that Željko Joksimović’s will participate on ESC 2012, FYR Macedonia broadcaster MKRTV also announced that one of their biggest star, Kaliopi, had been chosen to represent them in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 Baku, Azerbaijan.

Serbia won the ESC 2007 with “Molitva” sang by Marija Serifovic, while Macedonia best result was in 2006, when Elena Risteska sang “Ninanajna” in Athens, Greece and came 12th. Despite never finishing in the top 10, their record of qualifying for every final was only broken in 2008, when the jury vote used in the semi-final chose Sweden as a finalist, despite Adrian, Tamara and Vrčak having come 10th in the televote and not saved by the jury.

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Miss Universe 2011 – Balkan Beauties

A video composure of Balkan Girls journey at Miss Universe 2011 in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Miss Kosovo, Aferdita Dreshaj placed in Top 16, while Miss Montenegro, Nikolina Koncar won Miss Congeniality 2011.

Miss Kosovo enters Top 16 at Miss Universe 2011

Sao Paolo, Brasil 12 Septemeber 2011

Aferdita Dreshaj, Miss Kosovo 2011 is the only candidate from the Balkans to enter in Top 16 at Miss Universe 2011.

She was among the most favorite girl for the win.

This is the 4th time for Kosovo to participate at Miss Universe, and the third time to place!

Aferdita Dreshaj, Miss Kosovo 2011