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UNDERGROUND SPIRIT AWARD TO SARA FGAIER Italian director and editor Sara Fgaier is this year’s Underground Spirit Award laureate assigned by the Palić European Film Festival for outstanding work in the field of independent film, as well as for a unique approach to film language and authentic authorial poetics built outside the mainstream industry.

UNDERGROUND SPIRIT AWARD TO SARA FGAIER

Italian director and editor Sara Fgaier is this year’s Underground Spirit Award laureate assigned by the Palić European Film Festival for outstanding work in the field of independent film, as well as for a unique approach to film language and authentic authorial poetics built outside the mainstream industry. She is famous for GLI ANNI (THE YEARS), for which she won the European Film Award (EFA) for best short film two years ago, and short films ARTURO (2014) and L’UMILE ITALIA (HUMBLE ITALY, 2014 ). As a director she participated in the realization of „9×10“, while as a director, editor and producer she participated in many other award-winning films.

On the occasion of this significant recognition, Sara Fgaier stated: „From the very beginning of my film work, I was lucky to find myself in the milieu of Italian independent film and its creative environment, where I could experience the greatest artistic and creative freedom. From the first independent productions to founding my own organization, my goal has always been to defend and protect independence and freedom, the basis of my artistic creativity.“ The Italian artist pointed out that she was very honored with the award of the Palić European Film Festival. „I value this award as a precious gift, recognition for my first 15 years of work and an empowering amulet for those who are to come,“ Fgaier concluded.

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The laureate is honored with Homage program, which will show a short film about her work directed by Stefan Franće, IL TRENO VA A MOSCA, with Sara Fgaier as an editor, a segment from L’UMILE ITALIA (co-director), LA BOCCA DEL LUPO (editor), GLI ANNI (director / editor), and BELLA E PERDUTA (editor and co-producer).

The Underground Spirit of Europe Award, established in 2008, has so far been assigned to French director F.J. Ossang, German writer-director Uli M. Schüppel, Serbian director Želimir Žilnik, Norwegian writer-director Joern Utkilen, the Swedish directorial duo Johannes Stjärne Nilsson & Ola Simonsson, French animator Edouard Salier, Hungarian super-8 duo the Bukharov Brothers, Yugoslavian/Slovenian director/cinematographer Karpo Godina (a key member of the Yugoslavian „Black Wave“), French filmmaker Bertrand Mandico, and the Vienna-based writing-directing couple Tizza Covi (Italian) & Rainer Frimmel (Austrian). Last year’s award winner was French writer-director Jean-Charles Hue.

This year, the twenty-seventh edition of the European Film Festival Palić will be held in a new term, from August 8 to 14 in Palić and Subotica, organized by the Open University of Subotica. At the 27th festival edition, the international jury of the Festival will assigne the Golden Tower for the best film and the Palić Tower for the best direction. The critics’ jury will assign the prize for the best film in Parallels and Encounters program, and Gorky List Award will be based on audiences’ votes. Besides, FIPRESCI jury awards the prize for the best film.

This year’s Palić European Film Festival will be held in compliance with all epidemiological provisions and recommendations in accordance with the current health situation, in order to prevent COVID-19. The organizing team of the festival prioritizes the health and safety of the audience, as well as the guests and the festival team. The official protocol, with detailed instructions on measures during the festival, will be adopted and published before the start of the event.

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