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2nd day of 33rd European Film Festival Palic

18.07.2026.

33rd European Film Festival Palić – Day 2

"Feels Like Home" by Gábor Holtai and "Nino in Paradise" by Laurent Micheli on Tomorrow’s Programme at the European Film Festival Palić

On the second day of the festival, Sunday, July 19, the Summer Stage in Palić will feature films from the Official Selection programme, starting at 9 p.m. with "Feels Like Home" by Hungarian director Gábor Holtai, followed by "Nino in Paradise" by Belgian director Laurent Micheli at 11 p.m.

In "Feels Like Home," an ordinary but lonely woman, Rita, is kidnapped. Her captors, the Árpád family, claim that her name is not Rita but Sylvie, a runaway from their family. Rita eventually realizes that the only way out is in – to escape, she must impersonate Sylvie. The more she becomes the missing girl, the more she learns about the family and gradually discovers that her life is on the line.

Nino Paradis, the protagonist of “Nino in Paradise,” reunites with his girlfriend Lale and his two best friends, Malik and Charlie, after a failed attempt to join the French Foreign Legion in order to evade the police. From side hustles to nights spent partying, Nino and his friends desperately try to find their place in a world that seems to have given up on them, while continuing to dream.

The Parallels and Encounters programme will present "Milk Teeth" by Mihai Mincan at 6 p.m., followed by "Black Money for White Nights" by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov at 8 p.m. at the Abazija Cinema in Palić.

“Milk Teeth” is set in Romania in 1989. During the final days of Ceaușescu’s dictatorship, in a small, isolated town, Maria, a ten-year-old girl, becomes the last witness to her sister’s mysterious disappearance. Devastated by the loss, she struggles to make sense of a new and terrifying reality. Can she summon the courage to grow up in a world on the brink of collapse?

In “Black Money for White Nights,” Marina (60), a maternity nurse, and her husband Gosha, a railway dispatcher, have spent years collecting small bribes to afford their dream trip to St. Petersburg and witness the White Nights. When Russia invades Ukraine and the travel agency disappears with their savings, their dream – and their illusion of control – collapses. Gosha ends up in hospital after being beaten while trying to recover the money, and long-buried betrayals come to the surface, forcing the couple to confront the lies on which they have built their lives and to search, amid the ruins, for a trace of dignity and grace.

As part of the Underground Spirit Award Laureate Homage, "Delta" by Kornél Mundruczó will be screened at the Eurocinema at 3 p.m. After years away from home, the protagonist returns to his hometown to reunite with his mother and sister. He finds his mother living with a new partner and his sister now a grown woman. As he attempts to build a new home and start life anew in the delta, a forbidden love affair develops between the siblings, leading to tragic consequences.

In the Germany in Focus section, "Home Entertainment" by Dietrich Brüggemann will be screened at 4 p.m. at the Abazija Cinema in Palić. The film follows a couple who unsuccessfully try to watch a film while being constantly interrupted by delivery apps, streaming platforms, and ultimately each other. What begins as a relationship comedy evolves into a sharp-eyed reflection on contemporary life, digital fatigue, interpersonal micro-disasters, and cinema itself.

In the New Hungarian Film section, “Mommy Blue” by Bernadette Mayer will be screened at the Eurocinema in Subotica at 7 p.m. As Máté (27) celebrates the birth of his son, his mother Krisztina (57), an art teacher, gradually loses her sight due to complications from diabetes. Reluctant to show vulnerability, she increasingly relies on Máté, who goes above and beyond to help her. When Máté's family prepares to move away, he is forced to make a choice, while Krisztina fears being left alone in the darkness.

In the Eco Dox programme, two films will be screened at 5 p.m. at the Lifka Art Cinema in Subotica: “Contingentia” (Vasilije Bujaković, Serbia), in which a group of young filmmakers arrives in Krško, Slovenia, to take part in a film workshop and faces a nightmare in which the specter of the nearby nuclear power plant lingers long after filming has ended; and “Filos” (Nurdan Tümbek Tekeoğlu and Orhan Tekeoğlu, Türkiye), which recounts the case of Cevat Şakir, who is put on trial because of an article he wrote, setting in motion a new chapter in his life with the support of the district governor.

In the New European Documentary Film programme, “Plastic Gods and the Mirror” by Branko Lazić will be screened at 7 p.m. at the Lifka Art Cinema in Subotica. Hundreds of videographers, filmmakers, travelers, bloggers, and video enthusiasts from around the world were invited to submit footage of objects hanging from the rear-view mirrors of their cars, trucks, and buses. No longer mere decorations, these objects become symbols of identity, memory, and belonging.

As part of the guest festival section presented by the Skopje Film Festival, "Mimi" by Darijan Pejovski will be screened at the Eurocinema at 5 p.m. The guest section presented by the Gornji Milanovac Film Festival will begin at 7 p.m. in the "Mira Banjac" Hall of the Abazija Cinema and will feature "Oops!" by Matic Dominko (Slovenia), "Pigeon Food" by Milica Spasojević, and "Duck Roast" by Jelica Jerinić.

As part of the EFA Shorts section, the programme block starting at 10 p.m. at the Abazija Cinema will include "The Eggregores’ Theory" (Andrea Gatopoulos, Italy), "We Beg to Differ" (Ruairi Bradley, Great Britain), "GRANDMAMAUNTSISTERCAT" (Zuza Banasińska, The Netherlands), and "The Last People" (Nicolás Pindeus, Austria).

The Special Screenings programme will include “Tomorrow Morning” (Jani Bojadzi, North Macedonia), which will be screened at 5 p.m. in the "Mira Banjac" Hall of the Abazija Cinema.

Tickets for the Official Selection programme are priced at 400 dinars for a one-day pass covering two films, while tickets for the Parallels and Encounters programme cost 300 dinars. Tickets can be purchased starting half an hour before the screening starts. Admission to all other festival screenings is free!

The European Film Festival Palić is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, the Provincial Secretariat for Culture, Public Information and Relations with Religious Communities, the City of Subotica, the European Union through the Creative Europe MEDIA program, as well as numerous partners and media sponsors.

For more than two decades, Gorki List has been a valued partner of the European Film Festival Palić, serving both as an integral part of its visual identity and as the sponsor of the Gorki List Audience Award, which encourages audiences to engage more deeply with the films presented at the festival.

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