Competition programme Parallels and Encounters is dedicated to feature films and documentaries from former Eastern European geopolitical region and deals with problems of transition of societies and political systems, ethnic relations, identity and need for peace and co-existence, tolerance in the widest sense.

Films are screened in Abazija cinema and quality of the films is going to be evaluated by three-member jury composed of eminent European film critics.

Young Spirit of Europe programme is dedicated to brave and inventive authors of unique poetics and attitude towards film. The programme shows features, documentaries, shorts, experimental, animated and all other possible forms of film seeking for new ways of expression and future of this art.

The program is going to take place on the summer stage at the Abazija cinema in Palić.

Culture is something you can always count on while seeking the way of understanding and acceptance. Traditional program New Hungarian Film has already been of a great help as a part of culture, trying, trough the art of film, to find those who are open to learn about Hungary. The program is inspired by the fact that there is a great population of ethnic Hungarians in the Province of Vojvodina, that hasn’t got opportunity to be in touch with the trends of contemporary Hungarian film production in cinemas or TV.

In the last few decades European film experienced great changes. Small and big national cinemas cannot be differed anymore. At the European film scene there are numerous changes and sudden happenings that put certain cinemas in the center of interest. This is why, ten years ago, we introduced Country in Focus program which presents some of the most important and most interesting film productions in Europe every year. So far Festival presented cinemas of 2004 Bulgaria Documentary, 2005 Austria, 2006 Russia, 2007 Norway, 2008 Israel, 2009 Finland, 2010 Belgium,  2011 Poland, 2012 Sweeden, 2013 Turkey, 2014 Georgia, 2015 Slovakia, 2016 Baltic, 2017 Croatia, 2018 Black Sea Country, 2019 Greece, 2020 Bulgaria, 2021 Slovenia, 2022 Ukraine, 2023 North Macedonia.

We live in the world where we can clearly see dreadful impact of human deeds on natural environment and planet Earth in general and on the other hand we experience growing conscious for necessity of actions towards peace between human kind and nature. Referring to this, in 2008, we started program that deals with ecological documentaries. In this program there are 6 films of the newest production. Program is being followed by a vivid debate as well as scientific conference during the Festival, where experts and activists in the field of environmental protection have an opportunity to contemplate various topics and issues. The programmer is Igor M. Toholj.

New European Documentaries program, established in 2019, gathers five works from all parts of Europe selected by Igor Toholj. This selection, from a very fruitful but also heterogeneous European production, every year singles out current feature-length documentaries that are imposed by theme, approach or means of expression ranging from personal, hermetic, to those engaged and activist.

EFA Shorts is the European Film Academy's short film tour, which brings the latest European Short Film candidates, nominees and winner to audience across Europe - and beyond

European Film Festival Palic from 2008, as part of the Young Spirit of Europe program, assign european filmmaker with the Underground Spirit Award for outstanding work in the field of independent film and unique authorial poetics built outside the mainstream of the film industry. On this occasion, every year, we screen films dedicated to the laureates.

European Film Festival Palić established Aleksandar Lifka Award in 1999 for the exceptional contribution to the European cinema. So far, laureates are Lucian Pintilie, Krzysztof Zanussi, Jiri Menzel, Andrzej Wajda, Miklos Jancso, Margarethe von Trotta, Theo Angelopoulos, Ken Russell, Ken Loach, Costa Gavras, Jean-Marc Barr, Nikita Mihalkov, Claude Lelouch, Roy Anderson, Ulrich Seidl, Christopher Hampton, Brian Cox, Rajko Grlić, Ildiko Enyedi, Christian Petzold and Michel Hazanivicius. The award of the same title every year goes to a national author as well. Some of the laureates are: Dušan Makavejev, Eva Ras, Gordan Mihić, Milena Dravić, Puriša Đorđević, Živojin Mitrović, Velimir Bata Živoinović, Goran Marković, Predrag Miki Manojlović, Goran Marković, Goran Paskaljević, Srđan Karanović, Zoran Simjanović, Emir Kusturica, Mira Banjac, Želimir Žilnik, Slobodan Šijan, Slavko Štimac, Rade Šerbedžija, Miljen Kljaković Kreka, Mirjana Karanović, Aleksandar Berček and Dušan Kovačević. The Award got its name after the regional pioneer of cinema – Aleksandar Lifka who, beck in 1911, established first cinema theater in Subotica. On this occasion, every year within pre festival program, we screen films dedicated to the laureates.

Eurocinema, as an annual European Film Festival project, dedicated to contemporary European cinema, is going to present selection of most important European films that entered Serbian cinema distribution. As an introduction to the Festival programs audience will have chance to recall of some last year’s European cinema titles and were most popular films in Serbian cinemas.

Eurocinema, as an annual European Film Festival project, dedicated to contemporary European cinema, is going to present selection of European children's animated and feature films that have entered cinema distribution in Serbia between the two festivals.

On one of the most beautiful squares in the country European Film Festival Palić, within the pre-festival program, screens five significant European film classics.