The Cinema City International Film Festival is primarily focused on promoting young film authors and indie production from the country, the region and the world, but also on presenting legendary authors and their achievements through retrospectives and review programmes.
Conceptually, the festival is comprised of: Cinema City Films, Cinema City PRO and Cinema City Music
“Cinema City Films” – through ten selections, competition and review, this part of the festival screens some of the best achievements of new domestic and foreign productions. Every year the festival screens over 100 films, most of those being premiere screenings, and plays host to a significant number of film authors and crews from the country and abroad.
“Cinema City PRO” is intended for film authors and professionals from the country and the region. Its objective is to support education and networking and cooperation between the people who are the present and the future of domestic and regional cinema. In its activities it comprises two parallel directions of film production in Serbia – domestic film production and service of foreign production. PRO selection of the Cinema City festival is comprised of Cinema City Campus and Cinema City Industry.
“Cinema City Music” organizes the opening and closing parties of the festival, as well as numerous concerts and accompanying music events during the festival.
During its previous editions, the Cinema City International Film Festival screened over 600 films, welcomed approx. 300,000 film aficionados and more than 2,500 renowned film professionals from all over the world. Cinema City played host to the Board of the European Film Academy and numerous directors, producers, screenwriters, actors, and film professionals such as Guillermo Arriaga, Juliette Lewis, Béla Tarr, Nick Powell, Bruno Chatelin, Laurence Herszberg, Andreas Dresen, and many film stars from Serbia and the region.