In her work, Katarina Jovanović described the premiere of the film “Here and there”.
“Main actor David Thornton, who played ruined musician travelling between New York and Belgrade, held a final speech. For this script, director Darko Lungulov won “Balkan fond” prize in Thessalonica. He said that he was glad to see his first big film on FEST. Film “Here and there” will be in theaters during next fall”.

Žikica Živković wrote that more than 100.000 tickets were sold after ten festival days and more than 70 premieres of films in six categories.
“This thirty seventh festival edition is from this year one of the top three most visited festivals in FEST history. After our meeting in front of main entrance in “Sava centar”, by passing through shrilling scanner we have realized that we could make one mistake. We could attend convention of one of leading parties in the country which was held next to the theater press room. According to the number of visitors of our special broadcast site and our accounts on Twitter, “web-journalists of UNS” happily went home to their families, after very hard and challenging day.

In his work Darko Nikolić wrote that last day of FEST begun pretty quietly and that everything looked like one extremely regular, non working day in Serbia.
“In the beginning of the day, big building on New Belgrade looked more like closed museum, than something that could announce upcoming ceremony. Barely 30 journalists attended last press conference. Preoccupied with presence of few well known film workers, many of journalists “went crazy” reporting from one, so usual end of one, so big event.

Gordana Erić wrote about rewarded participants of FEST.
In category “Europe out of Europe” – Georgian film “The other bank”
“FIPRESCI” reward – Italian films “Gomorra” and “Il divo”.
“Nebojša Đukelić” reward – Serbian film “The life and death of porn gang”
Reward “Eritrocit” of daily newspaper “Politika” – Kazakhstan film “The gift to Stalin”

With title “Small but well chosen company” Dragan Milošević wrote about students who spend their test day on FEST.

Goran Necin wrote that four films were in final competition for the winner of “Europe out of Europe” category – “Shultes” (Russia), “No one’s son” (Croatia), “The other bank” (Georgia) and “The gift to Stalin” (Kazakhstan).

“By unanimously decision, “The gift to Stalin” is declared to be the best film in this category. Director of film Rustem Abdrasev got “Eritrocit” reward from daily newspaper “Politika”. Georgian film “The other bank” got “Special mention” reward.”

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On second day of the weekend students attended confession of one woman named Jelena, who’s ex husband was drug addict. Because of his drug addiction he still has problems and he is prosecuting her and their child. With help of Danica Radovanovic, students learned how to fight for this woman’s rights on Facebook, as well as to fight for rights of every person in danger in Serbia.

„Drug addict in Serbia can threaten his child life even when he has temporary precaution delivered juridically. Some other future story will narrate about improvement of legal act. This story is for those who are worrying about established laws. Or for those who should be worrying. This is the story about court of law and police in Sopot, who don’t do much to protect mother and her child from drug addicted father.

Jelena is a mother of a four years old child. After three years of conjoined life, she divorced from husband-drug addict because of his addiction. After that, she moved far away from birthplace, in order to start new life, with a new man. Thereupon the problems started. Ex husband don’t intend to resigne with the fact that he can see child only once in two weeks during the weekend. He comes under drug influence with threats, and all that Jelena and her child can hear from official departments is not promising for their peaceful sleep. This family found asylum in one of marginal municipalities in Belgrade. In one relatively small ambience, they can’t find understanding of other people, nor any other possible protection.

How can we help? Link from the heart to this action for big necessity for mother and her four years old son. If you do it, then do it for real. If we want to help, the idea have to be materialized: mother and her child must have adequate help. In this case that means protection. When? The best help is when it is on time and totally. Answer to the question „When” is the same for you and court of law and police and welfare work institutions. The answer is NOW”, wrote students on this page.

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The first group of students was under the impression of the inauguration of new president of United States of America, Barack Obama. They wrote that on January 20th new hi-tech president of USA swore in front of the bible, walking after that into his office. Christopher Hass, official blogger of the president transmitted all the key moments in last three weeks. Conclusion – America is finally smiling. She is smiling with a lot of pain in legs because of the long walking on Inauguration day.

Is Barack Obama the Messiah is the actual question: “… a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany … and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama” – Barack Obama Lebanon, New Hampshire”.

The second group of students looked back on other bloggers writing in text with title “Big brother’s eagle eye”.
„In many countries, governments have blessed unfounded arrests, long lock ups, even tornments without proceedings. Publicity about general protection and trust in “Big brother” has increased. Video-surveilances are sprouting, documents with biometric data are establishing and large crowd are spending days in front of modern fireplace – TV. The subject of this week research in the School of Web-journalism was the analysis of atmosphere considering this topics in Serbian blogosphere.

Blogger Marko said: “Reputedly, biometric passports are condition for non-visa regime for Serbian citizens. German government has resigned under pressure of publicity from taking biometric data of citizens for new ID. So, what we are going to do now? Now it is Germans that are crazy, right? Of course not, they can do it, whatever they are doing, they are good in it. But when they don’t want new ID’s with cheep, crazy Serbs are late in development, stupid nationalists, the enemies of progress”.

The third group of students was interested to find out what does Serbian blogosphere look like. Judging by aggregate of Serbian blogs – SerbianBloggers.info, our blogosphere is not to big. The authors still have “confused thoughts” because they are curious for various themes researching.
Serbian blogosphere is one pretty livelily and interesting place. Anyone can find something there. Like old culinary receipts that has been truly treasury of (not only culinary) knowledge.

In expectation of receipts, travelers of Serbian blog-wideness, who have or don’t have new passport, could run into a Vrtarić-My blog. It is a presentation of Miroslav Vrtarić from Čukarica. He is economist by profession, and fan of guitar, writing and socialising. With his identified blog Miroslav takes part in Serbian blogging community very successfully.

Report made by Dragana Banković