The jury
Bozidar Zecevic (Serbia), Jana Bébarová (Czech Republic), Michael Phillips (USA),
Awarded films
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Feels Like Home by
Gábor Holtai,
(Hungary, 2025, 124 min)
Motivation: “The FIPRESCI jury applauds this exceptional debut, which moved us with its wit, multi-layered theme and rigorously exacting style. More than merely topical, the FIPRESCI prize winner of the European Film Festival Palic speaks to us as a brilliant metaphor for the abuse of power, manipulation, and oligarchic practices in the governance of a nation—phenomena we witness on a daily basis, regardless of the country we call home”.
The festival started in 1995 and has always been open to a European perspective of Serbia. The program includes a Main International Competition and a Parallel Encounters section of films from ex-Eastern Block countries as well as Mediterranean countries.