Honeymoons

 "HONEYMOONS" is set in contemporary Albania and Serbia. We follow the fortunes of two young couples who decide to leave their respective home countries in search of a better life in Western Europe. When the Albanian couple, after all sorts of incidents, arrives in an Italian southern port, their problems start. 

CINEUROPA - Interview with Goran Paskaljevic, director of Honeymoons, during the International Film Festival of Venice. The story of "HONEYMOONS" is set in contemporary Albania and Serbia. We follow the fortunes of two young couples who decide to leave their respective "HONEYMOONS" is the first film co-produced by Albania and Serbia.

HONEYMOONS - THIRD GRAND PRIX FOR PASKALJEVIC in Valladolid. At the recently concluded 54th international film festival in the Spanish town of Valladolid, HONEYMOONS, director Goran Paskaljevic's latest film, captured the highest prize, the "GOLDEN Spike," as well as the FIPRESCI Award, the international jury of film critics.

HONEYMOONS, by Goran Paskaljevic - FESTIVAL PARTICIPATIONS

1. Venice Film Festival ( Italy ) 

2. Toronto Film Festival ( Canada ) 

3. International Film Festival Rotterdam ( Netherland ) 

4.Pusan Film Festival (South Korea)  

Serbian Director Goran Paskaljevic Dies at 73

Goran Paskaljevic, the director of 'Cabaret Balkan,' 'Midwinter Night's Dream' and 'When Harry Became a Tree,' has died. He was 73.
Born in Belgrade on April 22, 1947, Paskaljević studied filmmaking in Czechoslovakia at the illustrious FAMU school during the Prague spring. There he made his first short films; their themes of compassion for the poor and the despised immediately ran into censorship problems with the communist regime.
Among his final films were The Optimists (2006), Honeymoons (2009), When Day Breaks (2012), in which a Jewish professor learns about his past, and Land of the Gods (2016), set in India.
In 2008, Paskaljević was honored with a retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the same year he was named Officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

MoMA Presents: Goran Paskaljevic’s Honeymoons.
With Honeymoons, which was shot in part in Tirana, Albania, Serbian filmmaker Goran Paskaljevic (who was the subject of a midcareer retrospective at MoMA in 2008) became the first director to make a Serbian-Albanian coproduction—a courageous endeavor given the current antipathy between the two countries. Paskaljevic, who was himself exiled during Slobodan Milosevic’s rule, remains an unsentimental humanist who believes in crossing borders both national and metaphorical—and he makes such crossings the subject of Honeymoons. In a “new” Europe that strives to free itself from frontiers, two unrelated, loving couples must leave their hometowns, but they find their efforts to move forward unexpectedly stymied by national boundaries.

Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film.

https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1093

GRAND PRIX in Valladolid

At the recently concluded 54th international film festival in the Spanish town of Valladolid, HONEYMOONS, director Goran Paskaljevic's latest film, captured the highest prize, the "GOLDEN Spike," as well as the FIPRESCI Award, the international jury of film critics.

Under strong competition between the newest works of Paul Schrader, Steven Soderbergh, Theo Angelopulos, and other well-known filmmakers from around the world, Paskaljevic's film stood out, according to the president of the jury, renowned Italian director Ettore Scola, "by its force of cinematographic expression and strong emotional impact in an involved motion picture story from the Balkans."

Paskaljevic has won this prominent festival's prestigious award twice for his films "SOMEONE ELSE'S AMERICA" (1995) and "THE OPTIMISTS" three years ago. 

Roberto Rossellini and the British film director Ken Loach have each won the GOLDEN Spike twice, but the honor goes to Goran Paskaljevic who has become the only filmmaker to have been awarded this highest recognition three times at Spain’s most prominent, along with San Sebastian, film festival.

The awards will be accepted by HONEYMOONS' Albanian co-producer and co-scenarist, Genc Permeti, since our director is currently at the film festival in Sao Paolo, where he is presiding as president of the international jury. In a short press communiqué from Brazil, Paskaljevic thanked the jury and the festival at Valladolid emphasizing that he is especially proud that the decision was made by a competent jury led by the greatest living Italian director, Ettore Scola, as well as legendary Mexican director Arturo Ripstein, producer Antonio Saura, and others.

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