Cinema City (film festival)

Cinema City is an international film festival held annually in Novi Sad, Serbia.

The film program also includes review selections, which every year honor different domestic and foreign directors and cinemas, Planet Rock selection for screening the best music documentaries, 360° for presenting the latest achievements of international indie production, Cinema City Shorts, and special screenings.

Its objective is to support education, networking and cooperation between the people who are the present and the future of domestic and regional cinema.

A special segment of the music program is PLANET ROCK FESTIVAL, which is a result of cooperation between the Cinema City Association and HNS Creative.

The vision of this project is to provide an original film and music platform in order to generate the framework for positioning Novi Sad as a new, creative entertainment center that stimulates alternative and progressive authors.

Guests of the festival in 2008 and 2009 were Guillermo Arriaga, who won the award for best screenplay at Cannes in 2005, winner of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York – Lance Hammer, the first Serbian winner at Sarajevo Film Festival – Vladimir Perišić, as well as domestic and regional film icons such as Miki Manojlović, Goran Paskaljević, Emir Kusturica, Pjer Žalica, Despina Mauzaki, and others.

A special guest of the 2010 Festival was the famous American actress and singer – Juliette Lewis, who performed with her bend at Cinema City music opening on June 5, 2010.