Flotel Europa receives new award

BELGRADE - After being premiered and receiving award at this year's Berlinale, the film Flotel Europa by Vladimir Tomic has won the award for best documentary at the Crossing Europe film festival in Linz.

This documentary essay film was compiled from personal VHS archive material owned by refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina who lived together on a huge ship in the Copenhagen harbor between 1992 and 1994, and speaks about the filmmaker's growing up in the unusual environment.

Flotel Europa is a feature-length micro-budget film, a co-production of the Film Workshop of the Danish Film Institute and Serbia's production house UZROK, with support from the Danish Arts Foundation and the Film Center Serbia.

Earlier in April, the film opened the Hamburg Documentary Film Festival in Hamburg, and will be screened as part of competition selections at goEast and DocumentaMadrid festivals, in Wiesbaden and Madrid respectively, and as part of a non-competition program at Dok.fest in Munich during the current and next months.

Flotel Europa will have its Belgrade premiere at the Beldocs festival on May 9.

Photo Tanjug, N. Jovanovic (illustration, archive)