Today, ”Filmske novosti” is a film archive managed by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia, within the Cultural Heritage Protection Sector.
Back in 1944, following the liberation of Belgrade on 20 October 1944, Josip Broz Tito, the President of Yugoslavia, founded ”Filmske novosti” as the first film production company in the new Yugoslavia, entrusted with production of newsreels and documentaries.
From 1944 to 1989, 15.5 million meters of film tape were recorded, depicting political, economic and cultural events in the former Yugoslav area. The recordings of all the conferences of the Non-Aligned Movement, meetings and visits of foreign statesmen to Tito (Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth II, Haile Selassie, Nasser, Sukarno...), theatre premiers, film festivals, visits of famous artists (Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, Sam Peckinpah, Vivien Lee, and many others), the liberation wars and life in Algeria, Mali, Mozambique and Tanzania, make just a part of what ”Filmske novosti” safeguards today, and in the creation of which Mira Trailović and Puriša Đorđević as editors, Rade Marković as a voice actor, Dragan Mitrović and Stevan Labudović as cameramen and Đorđe Kadijević, Goran Marković, Dejan Karaklajić, Danilo Bećković, Miroslav Lazanski, Petar Ristovski as directors, have contributed by their long-standing work to ”Filmske novosti” journals, enriching their information purpose with artistic significance.
During these seven and a half decades, 2,813 newsreels were recorded and presented in all the cinemas of the former Yugoslavia before feature and other films, and the production of documentaries still continues.
Expert colaboration: Vladimir Tomčić, Director of ”Filmske novosti” newsreel.
Graphic processing: Anamari Banjac, academic painter.
