The Golden Beggar ( sk, Zlatý žobrák) is the first and the oldest international

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of local TV

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, which takes place every year in June in Košice, Slovakia. The festival was established in 1995 to celebrate, popularize and support European local TV broadcasters production. The Golden Beggar is a huge database of local programmes and a place of high quality workshops, lectures, presentations, round tables and discussion forums. It is also a market place for programmes and a place for co-production opportunities. The official language of the festival is English. Simultaneous interpretation with translation from and into Slovak, French,

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and

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is available. The festival

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is headed by

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Ed J. Baumeister (France/U.S.). The patron of the festival is

Maroš Šefčovič Maroš Šefčovič (; born 24 July 1966) is a Slovak diplomat and politician serving as Vice-President of the European Commission for Interinstitutional Relations since 2019, previously holding the office from 2010 to 2014. He has been member o ...

, vice-president of the

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responsible for Inter-Institutional Relations and Administration.

List of winners

* 1995 - ''

Crime that Changed Serbia ''See You in the Obituary'' ( sr, Видимо се у читуљи / ''Vidimo se u čitulji'') is a 1995 television documentary directed by Janko Baljak, and scripted by Aleksandar Knežević and Vojislav Tufegdžić. It is based on the book '' ...

'' (

B92 RTV B92, or simply B92 (stylized as b92, formerly BΞ92 and B 92), is a Serbian news station and broadcaster with national coverage headquartered in Belgrade. Founded in 1989 as radio station, it was a rare outlet for Western news and informati ...

, Belgrade, Yugoslavia) * 1996 - ''Daniel'' (

Sitel TV Sitel Television ( Macedonian: Сител Телевизија, ''Sitel Televizija'') is the second private television channel in North Macedonia. Programmes Sitel Television was founded on 22 January 1993, as the second private and independent ...

, Republic of Macedonia) * 1997 - ''Mountain Boy'' ( Alternativna TV,

Banja Luka Banja Luka ( sr-Cyrl, Бања Лука, ) or Banjaluka ( sr-Cyrl, Бањалука, ) is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest city of Republika Srpska. Banja Luka is also the ''de facto'' capital of this entity. I ...

, Bosnia and Herzegovina-

Republika Srpska Republika Srpska ( sr-Cyrl, Република Српска, lit=Serb Republic, also known as Republic of Srpska, ) is one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is locat ...

) * 1998 - ''Gone with the Wind'' ( TV Flux, Republic of Moldova) * 1999 - ''Attack'' ( TV Niš,

Niš Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names in other languages) is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District. It is located in southern part of Serbia. , the city proper has a population of 183,164, while ...

, Yugoslavia) * 2000 - ''Helmut Bistika'' ( TV Naša, Košice, Slovakia) * 2001 - ''Possibly You'' ( TV Global, Košice, Slovakia) * 2002 - ''The Rules of the Game'' ( TV Wisla,

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

, Poland) * 2003 - ''The 21st Century'' (Alternativna TV, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina-Republika Srpska) * 2004 - ''The White Village'' ( TV Čačak,

Čačak Čačak ( sr-Cyrl, Чачак, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Moravica District in central Serbia. It is located in the West Morava Valley within the geographical region of Šumadija. , the city proper has 73,331 inhabitants, wh ...

, Serbia and Montenegro) * 2005 - ''Muharem Music-The Eyes Of Life'' ( TV Krug, Serbia and Montenegro) * 2006 - ''Doctor Schileru'' ( TV Etalon, Romania) * 2007 - ''Mothers from the Kingdom of Shadows'' ( OWH Studio, Chişinău, Republic of Moldova) * 2008 - ''The Humoresque'' ( TV Etalon, Romania) - An unusual portrait of a 94-year-old woman who has adhered to moral principles all her life, but she suddenly runs into a blind alley… * 2009 - ''Peking 2008'' (

TVP Katowice TVP3 Katowice a.k.a. TV Katowice also Television Katowice is one of the regional branches of the TVP, Poland's public television broadcaster. It serves the entire Silesian Voivodeship with particular dedication to the Upper Silesian Metropolis a ...

, Katowice, Poland) - A film by Dagmara Drzazga is the record of a year-long observation of the people living in Polish “Peking” – the story of their joys and daily problems… * 2009 - ''Resonances'' ( Eva Verein, Poland) - A film by Alina Cyranek, Marc Recchia. The film is about a young woman, who is full of internal contradictions, and a maverick. Until her seventeenth birthday she always wanted to become a nun but things turned out differently... * 2010 - ''Kill the Day'' ( TV Belsat, Belarus) - An ordinary village in Belarusian Palessje. An old pair, Antanina and her husband Viktar, sit knee by knee in their small village hut, decorated with home-made cloths… * 2011 - ''I was just a Child'' ( Radio-Television of the Republic Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina) - A film by

Branko Lazić Branko Lazić ( sr-cyr, Бранко Лазић, ; born 12 January 1989) is a Serbian professional basketball player and captain for Crvena zvezda of the Adriatic League and the EuroLeague. He has also represented the senior Serbian national bask ...

is about a man who has rescued 30 children from certain death in the concentration camp Gornja Rijeka during World War II, risking his own life… * 2012 - ''Bell Ringer'' - a film by Kate Makhova, Belarus.

External links

Official website of the Golden Beggar festival
Culture and Arts in Košice Film festivals in Slovakia {{Europe-film-festival-stub