New Author Film Festival www.faf.rs in Belgrade Serbia screened Croatian film “Kino Lika”. This time it is praised and brand new film by younger generation Croatian film director Dalibor Matanic. The film awarded in Montpellier really have captured attention of well known Belgrade’s film critics was already screened at 14 Sarajevo Film Festival and Pula Film Festival and ever since it won a loads of attention and by now it has been shown in Belgrade Cinema. This is a fifth feature by Dal...
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According of one of aspects of the The Festival of New Author Films www.faf.rs in Belgrade Serbia, festival’s policy of renewing classical patterns of film narrative in the changed technological and civilization context we had the pleasure to see sort of renewed films. One of such is “Skin” based on true events and set in 1979, and is the tragic story of a boy who fights with a father traumatized by the Holocaust. The first feature length movie won 2...
Beside Steve McQueen’s feature debut “Hunger” that share the main Aleksandar Sasa Petrovic Prize of A New Author Film Festival in Belgrade Serbia the Kazakh’s film “Tulpan” directed by Sergej Dvortsevoy the festival www.faf.rs presented so much more of just winning laureate. Established 14 years ago, A New Author Film Festival in Belgrade had the intention to familiarize Belgrade with the world cinematography. Regarding that one of the honored guest of festival was Icelander Solv...
Lets not forget that this festival, established 14 years ago, the Festival of New Author Films www.faf.rs in Belgrade Serbia honouring the different type of festival audience respecting two aspects: looking at the new possibilities of motion picture expressions and renewing classical patterns of film narrative in the changed technological and civilization context. Beside the homage showcase of Zivojin Pavlovic one of the most important Serbian filmmakers and the French philosopher and most...
On the territory of Balkan, in countries of ex Yugoslavia, it is beyond the doubt a miracle to see film that deals on every day subject of a contemporary life we all are living in. One Croatian film director does that really well. I’m talking about film director and professor of Drama Academy in Zagreb Zrinko Ogresta. He deals with no past civil war; no Balkan politics toward rest of the world, no war crimes, no people trafficking, but ordinary people and ordinary life, on such manner that any...
In the mid- to late '70s, the punk rock explosion found a growing number of young musicians throwing off the constraints of big-budget production and 70s glamour as they struggled to bring rock & roll back to its rebellious roots. Other key synthpop influenced groups and artists from the early-mid 1980s include Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Tears for Fears, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Ultravox, Human Leaque, The Cure etc… In overall lessons of punk began to loose it, another breed of mu...
6th Zagreb Film Festival www.zagrebfilmfestival.com hosted Aida Begic, Bosnian female film director, with her post war story “Snijeg” (“Snow”). Her first film “Snow” is actually pretty narrative feature, and is a winner of The 2008 Cannes Critic’s Week Grand Prize. It’s a story about the recent blood stain of ex Yugoslavian Bosnian history-the massacre of Bosnian Moslem. The traumatic impact of which is still being felt by its widowed and orphaned survivors. Even if the film is v...
Stefan Arsenijevic’s “Love and Other Crimes” on Zagreb Film Festival 2008
www.zagrebfilmfestival.com represented Serbian film. On one way, generally speaking, it’s a typical Serbian film, showing general depressive atmosphere in Serbia nowadays, with alienated people, spared from direct impact of a civil war but self-destructive on the other way. As it is a Serbian/German/Austrian/Slovenian co-production film still represents Serbia.
It is happening in Belgrade’s so call...
Every country in the region of ex Yugoslavia today has its own characteristics, recognizable by its style and aesthetics. And each one appeals on a certain type of audience. But the things that all ex Yugoslavian films have in common are serious lack of finances and a past civil war as theme.
Jan Cvitkovič is an established film director from Slovenia, who already won Golden Lion Award in Venice on Mostra 2001 for his feature film, "Kruh i mliko". Cvitkovič’s film &quo...
On 6th Zagreb Film Festival (www.zagrebfilmfestival.com) on the merit of this years Jury (Marit Kapla-Director of the Goteborg Film Festival, Sejla Kameric-film director and Nadine Luque-film producer) this year’s programme for feature and shorts offered hilarious Belgian Chaplin style feature “Rumba”. This film won The Golden Pram Award for Best Feature Film and it is directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy. It’s a choreographic and physical movement film that resemble...
6th Zagreb Film Festival www.zagrebfilmfestival.com this year offered a pretty good documentary program.
A "Bomb Harvest" www.bombharvest.com
produced by Lemur Films Australia, established by the director/writer of film Kim Mordaunt and producer Sylvia Wilczyinski on Zagreb Film Festival went very well. Mourdaunt and Wilczynskiare are known by award winning dramas and documentaries done for ABC TV, SBS TV and Discovery.
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6th Zagreb Film Festival www.zagrebfilmfestival.com this year offered fantastic documentary program. Among 12 documentaries one of the documentary on Zagreb Film Festival 2008 especially attracted attention. It is a "Bomb Harvest" produced by Lemur Films Australia, established by the director/writer of film Kim Mordaunt and producer Sylvia Wilczyinski. Mourdaunt and Wilczynski have made award winning dramas and documentaries for ABC TV, SBS TV and Discovery. At the moment, they are d...
Ever since 1980s Belfast-born writer and director George Terry has been writing and producing plays at NYC's Irish Arts Center. His combination of theatrical and journalistic experience, gave him the chance to co-script "In the Name of the Father" (1993) directed by Jim Sheridan. George first collaborated with Sheridan on his 1985 play "The Tunnel", based on his experiences as a prisoner in British jails in Northern Ireland. "In the Name of the Father" won an O...
Sarajevo Film festival CineLink is the industry section of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Its activities are spread trough out the year and are designed to meet the current needs of Europe’s film industry in reshaping. Festival workshops are concentrating on script development, financing and marketing, that producers and authors of selected feature-fiction projects undertake before presenting their projects at the CineLink Market. Taking place during the last three days of Sarajevo Film Festi...
Fifth time on Sarajevo Film Festival well known British film director once again proves his visits. Well, he's not a man for celebrity glamour. In life as in his films, he likes to keep things real and he is very English.-“It is a special place and there are number of reasons. Generally I think Sarajevo is a unique kind of place. The festival was born out of extraordinary tragedy and no other festival that I am aware has it. The nature of the city is very energetic and I find it very enriching...
Sarajevo Film Festival 2008 hosted Todd Haynes, one of the most controversial film authors today. Haynes had his films shown every day on the festival in the program Tribute to. His films are social and cultural essay on a sexuality subject in a traditional Christian American society. Social re-examination in his films and redefinition are one of the most important issues in his films. This re-examination sometimes also implies research in its complete absence as is the case with the films “Sa...
Friday edition of Sarajevo Film Festival Coffee program as a regular event of Festival Centre was host by British director Sharon Maguire and producer Andy Peterson. Their joint project the film “Incendiary” was presented to viewers of the 14th Sarajevo Film Festival. Talking about her beginnings as a film director Sharon Maquire emphasized her earlier career as TV journalist that helped her understands the great power of film. Then she decided to try on do an art film herself. I think we...
The Oscar winner Charlie Kaufman we’ve met on Sarajevo Film Festival in a very relaxing discussion when Kaufman spoke about the frequent presence of Darwin’s theory of evolution in his screenplays.“Synecdoche, New York” film shown on Sarajevo Film Festival, was actually so very anticipated directorial debut done by Charlie Kaufman, the unusual writer who stands behind “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, “Adaptation” and “Being John Malkovich”. His scripts examine the n...
