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“Kustendorf” 2013
16/01/2013 - 22/01/2013
“Kustendorf” 2013
International Film and Music Festival Kustendorf will take place from 16th to 22ndJanuary 2013 in Drvengrad in Mokra Gora, Serbia. As in previous years, the Festival is dedicated to future filmmakers and already acclaimed authors. The special guest of the sixth Kustendorf International Film and Music Festival will be the renowned Italian actress Monica Bellucci.
Kustendorf 2013 will welcome all participating film authors and actors, as well as numerous young film students, authors, and many distinguished guests from the international film world.
More than 400 films of young authors and students from all over the world applied for the participation in COMPETITION PROGRAMME of the Kustendorf.
Emir Kusturica announced that the final selection includes 28 films from 18 countries: Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Korea, Mexico, Montenegro, The Netherlands, Philippines, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Serbia, Switzerland, UK and USA. The variety of themes and genres, actuality as well as outstanding quality of the selected films promise that the competition for the Golden, Silver and Bronze Egg Awards will be exciting and unpredictable.
International jury, that consists of Israeli author and actress Alona Kimhi (President of the Jury), American film producer, production manager and assistant director Michael Hausman and Serbian media theorist, film and TV director prof. Oleg Jeknić, PhD, will select and award the best films.
RETROSPECTIVE OF GREATNESS is a programme dedicated to Zhang Yimou, one of the most influential film authors of today who will, as one of the Festival’s guests, give workshops for students after the screenings of his films.
CONTEMPORARY TRENDS programme presents some of the last year’s most important films and their authors – the festival’s guests. They will give workshops after the projections of films.
The EVERGREEN programme will remind us of some of the most significant films of the past, such as the Time Stands Still by Péter Gothár, who will, as a special festival guest, give a lecture after the projection. Also, the Evergreen program will presents a movies of one of the most influential Polish authors Krzysztof Kieślowski–– Camera Buff and A Short Film About Killing.
NEW AUTHORS – is the programme that presents debut feature-length films by new promising talents slowly conquering the film world using new and original film language
MUSIC PROGRAM – Every night, after the screenings and workshops, the concerts of the international music stars will complete the atmosphere of Kustendorf nightlife. This year on Kustendorf we present: Nemanja Radulovic & Devil’s Trills (France / Serbia), Debout Sur Le Zink (France), Dejan Petrovic Big Band (Serbia), Trio Balkan Strings (Serbia), Radio Zastava (Italy) and Che Sudaka (Spain).