The 37th Belgrade International Film Festival
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By Lidija Butkovic
Photo Courtesy of the 37th FEST’s Press Department
During a ten-day festival, from the February 20 to March 1, 2009, there will be over seventy laureates shown from last year’s movie festivals around the world. Under the slogan “Register” projections will be held in the cinema halls of the “Sava Center,” the Belgrade Cultural Center, the “Balkan” cinema and Kinoteka – the cinema of the Yugoslav film archives. Belgrade will entertain over hundreds of authors, actors and producers from Europe, the USA and South America.
The organizers will announce an exhibition of artwork by the Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, a round table on the theme “Female Directors of Southeast Europe” and a business segment “B2B” which will present new Serbian productions and new Georgian contemporary film.
Once again the films will be sorted according the FEST’s traditional programs and lines, starting with the competitive program Europe out of Europe, across Horizons and Discoveries, Facts and Puzzles, and FantAsia. Original in this year’s FEST will be a program entitled New Argentinean Film, which will give attention to the cinema of Argentina.
The main program Horizons will bring together movies shown in prestigious film festivals and those that won significant awards. Among them are “The Class” by Laurent Canten, “Lorna’s Silence” by brothers Dardenne, “Gomorra” by Matteo Garrone, “The Elite Squad” by Jose Padilha, “Il Divo” by Paolo Sorrentino, and “The Wrestler” by Darren Aronofsky. Also, the audience will have a chance to view brand new movies by Clint Eastwood (“Changeling”), Sam Mendes (“Revolutionary Road”), and by Tom Tykwer (“The International”).
The program Discoveries, reserved for debutant films, will include “Let the Right One In” by Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, and the Romanian film “Hooked” by Adrian Sitaru. Raymond Depardon’s “The Modern Life,” and “The Beaches of Agnes” by Agnès Varda will be in the block Facts and Puzzles, which is dedicated to documentaries.
The only competitive part of FEST, Europe out of Europe, will include nine movies. In the new special program, New Argentinean Film, there will be seven films shown (five of them were part of the Cannes Festival). Films by Hirokazu Koreeda and Kiyoshi Kurosawa will be in the cycle named FantAsia, which is reserved for Asian cinematography.
FEST is an annual film festival held in Belgrade since 1971. The first Festival was held in the cinema hall of “Dom sindikata,” under the slogan “The Brave New World,” and was opened by Robert Altman’s “MASH.”
During the Yugoslav civil war, FEST was not organized in 1993 or in 1994. The Festival was interrupted in 1997 in protest against police brutality on The Branko’s Bridge. At that time, police beat the FEST’s public in an attempt to stop a demonstration against Slobodan Milosevich.
As for Serbian movies, at the forthcoming Belgrade festival ready for the screen will be “Maradona par Kusturica” by Emir Kusturica, “Zone of the Death” by Milan Todorovi? and Milan Konjovi?, “El Hombre“ by Aleksandar Bulat i Petar Krstev, as well as Darko Logulov’s film “Here and There” which will close FEST.
Tickets will be available starting on February 2nd. The prices are similar to last year’s: from 150 to 250 dinars, except for the opening evening when tickets will cost 400 dinars.
For more information visit the official web site:
www.fest.rs
Beogradski me?unarodni filmski festival
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Tokom deset festivalskih dana, od 20. februara do 1. marta, bi?e prikazano više od 70 laureata prošlogodišnjih svetskih filmskih festivala.
Pod sloganom „Registruj se“ projekcije ?e se održavati u dvoranama „Sava centra“, Kulturnog centra Beograda, biskopa „Balkan“ i Muzeja jugoslovenske kinoteke. Beograd ?e ugostiti preko 100 autora, glumaca i producenata iz Evrope, SAD-a i Južne Amerike.
I ovog puta ostvarenja ?e biti prikazivana u okviru tradicionalnih programskih celina i linija, od takmi?arskog programa Europe out of Europe, preko Horizonata i Otkri?a, do ?injenica i slagalica i FantAzije. Osobenost ovogodišnjeg 37. FEST-a bi?e program Novog argentinskog filma koji ?e skrenuti pažnju na filmski prostor te zemlje.
Organizatori najavljuju izložbu slika poljskog reditelja Jeržija Skolimovskog, okrugli sto na temu „Rediteljke jugoisto?ne Evrope” i poslovni segment „B2B” koji ?e gostima predstaviti novu srpsku produkciju i gruzijski savremeni film.
Udarni program Horizonti okupi?e na jednom mestu filmove koji su obeležili prestižne filmske festivale i odneli zna?ajne nagrade, me?u kojima su „Izme?u zidova“ Lorana Kantea, „Lorina ?utanja“ bra?e Darden, „Gomora“ Matea Garonea, „Elitna jedinica“ Hozea Padilja, „Div“ Paola Sorentina i „Rva?“ Darena Aronovskog. Publika ?e imati priliku da vidi i najnovije filmove Klinta Istvuda („Zamena“), Sema Mendesa („Revolucionarni put“) i Toma Tikvera („Me?unarodna prevara“).
U okviru programa Otkri?a, koji je rezervisan za debitantska ostvarenja, na?i ?e se „Otvori vrata pravom“ švedskog režisera Tomasa Alfredsona i rumunski film „Udica“ Adriana Sitarua, dok ?e “Moderan život” Rejmonda Depardona i “Plaže Anjes Varde” istoimene autorke biti u bloku ?injenice i slagalice koji je posve?en dokumentarcima.
U jedinom FEST-ovom takmi?arskom delu, Europe out of Europe, u?estvova?e devet ostvarenja, a u programu Novi argentinski film bi?e predstavljeno sedam, od kojih je pet ve? videla kanska publika. Filmovi Hirokazua Koreda i Kijošija Kurosave ?e se na?i u ciklusu FantAzija, koji je rezervisan za ljubitelje azijske kinematografije.
Od doma?ih ostvarenja na ovogodišnjem beogradskom festivalu bi?e prikazani „Maradona“ Emira Kusturice, „Zona mrtvih“ Milana Todorovi?a i Milana Konjovi?a, „?e“ Aleksandra Bulata i Petra Krsteva, kao i film Darka Logulova „Tamo i ovde“ koji ?e zatvoriti FEST.
Karte ?e se prodavati od 2. februara po prošlogodišnjim cenama od 150 do 250 dinara, osim za sve?ano otvaranje kada ?e ulaznica biti 400 dinara.
FEST je me?unarodni filmski festival koji se organizuje u Beogradu od 1971. godine. Prvi festival je održan u dvorani „Doma sindikata“, pod sloganom „Hrabri novi svet“, a otvoren je filmom „Meš“ Roberta Altmana.
U vreme gra?anskog rata u Jugoslaviji, FEST nije organizovan 1993. i 1994. godine. Festival je prekinut 1997. godine u znak protesta protiv brutalne policijske intervencije na Brankovom mostu. Tom prilikom batine su dobili gledaoci koji su se vra?ali sa projekcije iz Centra „Sava“ kada su naleteli na kordon policije koja je razbijala demonstracije protiv Slobodana Miloševi?a.
Za više informacija posetite zvani?ni veb sajt:
www.fest.rs
Scene from the movie “The Reader” – British actor Ralph Fiennes opens the 37th FEST
Scena iz filma “?ita?” – britanski glumac Ralf Fajns otvara 37. FEST