This year’s international film and music festival Kustendorf will take place from January 23 to 27 in Drvengrad on Mount Mokra Gora, and the competitive program will feature 17 selected short films out of 536 submissions, announced the Minister of Culture of Serbia, Maja Gojković, and the director and founder of the festival, Emir Kusturica.
The main guest will be Italian director Matteo Garrone, and this year, the festival will not have a musical component due to restrictions and financial constraints.
Authors from Serbia and 14 other countries will compete for the “Golden,” “Silver,” and “Bronze Egg,” as well as the “Vilko Filac” award for the best film cinematography.
Works from authors from Austria, Finland, Greece, Poland, Sweden, Germany, the United States, Egypt, Mexico, Uzbekistan, North Macedonia, India, the Czech Republic, Croatia, and Russia are part of the competition.
The international jury includes Italian writer and publicist Sandro Veronesi, Serbian actress Bojana Panić, and director from Uzbekistan Muzaffarkhon Erkinov.
The “Vilko Filac” award will be decided by the director of photography from Rome, Vladan Radović, and the director of photography from France, Michel Amathieu.
The festival program includes “Contemporary Trends,” “Retrospective of Giants,” and “New Authors.”
Guests of the festival will be directors of films in the program “Contemporary Trends,” Matteo Garrone, Edoardo de Angelis, Vladimir Perišić, Ilija Žeželjakov, and Giacomo Abruzzese.
The festival’s award, “Tree of Life,” will be presented to the awarded Italian director, Matteo Garrone.
The festival will be organized by the production company “Rasta International” under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture of Serbia.
The Kustendorf International Film and Music Festival is held annually in the ethno-village Drvengrad on Mount Mećavnik near Mokra Gora, Serbia.
The founder and director of the festival is film director Emir Kusturica.
It was established on January 14, 2008, with the ambition of providing young filmmakers with the opportunity to present their works.
Kustendorf Film Festival is conceived as a meeting place for giants of contemporary film, young filmmakers, and film-directing students participating in the competition with their short films. It also serves as a meeting point for established global directors and actors whose films are screened outside the competition.
The festival also hosts musical performances by various bands each evening during the festival.
Source: RTRS
