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Five Domestic Films on FEST |
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We are happy to inform you that this year’s FEST will include as much as five domestic films: Emir Kusturica’s "Promise Me This", Marko Kostic’s PAPER PRINC Nebojsa Radosavljevic’s film "MILOŠ BRANKOVIĆ" Milan Kilibarda’s PICASSO and Darko Bajic’s "THE BEAUTIFULL BLUE DANUBE".
The film ZAVET by Emir Kusturica will be screened on Thursday, February 28th, at 19.30h in the framework of the Program “Horizons”. Starring in this film are Marija Petronijevic, Uros Milovanovic, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Aleksandar Bercek, Kosanka Djekic, Predrag Miki Manojlovic, Stribor Kusturica and Vladan Milojevic. In ZAVET, the grandfather, his grandson and Bosa, the village teacher the school of whom has been closed, are the only inhabitants in the deserted village at the top of the mountain. The grandfather, who is feeling he is nearing his end, sends his grandson Cane to the closest city to sell their only cow, buy an icon for the church he wants to renovate, find a wife and bring back home a memory. The grandson goes to town for the first time. There he meets Jasna, a decent city girl living with her mother, who is working in the kindergarten as a regular job, while at night she is working in a brothel. The latter is controlled by Marko, who “owns” much of the city. Cane meets two engaging city hobos who want to help him draw Jasna’s attention. Fulfilling his grandfather’s wish and fleeing Marko and his gang, Cane returns to the village at the time his grandfather prepares to marry Bosa, his longstanding love. While the grandfather stands up to Marko and his men, Cane and Jasna go to marry each other in the recently reconstructed church – the young take up the role of the old, even in the remotest of villages...  The film PAPER PRINC by Marko Kostic is also screened within the program “Horizons”. Starring in this film are Milica Spasojevic, Stefan Lazarevic, Milica Mihajlovic, Goran Radakovic. The film shall be screened as a matinee at 12.30h in Dom Sindikata on the first Festival Saturday, on February 23rd.In the film, Julija is living with her parents who love her very much, but are nevertheless neglecting her to some extent. One day, after she has remained at home on her own, Julija is letting a suspicious guy, Nikola, in the house. He tries to steal, but when Julija catches him red handed, they become friends. When he leaves, she gives him as a gift her mother’s earrings and father’s passport, which six months later results in a dangerous situation for the family. With the help of her friend Pegi and colorful grandmother Ema, Julija goes out to find Nikola. PAPER PRINC was first shot as a full feature film, which was proclaimed Best Domestic Short Feature Film at the 2005 Belgrade Festival of Short and Documentary Film. At the same event, it was awarded the Award for Direction and the Special Award “Jovan Acin”, awarded by the Ministry of Culture, the Association of Film Artists and the RTS. The same year, at the Festival of Short Film in Drama in Greece, the PAPER PRINC was part of the top selection for Best Balkan Film and it was also successfully screened at 12 more international festivals.
The film "MILOS BRANKOVIC" is a story about crime, punishment and justice. The latter is the biggest looser. Milos Brankovic is an ordinary young man, who only wants to become a successful architect and to love Alexandra. He suddenly becomes victim of a fraud and gets maltreated by a street gang. His life is becoming a nightmare… The Film PICASSO: ЈOURNEY INTO THE FRIENDSHIP by Milan Kilibarda is part of the “Facts and Puzzles” Program and shall be screened on Tuesday, February 26th, in Dom Sindikata at 18h.
The film with the honor to close the Festival is THE BEAUTIFULL BLUE DANUBE by Darko Bajic. The action takes place on a lavish boat during a two-day journey from Vienna to Belgrade, where exhausted and frustrated people from Western Europe come to relax and do business (with the help of alcohol, entertainment and sex) with a young Eastern European crew that is trying to make enough money to escape their small meaningless lives. Starring is the international crew including Miki Manojlovic (the Swede), Branislav Lecic (the German), Dragan Nikolic (the French), Goran Jevtic (the Pole), Ivan Bosiljcic (the Romanian), Ana Franic, Bojana Maljevic, Aleksandar Lazic, Jelena Gavrilovic, Ana Maljevic, Marko Savic, Ljuba Bandovic, Zlatko Rakonjac, Ana Bretsnajder, Tim Sejfi, Majkl Picirili, Ursula Gotvald, Sara Lavinija Smidbauer and Kornelija de Pablos. The songs for parts of the film have been done as for a musical by In the film, the lavish boat “Krimhild” is on a two-day journey from Vienna to Belgrade; it is a floating sin city, where exhausted, unhappy and frustrated people from Western Europe come to relax and do business (with the help of alcohol, entertainment and sex) with a young Eastern European crew that is trying to make enough money to escape their small meaningless lives. It is a story of a clash of two worlds, mentality and habits on a boat, in one night in which prejudices and borders fall, produced by “Magic Line” and “Dream Factory”. The Project has been awarded the funds on the competition of the Film Center of Serbia and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia and it was also supported by the Ministry of Capital Investments. |
This year’s FEST will see the premiere of the 
authors Bora Djordjevic, Momcilo Bajagic, Kiki Lesandric, Rambo Amadeus and Vlada Divljan. The film will be screened on Sunday, March 2nd, at 19.30h.