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LIFE – JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIES

 

   The Ethnographic Museum in cooperation with the Yugoslav Film Archive proudly announces the 32nd International Festival of Ethnological Film (29th September – 3rd October 2023), the oldest festival of its kind in the region, which will be presenting this year most significant films by authors from 26 countries.

 

The International Festival of Ethnological Film seeks to promote the outstanding visual research of traditional and modern cultures all over the world and to contribute to raising public awareness of the importance of cultural heritage for a beneficial development of human communities.

 

The festival selector, the renowned film and television director Vladimir Perović, has selected 47 films divided in three categories: the Main Competition program, Student competition program and Panorama. In addition to that, the festival will present two programs in focus, one of which is dedicated to the filmseries Roma Cosmos by director Bojan Dakić and produced by Radio-television Vojvodina, and the other to cult movies The Magic Sword (1950) by Vojislav Nanović, Karađorđe’s Death (1984) by Đorđe Kadijević, and Tempting the Devil (1989) by Živko Nikolić, all of which were based on Serbian ethnological heritage.

 

The Main competition and Student competition programs will be screened from September 29th to October 3rd at the Cinema hall of the Ethnographic Museum, and Panorama will be screened at the same venue on October 3rd.

 

The programs in focus will be screened at the Makavejev hall of the Yugoslav Film Archive, in Uzun Mirkova 1. The screenings of classic fiction films will take place on September 30th, October 1st and 2nd at 6 PM, whereas the Cosmos Roma series will be screened on October 3rd.

 

Finding Enok, film by Dutch author Dorna van Rouveroy which deals with Dutch colonial legacy in Indonesia will open the festival on Sept 29th.

 

Тhis year’s Grand Prixand other awards will be awarded by the jury comprised of Davor Borić, notable Croatian documentary filmmaker, Alesandra Tatić, last year’s Grand Prix recepient, and Romina Zanon, deputy creative director of the River Film Festival in Padova.

 

 

 

 

FINDING ENOK
Dorna van Rouveroy and Maurice Boyer, are looking for traces of Enok, her fellow sufferers and descendants
THE SCARIFIED
The Scarified is the story of a necessity, returning to the places of my childhood in order to understand the meaning of these marks on my skin
KAVA ‘O AOTEAROA
A collective of Pasifika cultural guardians reactivate the ancient Tu’i Tonga kava ceremony
CORN BEAT
In the region of Serra Preta, backlands of Bahia, few families of rural workers keep the tradition of work songs alive. They cultivate corn in traditional ways
THE VOICE OF HUITO
Luis Tayori is an indigenous Harakmbut descendant whose origins go back to the depths of the Peruvian Amazon
GROMONMON
In La Réunion, fleeing slaves go to live free in the highlands and build a kingdom
AT THE EDGE OF ALL POSSIBILITIES
Poverty brings with it crime and the following words of a poet come to mind. If you dig up the criminal, a human will come out
MY GRANDFATHER’S HOUSE
The director visits her late grandfather’s house to mourn his death with her grandmother. Once she is there, ugly truths about what kind of a man her grandfather was begin to surface
TREE CROWN
Come closer! Stop, take a break, stand besought, please hold on, stand straight, wait, don’t go away, don’t hurry! Cries of poignant epitaphs echo in the silence of old village cemeteries
MARGO
This story explores the mid-century archival films by German woman musician Margot Dias who documented life in the extreme north of Mozambique Africa, then a Portuguese colony
KAMBANA
A mother and her two sons are rejected by society because of the children being twins
HALF YEAR
Kol Caka is a 76-year-old man who travels with his flock of sheep in the Albanian Alps to enjoy the bounty of nature for half a year
THE SHIFT
The Shift depicts the lives of people who have to travel back home after working hard on their so-called weekly tours

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                               

 
 
 
 
 

                                                

 

                                   

 
 
 
 

 

                 29.09. - 03.10.

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