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.
