JUBILEE 10th DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL: At Beldocs about a hundred films and guests

The slogan of this year’s “No More Dark” Festival is from the title of Frenki Fenton, which competes for the awards of this year’s Beldocs

Jubilee 10th Belgrade International Documentary Film Festival Beldocs, under the slogan “It’s Not Darkness”, from May 8th to 15th, will feature novelties, top-notch films of contemporary documentary and attractive and provocative guests such as Bernar-Anri Levi and Cicolina. In the Great Hall of the Center Sava opens the film “Once again with emotion” about the emergence of the now famous album Nika Kejva.

The slogan of this year’s “No More Dark” Festival is from the title of Frenki Fenton, which competes for the awards of this year’s Beldocs.

89 films from 40 countries of the world will be shown, in thirteen program units, in four premieres.

“The diversity of the program, the numerous guests, and there will be 94, twice as much as the Fest where there were 40 guests, all adds value to the film projection, and our greatest encouragement is that the number of films will be great, especially as the number of movies has increased significantly Compared to last year, “said the director of the festival, Mladen Vusurovic.

He said there would be “many forums and workshops of attractive and controversial guests such as Bernard-Anri Levi and Cicolini who really has global fame”. A total of 94 guests arrive.

Vusurovic also said that today Beldocs is “the only festival in Belgrade that has the Council of Audience, which is gathering during and after the festival, and closely follows the response and comments on the numerous surveys we collect, in order to find out where the viewer we want to develop the festival “.Beldocs will have four international premiere: Manuela von Sturler’s” craving “, who in 2012 won a number of awards around the world with the Zamsky nomads and the European Film Academy Award for Best Documentary, European Oscar.

Iranian director Sarvnaz Alambeigi brings the film “Land of the Tomorrow” as the world premiere, and Latvian director Stanislav Tokalov will premiered a film about the giant of chess game Mahail Talya.

Slovenian director Varja Močnik in Belgrade will have the world premiere of the documentary “Bulldozer” about the same name ex-yu music group.

Among the domestic documentary directors in the competition program are six feature-length world premieres and three world premiere in the revue program.

Jubilee Beldocs will be divided into 11 program units. The domestic program selector is Marko Grba Singh, and international Greg Di Kjur.

The International Competition Program also brings the winners of the big festivals IDFA, Sandens, Tribeca, Berlinale.

The Biografski dokumentarci program will present the characters Ingrid Bergman, Helmut Berger, Mihailo Talja this year.

Musical-dance films “Kiki”, “Pljuni istini u oci” will be shown – about Bulldozer group, “Oke ole ole!” On Rolling Stones concerts in South America, Kii, Ka Chan, Mr Gaga.

Two retrospectives will also be shown at Beldocs – Goran Markovic and Alon van der Horst.

“Earth in focus” is this year Croatia. In the program “Millennium Consciousness from Women’s Perspective” will be eight films Jelena Novaković, Ines Pletikos, Dane Budisavljević, Liljana Šišmanović, Vanja Juranić, Lane Šarić, Zrinka Matijević and Ivona Juke.

The novelty is the Beldocs special program, which was supported by the Foundation for an Open Society with the theme “Creation Vs Destruction”. There will be presented high-aesthetic engagements.

This film program is led by the renowned French writer, philosopher and director Bernard-Henri Levi with two films – Peshmerga and the Battle of Mosul.

A novelty is an Educational program with four films, from 12 pm in the Youth Center, for high school students.

The Beldocs Festival was supported by the European Union and the Foundation for an Open Society, the Film Center of Serbia, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Embassy of Israel, the Goethe Institute, the Embassy of Sweden, AlJazeera Balkan MEDIA desk Serbia. Support is also expected from the Ministry of Culture and Information of Serbia and the Secretariat for Culture of Belgrade