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Sergi Lopez and David Oelhofen Landed at Mećavnik

Celebrated catalonian actor Sergi Lopez and french screenwritter and director David Oelhoffen have arrived at Mećavnik. The guests were given the traditional Kustendorf welcome – bread, rakija and salt – and are expected to present their new films at the festival. Lopez is here with Alice Rorwacher’s new film Happy as Lazzaro and Oelhoffen with […]

Portrait of Guerilla Fighter Turned President

After the opening ceremony, audience at the 12th Kustendorf have seen a new film directed by the festival founder, Professor Emir Kusturica. El Pepe, a Life Supreme is, as Kusturica told the audience, a film about the type of a president that doesn’t exist anymore –one of those for whom people shed tears. The Uruguayan guerilla […]

12th Kustendorf Kicks Off

Serbian film icon Slavko Štimac declared the 12th Kustendorf Film and Music Festival open tonight. The opening ceremony began with a musical piece by the Big Folk Orchestra Advahov Brothers, followed by a juggling performance by Cirkusfera. In praise of the Lodz Film School, the opening ceremony included the screening of two Polish shorts by […]

Stana Katić Completes Kustendorf Jury

Stana Katić, the Canadian-American film and television actress arrived at Mećavnik, where she will be a member of the jury at the 12th Kustendorf Film and Music Festival. Together with two other colleagues, Katić will have the tough task of choosing which movies deserve to get the Golden, Silver and Bronze Eggs this year.