12th Magnificent Seven in Belgrade
… with the long subtitle ”European Feature Documentary Film Festival” starts on January 29 and goes on until February 4… Time for a small warm-up to this yearly celebration of the documentary film on the screen in the Sava Center in Belgrade. For one who during the year watches most documentaries on his computer it is an extraordinary experience for seven nights to sit down with around 1000 viewers to enjoy a documentary film on a big screen followed by meetings with the makers – and to be totally spoilt by the warm hospitality of Svetlana and Zoran Popovic, the festival directors, and their loyal team of young and younger film people, many of them former students of the Popovic couple, who run the Kvadrat film school in Belgrade.
I will post daily from the festival with promotional texts about the 7 films selected by the festival directors and me, plus reports from the Q&A and seminar sessions that the invited filmmakers do with the participation of local filmmakers.
The seven films of this year are, in the order of screenings: ”Our Last Tango” (German Kral), ”Twilight of a Life” (Sylvain Biegeleisen), ”Mallory” (Helena Trestikova), ”Lampedusa in Winter” (Jakob Brossmann), ”Don Juan” (Jerzy Sladkowski) , ”Brothers” (Wojciech Staron), Palio (Cosima Spender).
