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A film blog by Allan Berg Nielsen & Tue Steen Müller

Filmkommentaren.dk

A film blog by Allan Berg Nielsen & Tue Steen Müller

Cinema Komunisto Success

It was one of those nights – the premiere of Mila Turajlic’s ”Cinema Komunisto” – that will be remembered. A totally packed Sava Centre in Belgrade were present for the closing film of Magnificent7 Festival 2011. Standing ovations. It was late January 2011 and now almost 2 years later, the film, first of all thanks to the incredible energy and skills of the director herself, the film is still travelling the world after lots of festival screenings and several awards.

”This exhaustively researched and elegantly edited documentary…”, writes the critic of The Times after the theatrical premiere in the UK a week ago. Other reviews, including one from celebrity critic Philip French in Guardian, are equally positive as you can see through the links below.

The film, that was also screened at idfa, comes out on dvd today in Serbia, is said to have a theatrical premiere in Paris… well, you can’t stop great films and talented directors.

http://www.cinemakomunisto.com/about/

http://www.magnificent7festival.org/home.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/nov/25/cinema-komunisto-review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/nov/22/cinema-komunisto-review

http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/cinema-komunisto

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/film/reviews/article3608922.ece

Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.