Magnificent7 Festival Moves to New Venue

The Belgrade festival that screens 7 films, one per night, from June 8 till June 14 is moving from the Sava Centre to central Belgrade, to Kombank Dvorana.

I asked the festival directors to give me words about the new venue that opened after a total renovation a month ago. Here they come:

Dear Tue. it’s hard to put in two lines the history of the very first elite concert hall, festival hall and congress hall in socialistic Yugoslavia. Also the place of many different events that were attractive for big audiences and for media, sometimes European, sometimes from all over the world.Legendary kings of jazz (Luis Armstrong, Miles Davies, Oscar Peterson, B.B.King among the others) were there on the stage during sixties and seventies. Film stars at the biggest film festival FEST – Sophia Loren, Kirk Douglas, Robert DeNiro, Richard Burton, Elisabeth Taylor. Concerts of the most popular singers, groups, but also of some high class musicians like Artur Rubinstein.

Here is a small history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Sindikata

You should pay attention to the new name of the place KOMBANK DVORANA (where KOMBANK is the name of the bank giving the money for overtaking the name) and DVORANA that means hall.

Varme hilsener (Danish for Warmest) Svetlana and Zoran Popovic

http://www.magnificent7festival.org/en/index.php

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.

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