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Italian Adriatic Regions
Province of Ancona
Province of Ascoli Piceno
Province of Lecce
Province of Teramo
Province of Venezia
Municipality of Monte San Vito (AN)
Municipality of Morro d'Alba (AN)
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Adriatic Eastern Countries
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Prefecture of Durres
Croatia
Split-Dalmatia County
Montenegro
Municipality of Bar
Serbia
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Adriatic and cinema
Cinema is an excellent key to enter the Adriatic area.
Probably the first name one could mention is Emir Kusturica.
Born on 24 November 1954 in Sarajevo, he is a Serbian director, musician and producer. Author of 8 movies, several television and short films, he also plays guitar in a rock band. Among his many prizes, he has received two golden palms in Cannes for “When father was away on business” and “Underground”, and the silver Bear (special jury prize) in Berlin for “Arizona dream”.
“I lost my city during the war. This is why I wished to build my own village. It bears a German name: Kustendorf. I will organize there seminars for people who want to learn how to make cinema, concerts, ceramics, painting. It is the place where I will live and where some people will be able to come from time to time. There will be of course other inhabitants who will work there. I dream of an open place with cultural diversity which sets up against globalization.” (Emir Kusturica, July 2004).
This is a project Emir has worked on for several months. And it is now a reality. First name was Mecavnik but now is Küstendorf. It is the name of a traditional village that Emir has built where the shooting of Life is a miracle took place, southwest from Belgrade, in Serbia, close to Uzice - Mokra Gora, not far from the Bosnian border.
The village was rewarded in 2005 by the prestigious Philippe Rotthier architecture prize for the reconstruction of the city.
Cinema school
The school has opened during summer 2005 on the theme “Art is (not) in transition”, oriented on the transition in the Balkans from communism to capitalism. The one week cinema workshop, directed by Emir Kusturica himself, took thirty young filmmaker students from the whole world. Living in the village, the “First Kustendorf class” had during the first days theoretical classes where Emir presented extracts of his favourite films, along with some scenes of his own movies, by making the students thinking of the techniques of the filmmaker. In the second part of the workshop, the students made two short films, based on scenarii written in Küstendorf, and taking as a main character the cook of the village.
The film festival
Emir Kusturica launched even a cinema festival in Kustendorf. The first edition of this festival took place from 14 to 21 January 2008, in the underground theatre of the village. It was a festival without red carpet (even thought some big directors such as Nikita Mikhalkov and Fatih Akin were invited). The winner received a “golden egg” (note the “biorevolutionary” juice bottles on the table of the press conference).