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Küstendorf Film Festival ((セルビア語:Кустендорф филмски фестивал)) is an annual event held during early January in the village of Drvengrad (also known as Küstendorf) in the Mokra Gora region of Serbia. Established in 2008, it is a film and music festival organized by Rasta International, film director Emir Kusturica's production company, in the village whose construction he financed in mid-2000s on the slopes of Mećavnik hill. The festival has no commercial sponsors and is partly financed by the Serbian government's Ministry of Culture. In addition to feature films shown in several programs and musical performances, the festival features a competitive component for short films. The festival's main prize, Golden Egg (Zlatno jaje), is awarded for the best short film. Vilko Filač Award is given out for the best cinematography. ==2008== In its inaugural edition from 14 to 21 January 2008, the festival's main guest was Nikita Mikhalkov who held a workshop with a retrospective of his films also being shown - ''12'', ''A Slave of Love'', ''A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov'', and ''An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano''. The festival was officially opened with the burial of ''Die Hard 4.0'' at the Bad Films Cemetery. The ceremony featured Nele Karajlić as Orthodox priest, Kusturica as eulogist, girls from Vrelo as wailing women with even the main guest Nikita Mikhalkov joining the procession.〔(Küstendorf 2008 )〕 Other guests at the festival included Fatih Akın, Cristian Mungiu (came with his Palme d'Or-winning film ''4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'' and held a workshop), Miki Manojlović, Michael Radford, Serbian prime minister Vojislav Koštunica, Eran Kolirin, Danish film critic Christian Monggaard, Matija Bećković, and Romanian actor Răzvan Vasilescu. The jury headed by Peter Handke and featuring Italian producer Andrea Gambeta and Greek journalist Ninos Feneck Mikelidis awarded the Golden Egg to Spaniard Jose E. Iglesias Vigil (graduate of National Film School in Łódź and Mistrzowska Szkoła Reżyserii Filmowej Andrzeja Wajdy in Warsaw) for his short film ''In Between''. The Silver Egg went to Englishman Martin Hampton for ''Possessed'', and the Bronze Egg went to the Colombian Franco Lolli (graduate of La Fémis in Paris) for ''Como todo el mundo'' (Like Everybody Else).〔(RTS piece from 2008 Küstendorf )〕 The musical program consisted of performances by: Almezijan's Obsession from Armenia, Kal from Serbia, Stribor Kusturica & the Poisoners, Vrelo, No Smoking Orchestra, Nervozni Poštar, and Kiki Band. Held against the backdrop of the approaching Serbian presidential elections contested between incumbent Boris Tadić from the ruling center-left Democratic Party (DS) and challenger Tomislav Nikolić from the opposition right-wing Serbian Radical Party (SRS) as well as speculation that Albanians from Serbia's province of Kosovo were in the final stages of coordination with the United States to unilaterally declare independence, the festival received plenty of attention both in the Serbian and foreign press. Political angles and overtones dominated press reports such as the one by Marie Colmant in center-left ''Libération'' who, after giving praises to the festival for celebrating auteur cinema, wondered if the fact that festival's jury is headed by Peter Handke — whom she described as someone "who still smelled of sulfur after being at Milošević's funeral and who wrote about Serbs in panegyric form due to seeing them unjustly accused of all evils" — also mean that Kusturica adheres to these ideas. She answers her own question by saying that, like Handke, Kusturica also believes western Europeans have demonized Serbs and Serbia, but that the Serbian director supports center-left candidate Tadić at the presidential elections.〔(A Kustendorf, Emir fait le maximum );''Libération'', 30 January 2008〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Küstendorf Film and Music Festival」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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