Starting from tomorrow and till
December 3, Belgraders will have the chance to attend the 20th
Auter Film Festival (
AFF) and watch films of various genres and different productions, from art to independent US productions, many of them award winning films from major festivals.
Tigers by Danis Tanovic
The festival΄s
Main Program is showing 21 films, including Cannes 2014 Palme d΄Or winner
Winter Sleep by
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey/Germany/France, 2014), Yi΄nan Diao΄s Berlinale 2014 Golden Bear winner
Black Coal, Thin Ice (China, 2014), along with
Leviathan (Russia, 2014), Andrey Zvyagintsev΄s Best Screnplay at Cannes ΄14, Jean-Luc Godard΄s latest
Goodbye to Language (France/Switzerland, 2014), Cannes ΄14 Grand Prix winner
The Wonders by Alice Rohrwacher (Italy, 2014),
Danis Tanovic΄s
Tigers (India/France/UK, 2014) and
Mommy by Xavier Dolan (Canada, 2014), who shared the Cannes ΄14 Jury Prize with Jean-Luc Godard.
The Jury of the 20th Auteur Film Festival is composed by Christoph Terhecht (head of the
Berlinale Forum), Serbian director and scriptwriter
Goran Markovic and German actress and scriptwriter Anna Bruggemann. The main award of the
AFF has carried the name of
Aleksandar Petrovic since 1995 while, from 2013 the award is accompanied by the sum of 5,000 EUR, provided by the
Aleksandar Sasa Petrovic Foundation.
Project Cancer by Damjan Kozole
Still,
AFF΄s most attractive screenings seem to be the ones of the
Side Program. The
Bande A Part section, among others, will screen films by Jean-Marie Straub, Jonas Mekas and Pedro Costa. There is the tribute to Serbian screenwriter
Branko Vucicevic (
Serbian Eccentric Film section), the
Retrospective of the Chosen Films by Purisa Djordjevic and the
Karl Baumgartner΄s Retrospective (a number of films the recently deceaced German producer made). The
Snoliki Film section will present various world classics, dedicated to the memory of Serbian editor and director Marko Babac, who passed away this year. Also, a mega-
tribute to Aki Kaurismaki (17 films) while the
Time of Music Biographies section screens 4 recent feature films and documentaries of music concern.
Industry discussions are also part of the 20th edition (
Educational Programs section). The
Balkan Film Connection educational program and networking platform, from
November 28 to December 2 holds a series of workshops, lectures, discussions and projections on the subject "Facing the New World" while the
Nipkow Program will present lectures on marketing and selling a film and on the legal aspects of copyrighting.