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The article published on this website on January 17, 2013 is headlined 6th Kustendorf Film Festival kicks off .The article reports at length that the festival will bring together some of the most important filmmakers from across the world and numerous film students until January 22.
It’s an open secret that the festival is well-known for its informal atmosphere.
The festival is organized by famous Serbian film director Emir Kusturica. Emir Kusturica likes to invite both talented youths and world music and film stars to give them an opportunity to talk to each other. He calls Drvengrad ‘creative space’. In this connection it is worthwhile mentioning the fact that it often happens that even student work is shown in Kustendorf which gives the young a chance to be noticed, for example, in 2011 Russian actress and director Sonia Karpunina was awarded the festival’s main prize, the Golden Egg, for her short film The Chance, and this year 27-year-old Sonia is Kusturica’s guest for the third time with her new full-length comedy Everything Is Easy.

It was revealed that the opening ceremony began in front of St Sava's Church, on which the festival's symbol - a gold egg - was projected using light effects. This was followed by a holographic fight between Kusturica and Bruce Willis, in which the festival host's triumph symbolized a win for auteur cinema over Hollywood blockbusters.

Kusturica said the festival aspired and had been successful in presenting and supporting young people who "believe film is not just a vulgar commercial expression, but the art that Fellini and Tarkovsky talked about, and in which Miloš Forman was one of the greats." "This is our hope despite the media which are worse than Ancient Rome with its Colosseum where people were thrown to be eaten alive for the entertainment of the masses," he said.

According to Kusturica, the festival's goal is "the reincarnation of the films of the 1970s and 1980s, when cinema was a combination of entertainment and art." He then presented the Award for Future Films to acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou, to whom this year's Retrospective of Greatness is dedicated.

 The article concludes by saying that other guests at Kustendorf include Benh Zeitlin of the U.S., Aleksey Balabanov of Russia, Matteo Garrone of Italy, Elia Suleiman of Palestine, Peter Gothar of Hungary, Yesim Ustaoglu of Turkey), Italian actress Monica Bellucci and French actress Audrey Tautou.

In conclusion I'd like to add some more information.Competing for the gold, silver and bronze egg are 28 films by young filmmakers from 18 countries: Great Britain, Denmark, Israel, Korea, Cuba, Mexico, Germany, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Serbia, the U.S., the Philippines, France, the Netherlands, Montenegro and Switzerland.