China News Service, Pingyao, October 11 (Reporter Hu Jian) The "New Serbian Movies in the Yugoslavian Era" retrospective is the "review" unit of the 4th Pingyao International Film Festival. On the 11th, the film "Raindrops, Water" created in 1962 , Soldier" screening, this is the Asian premiere of the film.
1962 movie "Raindrops, Water, Soldiers" poster.
Photo courtesy of the Organizing Committee
This year's "Review" section selected 9 new Serbian films shot between 1961 and 1973 for screening, of which 4 films were restored world premieres, and the remaining 5 were Asian premieres; many films were from 1992 Meet with the audience for the first time after years.
Serbian Prime Minister Anna Brnabic sent a congratulatory letter to this festival. She said that the Serbian films exhibited in this exhibition were extremely important for presenting the cultural discourse story of Serbia and Yugoslavia. The re-screening of these Serbian films once again proved the Republic of Serbia. It has a comprehensive strategic partnership and a steely friendship with China, and hopes that the film festival will contribute to strengthening the cultural exchanges between the two countries.
A poster for a retrospective of new Serbian films in the Yugoslav era.
Photo courtesy of the Organizing Committee
"New Serbian Cinema" occupies a very important position in the film history of the former Yugoslavia. This new wave of films occurred with the modernist movement that emerged in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1960s. Many outstanding new directors have emerged, as well as a Criticize film works full of vitality, energy and humanity.
These include the originator of Serbian modern cinema, the winner of the Jury Prize at the 20th Cannes Film Festival, Alexander Petrovic, who has been nominated for the best foreign language film at the Academy Awards twice, and has been nominated for the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals. Dushan Makaviev, one of the representatives of Yugoslavia's new wave of movies, and so on.
The films shown in the "Retrospective" section of the Pingyao International Film Festival include "When Love is a Past" and "Three Stories" directed by Alexander Petrovich. The latter was nominated for Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film; Duchamp Markavier "Man is not a bird" and "The Unprotected Innocent", the latter has won the Berlin Film Festival's 18th Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix and Fabisci Award; Mladimir Prisa Jorge "Girl" and "Dream" by Vicki; "Return" by Zivoin Pavlovic; "Festival" by George Kadijevic; and Voislav Kokan Rakonjak "Raindrops, Water, Soldiers" co-directed by Zivoin Pavlovic and Marko Babać.
This "review" was supported by the Serbian Film Center, Yugoslav Film Archive, Delta Film and Television, and Sarajevo Film Center. The curators were Mirohub Vukovic and Marco Muller. (Finish)