Kustendorf 2022 festival to be held May 6-10 on Mt. Mokra Gora: Competition program announced

To mark one hundred years since the birth of Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, a retrospective program will feature films by this great author

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The 15th Kustendorf film festival will be held from May 6 to 10, 2022 in Drvengrad, on Mt. Mokra Gora, under the slogan, "Devastating and wonderful beauty of creation," with guests, and in front of an audience. The festival was to be held in January but got postponed due to the pandemic.

To mark one hundred years since the birth of Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, a retrospective program will feature films by this great author. The slogan of the festival comes from a short film by Pasolini, titled, "What Are the Clouds?"

The competition program of the 15th Kustendorf will feature 15 films that at the same time represent trends in recent production of short films, but also stand out for the authenticity of their author's views and the skill of filmmaking.

The competition program:

Carmela, Alfonso Villanueva Garcia, Fabiola Villanueva Bernal, Spain

Clear Sky, Igor Tsoy & Andrey Zamoskovny, Russia

Danzamatta, Vanja Victor Kabir Tongola, Switzerland

Elephant in the Mall, Ziv Mamon, Israel

Good German Work / Colleagues, Jannis Alexander Kiefer, Germany

How I Beat Glue and Bronze, Vladimir Vulević, Serbia, Germany

In Shallow Water, Marek Mouchka, Slovakia

Love stories on the move, Carina-Gabriela Dașoveanu, Romania

North Pole, Marija Apcevska, Serbia, North Macedonia

Real News, Luka Popadic, Switzerland, Serbia

Terminal Happiness, Eric Romero, Portugal, Estonia, United Kingdom

The Ceremony, Tadeusz Kabicz, Poland

Tótem Loba (She Wolf Totem), Verónica Echegui, Spain

Useless Opera Singers, Pablo Serret De Ena, Denmark

We’re Not Animals, Noé Debré, France

The competition program will be screened, along with the festival's other programs, between May 6 and 10 in Drvengrad (Mecavnik) on Mt. Mokra Gora, in western Serbia. Film directors competing for the awards of Kustendorf 2022 are invited to the festival, organizers announced.

(Telegraf.rs)