During Divan Film & Food Festival, the Cine Caravan attended a workshop “In/Outside the Editing Room”, held by Aleksandra Milovanovic, a teacher at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. The 5 critics were supposed to apply the knowledge obtained at the workshop by writing an analysis of a film seen in Cetate. Although the …
I had never been to Athens or Split, or even set foot in their respective countries, before taking part in The 5C Project. Yet, when I first heard about the project, Tirana was the one place I was most excited to visit. I may never get another shot at going to Albania, I remember thinking. …
It was all quite unexpected, like an extra mid-credits scene in a superhero movie. Belgrade was a surprising extra stop in The 5C Cine Caravan across the Balkans, an event organized by Nevena Dakovic and Aleksandra Milovanovic, two professors from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. We had all met Aleksandra Milovanovic at Divan Film Festival …
Ok, maybe the title is a bit of a clickbait, the 5 critics didn’t kill any bad filmmakers in Cetate. The real meaning would be this: there is no festival like Divan, and what happens there would be impossible to replicate in another place or festival. I’ve been going there for the last three years …
Forget all about classy, glamorous film festivals, red carpets, and fancy awards. A film festival can certainly be amazing without any of those standard festival elements, especially if the films are combined with other enjoyable activities. It is difficult to describe Divan Film Festival to someone who has never been to Cetate, an ex port in …
The third stop of the 5C Project was between 23rd and 26th of August in Cetate (Romania). Cetate is a village on the Danube at the borders of Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia. Up to WW1 was a harbour for exporting grain that has been recently turned by Poetry Foundation Mircea Dinescu into a cultural port …
Cinema is a live communication between the audience and the authors. In order to make that communication stronger by presenting the audience with some long forgotten films, The Albanian Cinema Project works on the preservation of Balkan films through their latest initiative. They are actively forging alliances with media archives from the Western Balkans, with all …
26 – 29 August 2016, Belgrade, Serbia Faculty of Drama Arts and Film Center Serbia Belgrade Film(E)scape is an associated event of the 5C Project Cine-Caravan: City_Culture_Cinema. The weekend-long Belgrade workshop program, taking place between the events in Cetate and Tirana, includes: Friday, 26 August 2016 Arrival of the participants from …
Masterclass “FILM CRITICISM: THE DIGITAL AGE” Presented by Dana Duma When: Tuesday, 23 August 2016, 17:30 -18:30 Where: The Attic, Divan Film Festival, Cetate We invite the participants to examine the impact of the digital age on film criticism. Since new digital technologies have brought about changes to filmmaking and to the film …
There is a special quality that only short films can attain, and that very few of them do. It doesn’t mean the rest of them are bad – though it does mean that those who do are good. For lack of a better term I’ll name this quality conceptualization and place it at a crossroads …