17 December 2008

Balkan Snapshots Film Festival and SMART Cinema present:

Premiere and Celebration | HUDDERSFIELD
(Hadersfild)
Ivan Zivkovic
Serbia, 2007, 95min

Saturday 20 december 2008, 20 hrs

Location: SMART Project Space, Arie Biemondstraat 105-113, Amsterdam
Where: Cinema 2 - Lower Level
Entrance: 9 Euro

Balkan Snapshots Film Festival and SMART Cinema celebrate the Cinema premiere of the Serbian film HUDDERSFIELD in Amsterdam. This film was very well received at the 2008 edition of Balkan Snapshots in last October. This is why we decided that the film deserves a regular screening. This is a good reason for a good old Balkan celebration. At 20.00 hrs we will screen the film HUDDERSFIELD, after which we will have drinks to the lovely sounds of two genuine Balkan DJ's that have their own style, totally breaking away from what we know as Balkan Beats.

ALES PHARMA Sasha, aka Ales Pharma is a Serbian DJ, living in Amsterdam. He doesn’t stick to one style, though he loves electro and edgy disco tech stuff.
Ales Pharma's MySpace

DJ TATA, living in Utrecht with Montenegrin roots, is a collector of all the great records from Yugo Punk to Balkan Wave. He will let us know what great era we have missed in our own boring disco drenched seventies and eighties!


HUDDERSFIELD - Ivan Zivkovic

With Goran Susljik, Nebojsa Glogovac, Vojin Cetkovic.

Feature – Serbia – 2007 – 95 Min.

Serbo-Croatian language with English subtitles.


The monotony of life in a sleepy Serbian town is interrupted for a group of friends by arrival of Igor, who moved to England in the nineties and is visiting home for the first. That evening they all come together to celebrate his return. What begins as a cheerful high school reunion party of close friends, turns into an emotional roller coaster of reminiscing, dark humour, bitterness, anger and grim soul searching.

Adapted from the acclaimed play by Ugljesa Sajtinac, HUDDERSFIELD is debut film of director Ivan Zivkovic. A raw and powerful drama, HUDDERSFIELD brings to the surface the unresolved conflicts and open wounds that haunt Serbia’s “lost generation” in their search for purpose and identity.



12-10-08:
Dear visitor,

Thank you all for visiting Balkan Snapshots! In our opinion it was a great festival; three busy days, great atmosphere, lots of Rakia inspired conversations in lots of different languages, sold out films and a packed concert with a magnificent Mostar Sevdah Reunion.

We thank the volunteers, the funds, our partners, Kriterion and Studio/K, and of course our you, our visitor, for making this year's festival possible and we hope to see you next year!

Here you can see the pictures of the festival, as you can see it's been a great event again. Nice!!!

'Pictures!'


8-10-08:
The film 'Baklava'(sat.11/10 22.00 S/K2) is banned in Bulgaria.. The director is under prosecution. He had to reschedule his flight from Canada so he would not land in Sofia where he has a chance of being arrested. It must be a shocking film.. or does the Bulgarian state have other reasons for banning 'Baklava' and prosecuting its young director Alexo Petrov? We'll show 'Baklava' and ask Alexo about why he thinks his film raises so much anger in his home country.

We have booked on Turbofest:

Mostar Sevdah Reunion Trio starring Ljiljana Butler, the Mother of Gypsy Soul!

Come and enjoy them at Turbofest!

But.. it's a filmfestival. So please do not leave this site without checking our big selection of films:
10 regions/10 films!

What else we got?

-Four shorts programs selected by four cultural organisations from Skopje, Belgrade, Sarajevo and Pristina.
-The central debate "Exotic/Excluded" Should Rakia and Gypsy music shape the Balkan image?
-Balkan Focus, in which we dive into worlds of Gypsy spaces and Titoist times
-Baf! Balkan Art Fluxion, a Balkan art exhibition organised by ReKult and Auropolis.
-Turbofest: the BSFF closing party with a great variety of live music and DJ's: Genc Salihu, Aleksandra Popovska, DJ Kareem Raihani, and many more.

Balkan Snapshots will blow your mind Balkan style!

Check the icons above to see the whole program. See you at Balkan Snapshots!