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Israeli Eagles Wins at 41st International Film Festival FEST in Belgrade

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The closing night of the 41th FEST declared winner of the competition program Europe out of Europe of the International Film Festival FEST2013 Israeli film Eagels/Nevelot directed by Dror Sabo: the Award includes a financial prize of 2000 euros. Just another successful festival records more than 90.000 tickets sold and happy audience going home.

 

"When Daphna Levin and I started adapting a Yoram Kaniuk's novella into a script, I thought it was a very local story, an Israeli story. But since it started screening in different places around the world, I realized how this story is actually universal. It is the story of the elderly in the modern capitalist, western world. In every city, you can find the people who were once young and driven with ideals, who felt they were fighting and acting for something greater than them for something valuable. And now they sit lonely, transparent, attacked. And it is not only their problem, this is what Ephraim and Moshka are trying to tell you, that a society that abandons her elderly, that does not want to look back to her past with dignity, loses its right to exist. And also, nobody stays young forever…" said Dror Sabo.

 

FIPRESCI Award went to film Vegetarian Cannibal/Ljudožder vegetarijanac directed by Croatian film maker Branko Schmidt for a film that won awards at different festivals from Pula, Brussels to London. This award-winning achievement is the second part of the trilogy about pathology in Croatian society, which concerns other ex Yu countries, and it talks about crime and corruption in the Health Sector. The film is provocative and uncomfortable: it may also be cathartic to a Croatian public as well as Serbian. The paradox in the title of the film is not accidental: there are some tedious explicit scenes, that with subtle humor allow easy viewing regardless of the brutal and shocking scenes. It is a portrait of a lowlife doctor in a higher society in Croatia, as a comment on the present transition of humanism and  for a social transition scum, and an inverted Hippocratic oath. A gynecologist in the film by Branko Schmidt is vegetarian and cannibal in a way of being hidden misogynist who works abortions without the permission of mother, falsifies diagnosis, destroys healthy babies, which is hard to believe. The script was written by Schmidt by the book that was written by Ivo Balenovic. The writer of the book is a gynecologist who decided not to be a doctor due to a true events and apparent corruption in a famous Zagreb Hospital.

 

While Special Award of FIPRESCI Serbia was given to a documentary film Albert´s Way /Albertov put by Predrag Bambić about the life of Albert Meyer, famous designer of the Panavision Panaflex cameras and recipient of four OSCAR Academy Awards, also a special guest of the festival. Albert was born on the territory of Serbia, in a small village Perlez, but as a German born and living in Serbia just after the Second World War, he had to leave Serbia as he was mistreated by the communists. During the rise of a Berlin Wall, Albert Meyer immigrated to US and become the most successful camera designer in Hollywood. Meyer also won The Golden Signet of the Yugoslav Film Archive and Recognition of the Serbian Association of Camera. 

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