Romanian Films Featured At Emir Kusturica’s Festival

The film festival will promote the development of a new generation of filmmakers through a student competition and will showcase the work of new and established filmmakers, site variety.com informs.

The festival is to take place between January 14 and January 21 in the Serbian mountain resort of Mokra Gora.

Nikita Mikhalkov, one of Russia’s best known contemporary directors, will open the festival with a screening of his new film “12,” a remake of Sidney Lumet’s 1957 court room drama “12 Angry Men.”

Film school students from 12 countries including the Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Poland, Russia, the U.S., Cuba, Spain, France, the U.K. and Serbia will compete for golden, silver and bronze egg awards under a jury headed by Austrian writer-director Peter Handke.

The festival, supported by Kusturica and the Serbian ministry of culture, promises to be an idiosyncratic event.

The festival will feature some of the best film directors of 2007 with workshops and screenings of films by German director Fatih Akin (“The Edge of Heaven”), Cannes winner Cristian Mungiu (“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”), Israel’s Eran Kolirin (“The Band’s Visit”) Cristian Nemescu’s “California Dreamin’ ” and Kusturica’s “Promise Me This.”