The international film festival "Kustendorf" directed by Kusturica ended in Serbia

The 18th International Film Festival "Kustendorf" of Serbian director Emir Kusturica ended in Serbia on January 25, where Russian participants took several awards.

Sofia Chigirova's film "Vselenie" won a special jury prize and the "Vilko Filac" award for the best camerawork, for which the director's future husband Vladislav Burlaka was responsible.

The second place and the award of the film festival - the Silver Egg - for the movie "Such Exactly Such a Day" went to the director from Russia Klavdia Korshunova, who could not come to Serbia, so the prize for her went to the director of the Russian House in Belgrade Evgeny Baranov.

"The most beautiful thing about this festival is that it made people more courageous and that they were no longer so indebted to the laws of the market that govern the world of cinema. Money is everything in the world around us, it's not like that in the free mountains of Serbia. After all, these are the free mountains of Serbia," Kusturica concluded.

Earlier, on January 23. Kusturica, at the opening of the 18th International Film Festival "Kustendorf" in the Serbian town of Drvengrad, expressed hope for the preservation of traditional values in Serbia. He recalled that since the middle of the 20th century, especially since the 1970s, the authority of artists began to decline in the world and especially in Serbia, but the director expressed hope that Serbian culture can still regain its former authority.