December at Yugoslav Film Archive

Yugoslav Film Archive, has prepared a retrospective of Goran Markovic for the end of the year, along with cycles of films starring Peter Sellers and Kirk Douglas, as well as the Serbian painter and director Mica Popovic,  and Chinese, Italian and underwater film festivals and a selection of European production of short films.

The retrospective of films written and directed by Goran Markovic from December 5 to 9 will include 13 films, beginning with his debut film "Special Education" (1977), through "National Class" (1979) to "Falsifier" (2013).

A Festival of Italian Film is offering from December 6 to 9 five films from the past two years, starting with a comedy "Ears" by Alessandro Aronadio, to a crime drama "Don’t Be Bad" by Claudio Caligari.

Yugoslav Film Archive’s on-going program Focus is dedicated to the famous actor Kirk Douglas, on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

Chinese Film Festival with classics of this Far East cinema will be held from December 12 to 17, and includes ten achievements filmed since the mid-30s to early 90s of the 20th century, including the "The Highway" by Yu Sun, "Spring in a Small Town" by Mu Fei, "Yellow Earth" by Chen Kaige.

"Intolerance", a film by American director D.W. Griffith, will be screened December 21 at Yugoslav Film Archive on the occasion of the centenary of this film accomplishment.

On the same day, the Archive will remind us of the famous Serbian painter, director and writer Miodrag Mica Popovic, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his death and will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the movie "From Dusk Till Dawn" (1996) by Robert Rodriguez.

Ahead of the New Year holidays, the Yugoslav Film Archive will screen dozens of European short films, which are on Eurochannel tour, unified under the title "My beloved family."

(SEEcult.org)