ROUND TABLE: WOMEN DIRECTORS OF SOUTHEAST EUROPE

Today will be held the round table Women Directors of Southeast Europe, which has, at the proposal of director Slobodan Sijan, been included in the program of the associated events of FEST. For that reason, Belgrade has received the visit of Ronald Halloway, expert in Eastern Europe film, who will be the moderator of the round table, as well as keynote speakers Zilke Johan Rebiger, the Director of the International Women’s Film Festival in Dortmund, Kostadina Jordanova, Head of the Cathedra for Film Studies on the St. Andrews University in Scotland and Bernd Buder, advisor of several film festivals (Go East, Berlinale…).

„We have gathered a great team on this round table. I’m not sure I know everything about women directors in this region. I hope that we will come to a mutual conclusion. Zilke had a program in Dortmund presenting women directors from Russia. There are a lot of women directors in this region in different areas of film creation and it is high time to have a discussion about that and to see whether this is merely a movement, some new wave and to see whether they want to leave their country, such as many German directors always wanted to go to Los Angeles. But many women directors nevertheless opt to stay in their country, to make stories about their country, themselves, Southeast Europe… I hope what I told you is an indication for what I expect from this round table.