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Article: Motovun and Sarajevo Festivals.(Communiques)
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- December 22, 2004
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Make movies, not wars," was a phrase I heard throughout the summer of 2004 as I attended the sixth Motovun Film Festival in a beautiful mountaintop village in Croatia and the tenth Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia. Both festivals left audiences excited about the quality and variety of films coming out of 'the region' of countries stretching from the former Yugoslavia to Turkey, and in each festival, it was the 'regional' lineup of films that outsold the international, including Hollywood, entries.
Motovun was started by Croatian film-maker Rajko Grlic in 1998 in the Istria mountain village of Motovun with the support of various groups including the Croatian ...