[spectre] dokufest, Prizren, September 2004

[Inke Arns]

[I think there's still time to submit films ... Greetings, Inke]
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DOKUFEST
international documentary and short film festival
Prizren, Kosovo/UNMIK
first week of September 2004
http://www.dokufest.com
info at dokufest.com


The festival

Doku fest – overall is percept by its organizers an experience that 
tries to bring together for few days, artists and art lovers of 
documentary and short film in a specific space.

Its goals are creation of a sound context where different persons can 
reflect its hopes, fears, dreams, visions, phantasy and their 
perspectives that are based on general values of respecting human 
diversity. The organizers interpret diversity as an advantage for 
Kosova and in general for human kind.

During the festival various forums are organized where topics of 
discussions are films (documentary and short films) as well as 
various social topics.

Festival aims to get together people from Kosova, region and other 
countries and to use this diversity in order to exchange various 
thoughts, films and experiences believing on some universalism of 
some human experiences.


Prizren

Within the history of Kosova and the region, Prizren town- generally 
regarded as a crossroad of trade and industry, at the same time 
established itself as a synonym of culture and tolerance. Prizren is 
appreciated as a bastion of culture for all communities, where 
Albanian, Turkish, Serbian and Bosniac languages are freely spoken on 
the streets. Prizren citizens accept cultural divergences very well 
and are very open to new initiatives. This background of the historic 
and present context makes Prizren as an ideal town for organization 
of an international festival, which would implicitly and explicitly 
encourage development of the tolerance and further establishment of 
the peace in Kosova and the region.  


Inke Arns
http://www.v2.nl/~arns