The New Wave Festival, which will be held tomorrow and the day after tomorrow in Budva, will host representatives of the new generation of artists from Montenegro and the surrounding area, and the organizers hope that the audience will be attracted primarily by an attractive music program.
Tomorrow in the Old Town from 21.30:XNUMX the Cetinje rock group Solid Ground and the Croatian post-punk trio Punčke will play, and later in the evening the rapper known for his satirical songs Kandžija and his accompanying band Gole žene, the local crossover band Mazzom u fugazz, as well as the most popular young Montenegrin alt - rock band Zoon politikon.
The new wave will also present young filmmakers from the region, so the audience will be able to see twenty-minute films by local authors Dušan Kasalica and Ivan Salatić on the first evening - "Pearl Coast" which won an award at the Sarajevo Film Festival and "Dvorišta" which was screened in the "Horizons" selection " at the festival in Venice, as well as "Nine Days" by the Serbian director Strahinja Savić. The second evening will be dedicated to Croatian directors Una Gunjak and Jura Pavlović, whose films "Kokoška" and "Piknik" won the European Film Academy awards as the best in 2014 and 2015. The film program starts every evening at 20 p.m.
"Participants of the festival are selected solely on the basis of quality, and in accordance with a modest financial framework. It is necessary to have an author's attitude and, above all, expression, and in the case of musicians, playing excellence is desirable. For films, the selection is somewhat easier, because the guidelines of the festival's awards in the region, from Sarajevo to Motovun. This year's music program will be rockier and more engaging compared to last year's somewhat stylized edition," explains Novak Govedarica, a member of the festival's organizing team.
The new wave was launched last year, and the interlocutor of "Vijesti" says that the biggest inspiration for organizing this event was the long lethargy after the summer and the boring Budva winter.
"Next, the absolute lack of inspiration and even the lack of agility of cultural institutions in the off-season. You can't imagine what a pleasure it is to listen to Bran Mandić or Ognjen Spahić in the middle of winter in Budva, when nothing at all is happening," he says, adding that the NGO "Agora" stands behind other events and has been promoting the "new wave" on the Montenegrin literary scene for years. Govedarica pointed out that the events are primarily dedicated to young people, in an attempt to get them interested in culture.
The organizers are satisfied with the debut edition of New Wave, which they describe as a complete hit and a positive move on the fast-growing (sub)cultural scene of Montenegro. Then, among others, they hosted the singer-songwriters Ana Ćurčin and Sara Renar, the Belgrade indie rock group Ti and director Senad Šahmanović.
"We don't have enough alternative, different, small festivals... We focus on a specific target group, the young and urban population that exists, but is not sufficiently visible. Appear, for example, at FIAT or SeaRock, so on rare occasions, at important cultural events. events that try to present contemporary tendencies and some new author's sensibilities. I think that we also succeeded in this, to a lesser extent at the debut edition of New Wave," says Govedarica. Entrance to both evenings is free, and will be held between the churches in the Old Town in Budva.
Govedarica: There is a new wave in Montenegrin cinematography
Speaking about the new generation of Montenegrin artists, Govedarica is convinced that in domestic cinematography we can definitely talk about the existence of a new wave, and he points out that these are not only artisanally successful films, but also clear authorial poetics.
"Fortunately, they have nothing to do with unpopular epigones like Draško Đurović, who first comes to mind as a 'director' who significantly set back Montenegrin cinema. New names continue where the true greats left off, and lead a dialogue with contemporary filmmakers," he is optimistic. Govedarica, who cites Šahmanović's "Death of Blood" as the best example, shown at last year's New Wave.
When it comes to the independent music scene, he says it's more diverse than before, but there aren't many regionally relevant voices.
"In general, there is an incomparably more lack of involvement in rock, which there is in Serbia. Not to mention the production-fascinating Croatian alter scene, which has excess ideas and a lot of style. In our country, there is more than noticeable anachronism and recycling in musical expression or, quite often, playing incompetence. Bands that sound modern and play dangerous, in the full sense of the word, can be counted on the fingers of one hand," Govedarica points out.
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