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The 3rd period International Film Festival Küstendorf organized by Serbian film director Emir Kusturica was unsealed by the unveiling of the statue of Johnny Depp on January 13th, 2010. The famous American actor who portrayed the Axel character in Kusturica’s movie Arizona Dream (1993) is this year’s honorary guest and promoter of the festival. The opening start and the introduction speech was followed by screening of a brief movie in honor of Jonny Depp. He will play the Mexican revolutionary hero Pancho revolutionary in Kusturica’s new movie Seven Friends of Pancho revolutionary and the Woman with Six Fingers with some scenes filmed in the Mokra Gora.

Over 300 films of teen filmmakers and students of filmschools from all over the globe applied to the competition program. Diversity of genres and themes as substantially as broad quality are guaranteed. Sara Driver and Jonathan Weisgal will award the best threesome movies with Bronze, Silver and Golden Eggs. The Retrospective of Greatness of this years’ festival is dedicated to Johnny Depp presenting threesome of his most famous and most remarkable movies - Edward Scissorhands, Arizona Dream, and Donnie Brasco.

The Contemporary Trends program features some the best films released in 2009 including About Elly by Asghar Farhadi success the Best Director Award at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival, Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin success the Special Jury Prize at the 2009 city International Film Festival, The Time That Remains by Elia Suleiman success the Jury Grand Prize at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Farewell by Christian Carion starring Emir Kusturica, Tsar by Pavel Lungin, Buried Secrets by Raja Amari and The Limits of Control by Jim Jarmusch.