At the festival Dièse#6, the project 4 Tuned Cities will be presented as an example of a successful collaboration among 4 independent cultural organisations: Dit’ e Nat’ (Pristina), Balkan Buro (Amsterdam), Kriterion (Sarajevo) and Lokomotiva (Skopje) based on the model of collaborative curating. The audience of the festival will be able to see a specially selected 2 h showcase from the overall 4 Tuned Cities film programme.

The overall 4 Tuned Cities film programme consisted of 36 film titles selected by nine-member international curatorial team. The 4 Tuned Cities film programme showcase will present 7 film titles, additionally selected by Violeta Kachakova and Natasha Dimitrievska.

As part of the 4 Tuned Cities film programme showcase, the following films will be screened at the festival Dièse#6:
BLUE WALL, RED DOORAlban Muja & Yll Citaku/2009/30 min./documentary film/Kosovo
MANITOBANina Spiering & Mirka Duijn/2009/11 min./short fiction/the Netherlands
I SWEAR BY MY BEARD Sebas van den Brink/2009/11 min./documentary film/the Netherlands
RED ENDBethany de Forest & Robin Noorda/2009/15 min./animated film/the Netherlands
ONEVardan Tozija/2009/20 min./short fiction/Macedonia
INSIDEIvan Ivanovski/2009/07:40 min./animated film/Macedonia
MATCHSTICKTony Radevski/2009/12 min./short fiction/Australia and Macedonia
GULIVERZdenko Bašič/2009/14 min./animated film/Croatia

More information about the festival Dièse, you can find on the following link: http://www.festivaldiese.com/.

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4 TUNED CITIES - Independent film and visual art festival resulted from a two-year collaboration between 4 partner organizations and programme selectors: Dit 'e Nat' (Kosovo), Balkan Buro (the Netherlands), Kriterion (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Lokomotiva (Macedonia). In the period between October and December 2010, 4 festivals were organised in 4 cities (Pristina, Amsterdam, Sarajevo and Skopje).
4 TUNED CITIES appeared as a result of the need to create conditions for continuous exchange of information and knowledge for the new artistic and cultural creations in the Balkans and Western Europe, in the domain of independent film and visual arts, whose creator is the young generation of artists, filmmakers and cultural workers.
The main programme of the festival(s) consisted of:
A joint exhibition entitled “Creative Cities, Artistic Towns and Fantastic Village”, which presented the works of young contemporary visual artists from several European cities and
A joint film programme of 36 film titles of young directors from the partner-countries and their cross-border neighbours.
More about the project: http://4tunedcities.org/