The alpine-like Zlatibor region in south-west Serbia offers forested peaks, waterfalls, pretty villages – and a few more eccentric attractions
October 2016
On the Milky Road review – booze, bears and illicit affairs in wartime Bosnia
Two-time Palme d’Or winner Emir Kusturica directs and stars as a milkman who falls for Monica Bellucci’s beautiful fugitive, with typically delirious results
April 2016
Emir Kusturica denies saying Cannes rejected him over Putin
Emir Kusturica: Cannes rejected my film because I support Putin
June 2015
Film blog
Existential cowboys: Slow West isn't the first European journey into US darkness
John Maclean’s new film starring Michael Fassbender follows a long line of artful forays into the pathologies of America, from Wim Wenders to Philip Ridley via honorary European Jim Jarmusch
October 2012
Serbian film director's 'theme park' echoes The Bridge on the Drina
Emir Kusturica builds homage to Ivo Andric novel, triggering controversy in Visegrad, scene of atrocities in Bosnian war
June 2011
Bosnian novelist has town built in his honour
Work of Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić to be commemorated with 17,000-square metre 'Andrićgrad' in the Republika Srpska
May 2011
I was a judge at Cannes
Peter Bradshaw leapt at an invitation to be a judge at this year's Cannes film festival – even though it meant an awkward meeting with a director he'd panned
Cannes film festival 2011: a roundup of the jury prizes
It was the scale, the ambition, the sheer mass of Terrence Malick's The Tree Of Life that captivated its admirers
Cannes 2011, day two in pictures
Cannes 2011: Day one - in pictures
Farewell – review
April 2011
Farewell – review
Director Emir Kusturica turns up as an actor in a satisfying real-life cold war thriller. By Cath Clarke
February 2009
Emir Kusturica wants Javier Bardem for Pancho Villa biopic
The Serbian director's planned dramatisation of the Mexican revolutionary's life is based on James Carlos Blake's 1996 novel, The Friends of Pancho Villa
July 2008
Film blog
The horror of the Bosnian conflict lives on in Serbian cinema
The capture of Radovan Karadzic marks some sort of end in Serbia. But the cinema coming out of the region still bears the scars of conflict
May 2008
Gods and monsters
Film blog
Diego Maradona and Emir Kusturica: a meeting of egos
It's Hand of God v Iron Mike - sporting documentaries are talk of film festival
Film blog
Serbian pride flies high at Banja Luka festival
May 2005
Cannes films not up to scratch, says Jury president
This year's Cannes film festival jury president, Emir Kusturica, said last night that the quality of the competition fell short of what was expected from the annual cinema marathon
