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Jolie became honorary citizen of Sarajevo
US superstar Angelina Jolie, whose recent directorial debut dealt with the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, arrived on Saturday as a special guest of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Jolie is to be made an honorary citizen of Sarajevo during her stay, an honour first announced in April, for her efforts in “keeping the truth about wartime events in Sarajevo and Bosnia-Hercegovina alive”. The award is given by the Sarajevo county every year to a foreign national who promotes humanity, democracy and tolerance. Jolie’s film “In the Land of Blood and Honey” -- shot in 2010 with several actors from the former Yugoslavia, and
premiered in 2011 -- dealt with the issues of war crimes. While the project initially sparked concern in Bosnia, once it was shown, most victims’ groups welcomed it as objective and sincere. Jolie arrived without Brad Pitt but with at least three of their children on board a private plane at Sarajevo’s airport around 1400 GMT, an AFP photographer said. She attended a workshop for young film artists from 13 countries, held on
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A handout picture provided on June 29, 2012 by the 34th Moscow International Film Festival shows a film strip from the first commercial Soviet 3D movie, “Concert” or “Land of Youth”, shown in 1941, a few months before the Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
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the sidelines of the 18th Sarajevo Film Festival, organisers said. “The Sarajevo Film Festival is such an important event to focus the world’s attention on the art, the music and the immense talent in the region,” Jolie was quoted as saying in a statement issued by organisers. Jolie spoke about her experiences of numerous visits to conflict or povertystricken areas in her role as UNHCR goodwill ambassador. The Sarajevo Film Festival -- born as an act of resistance when the Bosnian capital was under siege during the 19921995 war -- has has grown to be one of the largest in Europe.
3D films showed in Rusia on 40s
As 3D cinema enjoys a revival with Hollywood blockbusters, an unexpected retrospective in Moscow reveals the Soviet Union began entertaining its citizens with homegrown 3D films as early as the 1940s. The films may lack the exotic plots of Hollywood 3D films such as James Cameron’s 2009 “Avatar” and Ridley Scott’s current release “Prometheus” but are of astonishing technical quality and sophistication. In a colour film called “In the Avenues of the Park,” a young woman in a print dress stretches her hand holding a rose towards the viewer, while young men in baggy trousers stroll and schoolboys in caps run about. The crystal-clear film shows Moscow’s Gorky Park in 1952, a year before Stalin died, yet the 3D technology similar to that now filling multiplexes makes it feel eerily current. “3D before our era,” Kommersant headlined a story on the films, which were shown in a special programme at the Moscow International Film Festival. The programme of films have been restored and digitised by two enthusiasts, Nikolai Mayorov and Nikolai Kotovsky. “We have all got used to hearing various legends that 3D cinema came to us from the United States,” Mayorov told an audience at the festival. “In fact, it came there from Russia.” Surprisingly, the first showing of a 3D film in Russia was in 1911, several years before the first one in the United States. The first commercial Soviet 3D film was “Concert” or “Land of Youth”, first shown in 1941, a few months before the Soviet Union joined World War II. A tour de force showing off scenes from ocean waves to a ball in around 40 minutes, it was designed for viewing without glasses. Viewers watched the film through a wire grid that meant the left and right eye saw two different images at the same time, creating an illusion of depth. The system called stereo cinema was created by a Soviet inventor called Semyon Ivanov. The “Concert” film was mainly black-and-white but had sections where it burst into colour -- a technique also used in Hollywood for 1939 hit “The Wizard of Oz” -- causing a sensation at the time.
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Accident of underground project on Jalan Sulawesi
Buried by avalanche, two workers killed Bali Post
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DENPASAR - Avalanche disaster occurred in the underground parking project on Jalan Sulawesi Denpasar on Saturday (Jul 7). Three workers who were installing stones and blocks on the east side of the project, exactly on the edge of Jalan Sulawesi, were buried by the avalanche.
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Avalanche disaster occurred in the underground parking project on Jalan Sulawesi Denpasar on Saturday (Jul 7).
According to one of the witnesses, Cahyono, it came to pass around 3:30 p.m. local time. At that time, some workers were installing stone, while others were installing blocks. Unexpectedly, the edge dredged up a few days before suddenly avalanched and hit three workers. “The edge is about 3 meters high. Previously, there were no signs if the edge will avalanche. Before the victims worked there, I happened to work there a few days ago,” he explained. Once the avalanche occurred, Cahyono and some other workers tried to rescue with heavy equipment at the site. “Before the assistance arrived, we immediately evacuate them with the equipment existing around us. Unfortunately, when we could evacuate, Sanan was found dead and then immediately taken to Wangaya Hospital,” he explained. Meanwhile, the two other victims namely Satir and Dadang were found in critical condition and immediately rushed to Sanglah Hospital. Based on latest information, Satir could not be saved or died. Continued on page 6
Merkel to make first official trip to Indonesia Agence France-Presse
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will make her first official visit to Indonesia next week for talks with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and business leaders, her spokesman said. Steffen Seibert told a regular briefing that the leader of Europe’s top economy would embark on the brief trip Monday and return to
Berlin Wednesday, as the eurozone debt crisis rumbles on. “She will be welcomed to Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world, on Tuesday by President Yudhoyono with military honours,” he said. “Afterwards, they will hold talks on bilateral, regional and global issues.” Merkel, who took office in 2005, will meet business leaders, reporters
and rights activists, as well as the chief justice of the constitutional court. She is also to visit the site of the country’s tsunami early-warning system, which was built with German assistance, as well as a Protestant church and a mosque. Government sources described Indonesia as a comparably stable developing country with robust prospects but expressed concerns about frequent human rights violations in the resources-rich province
of West Papua. Merkel aims to take up issues of regional security such as the fight against piracy in the Strait of Malacca linking the Indian Ocean with the Pacific, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. However “talks on arms deals are not on the agenda,” a senior Merkel aide said, adding that no specific trade pacts or business contracts were expected to be signed either.
Seibert said that there were no plans for Merkel to hold talks with visiting International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, who will be in Jakarta on July 8-10. Bilateral trade relations have developed briskly in recent years with Germany exporting 3.4 billion euros ($4.2 billion) in goods and services to Indonesia in 2011. Imports from the country were valued at 3.3 billion euros.