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Tanja Šuković, one of the authors of the documentary about the metropolitan of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) Amfilohije Radović “Witness of the love of God”, stated that removing this film from the program of the festival “Press Knight” in Zrenjanin is an act of censorship .
She assessed that the film represents “an unbearable confrontation of the Serbian Orthodox Church and its ideological workers with a compromised past.”
“We sincerely regret that the television festival is the victim of clerical-fascist censorship. We sincerely regret that the organizers, for the sake of the ministry’s donation of 400,000 dinars, are willing to lie openly,” Tanja Sukovic told the Autonomy de Novi portal Sad.
The film “Witness to God’s love” was produced by Montenegro Television.
He rejected allegations in the announcement by the Ministry of Culture and Information that festival selector Igor Aleksić said the film did not pass the official selection and showed a notice sent by the organizers a few days ago, which read: “Dear, we inform you that your work is in official selection … “.
He also claimed that the organizers removed the film from the festival’s official website. “The film passed the selection. Finally, they informed us. Apart from clumsily removing traces, they delete messages from the viber and the official website. Bad weather makes us be very careful. However, we are journalists from the documentary program. We keep written and other prints, “said Tanja Šuković.
He added that everything shown in the film was “credibly and absolutely professionally displayed.” “It is true that it is harmful to Amfilohije, the Serbian Orthodox Church and others who share their views against civilization, precisely because it is true and it destroys the manipulative portrayal of this church dignitary as a conciliator and philanthropist,” said Tanja Sukovic, who filmed the movie with Snezana Rakonjac. .
He added that he was able to understand the organizers of the festival, stating that he knew from his own experience “what dirty propaganda machine was activated to defend the character of Amfilohije and the week of his authentic declarations of hatred and incitement against everything that is not in the line of its militant Greater Serbia “.
“I can avoid the screening of the film, but it is not possible to hide the truth about the role of Amfilohije Radovic and the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Yugoslav tragedy of the 1990s and the attempt to Serbize Montenegrins, culminating in Montenegro since early this year, “said Tanja Sukovic.
The Ministry of Culture and Information announced today that the film “Witness to God’s love”, which it said shows Amfilohije’s public statements and activities “in a controversial way”, will not be screened at the “Press Knight” festival, because ” passed the selection “. It is stated that the festival did receive 400,000 dinars in the ministry’s contest, but that “in the project documentation, the applicant did not submit or was forced to submit a list of films to be broadcast, nor, consequently, the commission he was able to know what specific works are found. ” After the reaction of the public and after inspecting the film, the Ministry of Culture and Information understands that the work in question can generate controversy and that thanks to the way it selects and presents the content, it can induce politically colored conclusions and thus harm the Metropolitan Amfilohije and the Metropolitan of Montenegro and Serbia. the church, “the statement said.
It is added that precisely because of the strong reactions of the work of the domestic public, “the decision of the organizers and selectors not to include this work in the official program of the festival is encouraging.”
The Oslobodjenje movement, led by Mladjan Djordjevic, vice president of the secretary general of the Assembly of the Peoples of Eurasia and former adviser to the president of Serbia Boris Tadic, asked the organizers of the festival “Press Knight” not to show the documentary “Witness of love of God”.
“To show this brochure on video, created from the propaganda needs of the outgoing ruling regime in Montenegro, and within the festival would be a pure scandal, as it is a clumsily composed anti-Serbian and anti-church story about the ‘evil’ Metropolitan Amfolohi, “the statement said. movement.
They assessed that it was a “malicious collage about the most prominent person in the Serbian Orthodox Church at the moment” and added that showing such a film would be “a shame and a political fault against a nearby neighboring country.”
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