The No Smoking band (Zabranjeno Pušenje in their original Serbian or Croatian language) was born in Sarajevo in 1981 and soon became the most significant musical expression of "New Primitivism", a ...

In a panel discussion at the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF), filmmaker and musician Emir Kusturica shared his views on the factors that create the crucial link between film and music.

The band’s name is the No Smoking Orchestra and it is fronted by the outspoken Kusturica, who is also a two-time Palme d’Or-winning independent filmmaker. And tonight the orchestra’s turbocharged ...

MOSCOW, November 5. /TASS correspondent Polina Bogomolova/. Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica has officially announced the end of his musical career, revealing that his last concerts took place two ...

He has an impressive string of internationally acclaimed films to his name, he's an accomplished bass guitarist and he lives in the village he built and designed for his film "Life is a Miracle". On ...

As anyone who has seen the films of Bosnian auteur Emir Kusturica knows, the director/musician and his No Smoking Orchestra make some of the world’s wildest, most joyous and most unrestrained music.

I've been invited to join a pre-gig ritual, in which we put our hands together in a circle and raise and lower them. "Rock and roll!" shouts the guitarist, who is dressed in a Dracula cape and top hat ...