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Culture

01.October 2023 S.Ć.

This year's Bitef is opened by director Boro Drašković

On Wednesday, the 57th Bitef begins with the German play "Children of the Sun", respecting the continuity with the previous concepts of the festival

Interview: Nikita Milivojević, artistic director of Bitef

06.September 2023 Sonja Ciric

Theater is not a hippodrome

"For my taste, so-called current plays often have a kind of superficial didacticism. When I say that, I mean a certain imposition of ideas on the viewer, what he should think and the like. In the theater, I'm not so interested in someone's intelligence, what remains hidden, inferred, is always much more important to me than what is said directly."

Culture

08.June 2023 S.Ć.

New Bitef: Continuity with the previous one is highlighted

Nikita Milivojević, the new artistic director, and his selection team have chosen nine plays which, judging by the first information, continue to boldly speak about our present, like the previous Bitefs.

Culture

27.April 2023. Sonja Ciric

Ksenija Đurović: We need Bitef for everyone, but at the level of high culture

Brave and unscrupulous Bitef, which will be open to all audiences, is the guideline that the new artistic director Nikita Milivojević and his team of selectors Ksenija Đurović and Tijana Grumić will try to implement in the following programs of this festival.

Beograd

25.February 2023. Sonja Ciric

New rules for Bitef, Fest, Bemus and the like: The influence of politics on culture and by law

Thanks to the new rules of the City Assembly, the government has the opportunity to influence the artistic and programming conception of 14 cultural manifestations of importance for Belgrade: it chooses a selector and appoints the president of the manifestation's board from among its own ranks. The new president of the Bitef Festival Committee is the Secretary of Culture of the City. For now, Bitef is working as if nothing happened, and they expect that it won't

Culture

22.February 2023. S.Ć.

Change in Bitef: A sign of the government's attitude towards professional individuals

Public reactions regarding the appointment of Nikita Milivojević as the new artistic director of Bitef are negative, but not because of this well-known director who succeeded Ivan Medenica, but because of the Secretariat for Culture of the city, which is the reason for Medenica's departure

Interview

18.February 2023. Sonja Ciric

Ivan Medenica: I will not harm Bitef by working illegally

"A situation has arisen in which the city secretary is directly pushing me to break the law, to falsely present myself to foreign partners as the artistic director of Bitef. I didn't agree to that"

Society

05.February 2023. Sonja Ciric

Young people about Yugoslavia: Paradoxes that are not paid attention to, but are present

In the Youth Center, a cycle of debates begins on the country from which the current Serbia originated, where young researchers, unencumbered by either Yugoslavia or the war in which it disappeared, will analyze its good and bad sides. It is expected that we will all learn something in the end

Interview

05.July 2022 Sonja Ciric

Ivan Medenica: We heroes of our work

"Problems related to working conditions, workers' rights, new forms of exploitation are insufficiently discussed both locally and globally, unions are marginalized. In this regard, Bitef is again the vanguard"

In memoriam

03.July 2022 Sonja Ciric

Peter Brook has passed away: When I hear Bitef...

He was one of the world's greatest theater directors. Bitef's audience loved him, and so did Bitef. He was in Belgrade for the first time in 1957