The changes to the rules of the city's cultural manifestations, which were announced by the City Assembly back in March, are unlikely to be implemented. Will there be time to implement them until September when Bitef and Fest start, that is, will they be held at all
The Assembly of the City of Belgrade appointed board members for the seven main festivals in the city. Dušan Kovačević heads the Fest Board
After the postponement of the traditional Fest, students in the blockade decided to hold their own film festival - Blockade Fest. What did the students prepare for the visitors of the festival from March 9 to 16
The Fest international film festival has been postponed, and this March the students are organizing a blockingFEST
"Vreme" has learned that, like the Fest, this year's March Festival will not be able to take place as scheduled. The reason is the same: the City Assembly did not do its part
"I don't understand who needed it", comments the founder of "Seven Magnificent" Zoran Popović on the decision to hold the Fest at the same time as the European Feature Documentary Film Festival
The director of the Film Center of Serbia (FCS) Ivan Karl reacted to the comment "Postponing the Fest: Making personnel dice" by the journalist and editor of the weekly "Vreme" Sonja Ćirić. We publish his response in full
The Fest board has decided that the festival will no longer be held in February but in September. One gets the impression that the solution of this secondary problem is actually just an announcement of the solution of the essential one
Apart from Bitef, this year Belgrade will host another international festival in September - Festa. By the decision of the Board of this festival, the traditional February term of the Festa was abolished
About twenty days until the traditional date for the start of the Fest, the new program selector is not known, and therefore neither is the program. It is only known that the Fest will be postponed due to security reasons
Video library will first of all be remembered as an interesting and brave attempt to offer something different within the framework of Serbian cinema, although at the same time as a film that failed to fully develop the considerable potential it had
The 52nd Fest ended with the presentation of awards and the screening of the film "The Russian Consul", dedicated to Žarko Laušević. The best film is the Russian "Master"
The most important film festival in Serbia starts on Friday, and its selector Jugoslav Pantelić tells "Vreme" that the selection is colorful. He particularly emphasizes the fact that about half of the films were purchased for the festival
Žarko Laušević's last film "The Russian Consul" closes this year's Fest. Apart from this film, there are three more domestic productions on the program
October is a better time for the Fest, the end of the summer should be used for the national festival, and it is better to have fewer film competitions so that the films get more initial capital, announced Ivan Karl
Aleksandar Šapić, visiting the renovated "Dadov" today, announced the independence of the Fest. He explained it by the need for Belgrade to have a better festival than Sarajevo. He also announced that Serbian films and Serbian actors will be on the program of such a Fest
"Mouth full of earth" by Purisa Đorđević will close this year's FEST. Jugoslav Pantelić evaluates this film as the biggest surprise of the entire program, which contains 113 films, of which 107 are premieres.
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
The Ukrainian prosecutor's office condemned the Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov for threatening the sovereignty of that country. Mikhalkov is surprised, and will not come to the Fest
Environmental protests draw attention to certain topics and issues, and they have succeeded in doing so. But protests are not in themselves the solution to the problem. They should be solved systematically, with laws and procedures, and, most importantly, by respecting the procedures, and we have traditionally, like some courage, always lacked that. Actors and celebrities can draw attention to certain topics and raise questions that may then lead to an awakening or a shift in consciousness. But they cannot be the saviors of the people or the messiah
Feelings of threat, injustice, hatred and xenophobia are encouraged for the sake of the government's interests, so we dig our own trenches more and more. I fear that it leads to escalation and violence
