The publishing house "Archipelag" organizes the Belgrade Festival of European Literature and, in this time of cultural poverty, asks - are culture and literature subversive?
In the period of stagnation and production and programs in culture, Belgrade is getting a new festival - the Balkan festival of film directing. "Directing is not just a craft process, but an area of authorial freedom and responsibility," says Darko Bajić, one of the founders.
This year, Beldocs will be held as always, in May, unlike other festivals in Belgrade, which got some new dates.
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
On Thursday (March 6), the big Irish festival in Belgrade starts, which brings the great world screenwriter and director Neil Jordan as a guest.
Social circumstances, responsibility towards the current moment and a sense of community are the reasons why the Cultural Center in Jagodina decided to look for another date for the March edition of "Comedy Days"
Wherever you were in the city, everything would remind you that the Berlinale was in progress and to join it - you couldn't see where the city started and where the Festival started
"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
And then, on November 1, right before the beginning of the festival, the canopy fell at the Railway Station in Novi Sad. Fourteen people died, and the question of where truth and justice live took on a completely, completely different meaning
The jubilee 20th "Free Zone" is opened by two Cannes winners. For next year, the organizers of this engaging film festival are announcing a change
Ksenija Radulović:
Opening borders - professional Bitef reception in Serbia;
Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, 2023.
NAFFIT, the first Serbian National Film and Television Festival, was founded. It will be in Zlatibor, as Minister Selaković said - at "three borders and a crossroads of cultures", and according to the idea of director Gaga Antonijević
On Friday, the "Magnificent 7" festival begins for the twentieth time. It will show feature-length European documentaries about the pursuit of something that is a dream
In the atrium of the Church of the Holy Savior in Prizren, this weekend, European performers of medieval music will come to the "Medimus" festival, which was founded in honor of Dragan Prizren
Director Andrej Nosov opened this year's Festival of Performing Arts and Society Norderson in the Netherlands, and his play "A Brief History of Burgers and Other Stories" is shown in the Main Competition Program for five days
Darko Bajić is no longer the artistic director of the LIFFE festival, but that's why the mayor will be on the red carpet, not the filmmakers. The SNS and SPS committee of the Niš festival judged that the film "Next to me" by Stevan Filipović should not participate. The latest news about those two festivals is another contribution to the story of freedom in Serbia
The European film festival will still be held this year, although no one has yet paid for it, and the Ministry of Culture has not even announced a competition for co-financing. There are 150 films on the program
The fourth Belgrade Mosaic Festival is underway. Old mosaics were mostly used in architecture, and today there are no customers for those large formats. That's why smaller pictures are made, new technologies are used, but the working principle remains the same. The most important is the expressive moment
Everything is ready for tomorrow's start of EXIT, one of the biggest music festivals in the world, there are hardly any empty rooms in Novi Sad, and the organizers expect more than 200.000 visitors.
Ksenija Đurović, part of the selection team of the Bitef festival, explains that a combination of lucky circumstances helped them bring the oldest theater in the world to Belgrade. Apart from Comedie Française, this year will also see the use of the drug GHB for the first time
The music festival Arsenal Fest starts tomorrow with a concert by Hollywood superstar Keanu Reeves and the band Dogstar. In Kragujevac, Reeves will also sign BRZRKR, the most expensive and best-selling comic, of which he is the co-writer.
Tomorrow begins the Days of Contemporary Dance, a festival that arose out of the desire to develop this art in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the help of colleagues from Belgrade.
Tomorrow, "Topli Film" will open the Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival, which this year presents 13 premieres in 100 program units.
Mohammad Rasulof, an award-winning Iranian director, has been sentenced to eight years in prison, flogging and confiscation of his property because his film "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" will be screened at the Cannes festival next week. Rasuloff has been fined for films at European festivals before, and he is not the only one
The series "Saber", one of the eight series from around the world that were selected for the competition program of the festival in Cannes, won a high award
With its own funds, and on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the death of the long-term manager of "Atelje 212" Ljubomir Draškić, this theater is renovating the "Mucijevi dani" festival, which was canceled because the City had no money
Archiving dance art, and bringing together the oldest and youngest generations of dancers and choreographers are the special features of the "Days of Smiljane Mandukić" festival, which the Ministry of Culture believes is not in the public interest.
