[ Film Festivals ]

Two exciting festivals are going to be held in Belgrade: From February 22^nd – March 2^nd, 2008 the 36^th Belgrade International Film Festival – FEST (with the motto: Go for FEST), which is one of the most important film festivals in the South-Eastern Europe, and from 25^th – 30^th March, 2008 the Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival (this years motto: ALL good things…), which is an annual competitive film festival of works of art in the field of documentary and short film, recorded in both film and video (electronic) technology.

FEST was established as non-competitive film festival in 1971. Now in its 36^th year, the event was originally designed to combat cultural isolation and xenophobia in the art world and to connect local Eastern European Cinema with the international film scene.

FEST presents the best new feature films of the previous years and the selection is based on film programs of the world’s distinguished film festivals: Cannes, Toronto, Venice, Pusan, Karlovy Vary etc. It will screen more than 75 films from all over the world this year. Official premiere programs will consist of several program entities: "Horizons", "Discoveries", "Facts and Puzzles", a special program of contemporary Russian film and, for the third consecutive year – a competition segment of the Festival comprising a program of eight films – "Europe out of Europe", as well as the business part of the Festival – "B2B" (Belgrade to Business).

• National Competition (National Competition has four categories: Documentary film, Animated film, Short film and Experimental film)
• International Competition and
• Special programs (non-competitive programs, retrospectives, exhibitions, seminars, workshop).