Beograd
Festival rush in September
September will be the month of festivals in Belgrade this year: Fest, Bitef, March Festival, "Seven Magnificent"... Unless the City Assembly decides that some of them will take a break this year
Film
Eurasian Film Academy, a new type of cooperation with Russia
The Eurasian Academy of Cinematographic Art platform was presented in Moscow, in which Serbia is among more than 20 countries.
Student avant-garde
April meetings in the blocked SKC: Is this the best exhibition in town?
The "Vremena" reporter was hosted by the students who realized the "April Meetings" in the blocked Student Cultural Center in Bograd. They filled the entire SKC with works and performances - and even the toilet
Promo
The Goblins warm up for Billy Idol on July 9 at Kalemegdan
Punk-rock legends Goblini will perform on July 9 in Donji Grad on Kalemegdan as the opening act for world star Billy Idol, at a big Belgrade concert organized by the production company Long Play
Interview: Saša Ilić, writer
No story of resistance is a story of defeat
A characteristic of each of the narrative streams is learning about different forms of resistance. That's why I wrote the novel under a working title Resistance, although I knew I wouldn't publish it under that title. Over time, I realized that there is a common denominator between that working title and the place where the action takes place - the mountain Rtanj, two letters that remind us of the chemical element that the heroes of my novel are fighting for. And that is the "Cape", which, in addition to denoting the protruding free part of the land, is also a symbol for Freedom - a critical mineral that we desperately lack.
Jubilees: Forty years since the album Party breakers (Jugoton, 1985)
They invented a different reality
The forty years that have passed since the release of probably the most important garage blues-rock release in this area makes us think about the far-reaching importance of the "Partibrejkers" group. If you were crazy and brave enough, that is, if you even existed in the early eighties - you couldn't stay the same after listening to their first record. Today we would say that the sound delivered on it was pure punk with attitude, but also with the taste, smell and sensuality of the city of Belgrade from that long ago in 1985. And that of at least a billion decibels. It was impossible to go further than that. And you shouldn't
In memoriam: Ljubomir Simović (1935–2025)
A man who knew how to understand
TV Maniac
Silence on the streets... and then noise!
"Masts", Try a naked man, Excellent hamster, 2024
We never looked retro, but the way people who are not ready to humiliate themselves look. Who is to blame for the enslaved majority who humiliate themselves by following seasonal trends?
Attendances
The Tarantino phenomenon
Comic Django is a vivid, dynamic and brutal story that elaborates on characters and situations only hinted at in the film. The plot has been expanded with several new narrative decorations, which contributes to the relief, and the development of Broomhilda's fate, which in the comic book adaptation is a kind of flywheel of the plot, is particularly noteworthy.
Bitef and the City Assembly
Svetozar Cvetković: We will make a decision about Bitef that we will not be ashamed of
The city assembly did not respond to the proposal of the Bitef Board that Nikita Milivojević, the previous artistic director of the festival, continue the work he had started, and he wrote a letter thanking him for the offer. Svetozar Cvetković, chairman of the Board, believes that a solution will be reached after all
Promo
The world hit musical of the London West End "The Simon & Garfunkel Story" in the Sava Center
The international visual and stage spectacle "The Simon & Garfunkel Story" will arrive in Belgrade's Sava Center on May 10, 2025, organized by the production companies Long Play and Promoter Syndicate
Recommendation
Two books to think about theatre
The two latest books by Svetislav Jovanov deal with theater theory, and are not meant to pass the time. They are for those who need theater, who think about it
Jubilee
SANU: The year of Đura Daničić, who was the first in many areas
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Đura Daničić, one of the greatest philologists and linguists among Serbs, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts declared 2025 the Year of Đura Daničić
Festival
Beldocs: It doesn't depend on anyone
This year, Beldocs will be held as always, in May, unlike other festivals in Belgrade, which got some new dates.
Reality of fiction
Reading for lockdown days: "Mr. President" and other bedtime books
The edition "Freedom begins between covers" published by "Laguna" seems to have been compiled for today's Serbian "Troublesome Time" of blockades and protests.
Petition
National Library: Petition to save five million books
The three-story underground garage in Skerlićeva Street is 10 meters from the depot of the National Library of Serbia, warns the Plenum of this institution and tries to save the entire written treasure of Serbia with a petition
Inheritance
The proposal to revoke the protection status of the General Staff submitted in secret?
Goran Vasić, the acting director of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, sent without the knowledge of the employees a proposal to revoke the status of a cultural monument for the General Staff complex, they claim, and that is why they are asking those who put him in that place, the Government of Serbia, to replace him
Budget for culture
Will Zrenjanin lose its status as Capital of Culture?
The mayor of Zrenjanin canceled the competition for funding projects during the year of the Capital of Culture. What does that actually mean?
Exhibition
"Partibrejkers" - part of rock and roll mythology
The exhibition "Partibrejkers - be yourself", on the occasion of 40 years since the release of the first album of this famous band, tells the story of Canet, Anton, Ljuba and Manzanera, who defined rock and roll in the Yugoslav regions
Interview: Feđa Štukan, writer, actor, musician
People compete in the discipline "whose lie is truer"
A lie is a powerful tool, you can achieve anything with it. But the truth is also powerful. If you want to accept the truth, then you can't do it partially, you have to decide whether you want to know and accept the whole truth and live according to it, or you have to persist in lies that can comfort you better. Red or blue pill
Repeated editions
Why read Eisenstein (again)?
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, Installation of attractions - Film essays, translated by Branko Vučićević, Olga Vlatković, Gustav Gavrin and Dušan Stojanović Ultimatum and Film Center of Serbia, Belgrade 2025
In memoriam: Philip David (1940–2025)
A man in dark times
If one should single out the qualities that adorned him and for which I will remember him, then they are authentic intellectual openness and curiosity, which, as a rule, begins to evaporate in most people over time, and which did not leave Filipa until the last hour.
In memoriam: Mario Vargas Llosa (1936–2025)
The poetics of dissent and other subversions
Interview: Marko Tomaš, poet
Living for imperfections
People who build a long-term relationship do not always follow the same path. Along the way, they diverge, there is a misunderstanding and a discrepancy in expectations. Love, therefore, changes aggregate states, but if it persists, if people are ready to invest and fight for the relationship, then we can call it real love
Culture and the City
BITEF and FEST: Waiting for the City Assembly
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 premiere
The musical "Balkan Express" as a tribute to the cult film
Announced last year, the premiere of the musical "Balkan Express", otherwise the central event of the 75th anniversary of the Theater in Terazije, will take place at the end of April. The reason for the delay is the budget
