For the 6th consecutive year, Divan Film Festival in Cetate is getting ready to gather filmmakers, scholars, actors, producers and film enthusiasts from all corners of the Balkans. 

altcine and the online festival for Balkan shorts, altcineAction! Film Festival will again be there, marking the two festivals third collaboration with the screening of 17 short films, all of them shown on altcineAction!΄s 2014 edition.

This year, Divan is launching a collaboration with the city of Craiova, which will host two evenings of open air screenings, while, the last two days of the festival are dedicated to the visitors of the area, with a second screening of some of the program΄s films.

With no competition nor an awards ceremony and, apart from screening the region΄s best feature, short and documentary films, every August this unique festival gathers a number of academics around an international scientific symposium with a specific theme covering different aspects of the Balkans΄ past and present. This year΄s theme is Roads and Crossroads in the Balkans, and, since the festival itself takes place on the Danube΄s riverbanks, where Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria meet, the screenings and the symposium are promising a productive as well as entertaining week.

The scholars participating are old acquaintances of the festival, like Lydia Papadimitriou, Gergana Doncheva, Magda Mihăilescu, Marilena Ilieșiu, Angelo Mitchievici, Ana Grgić, Dana Duma and Mihai Fulge, all of them presenting papers which engage their colleagues and the audience into conversations and debates often last until the early morning hours.

Guests will share their common cultural and culinary legacies over dinner. Cetate cultural port΄s host is poet Mircea Dinescu, a successive chef also, making the annual parallel focus on the Balkan cuisine a significant ingredient of the festival΄s marvellous fuse of films screenings, debates on cultural tendencies and the best of the region΄s foods a unique experience, accompanied by Marian Tutui΄s (Divan΄s artisitc director) playful presentations of the open-air screenings.

Talking about the screenings, the 6th edition of the festival has included some of the region΄s most interesting films, all of them, one way or another, taking the “Roads and Crossroads in the Balkans”. 

The Tour by Goran Marković (Serbia/Bosnia-Hertzegovina/Croatia, 2008)

The Way by Yilmaz Gűney & Şerif Gören (Turkey/Switzerland/France, 1982)

Little England by Pantelis Voulgaris (Greece, 2013) - with the partcipation of actor Andreas Konstantinou

Picture Postcards with Wild Flowers by Andrei Blaier (Romania, 1975)

Brides by Pantelis Voulgaris (Greece, 2004)

The Priest΄s Children by Vinko Brešan (Croatia/Serbia, 2013)

The Forest by Siniša Dragin (Romania/Serbia, 2014)

Aliyah Dada by Oana Giurgiu (Romania, 2014)

Toto and His Sisters by Alexandru Nanău (Romania, 2014)

Soul Food Stories by Tonislav Hristov (Bulgaria/Finland, 2013)

There Is Nothing in this World by Andreea Vălean (Romania, 2015, 11΄)

Jesus Stopped at Gyzi by Amerissa Basta (Greece, 2013, 11΄)

Linda by Antonia Milcheva (Bulgaria, 2012, 12΄)

Penguins by Dimitris Zahos (Greece, 2012, 14΄)

Amel by More Raca (Kosovo*, 2012, 13΄)

Half-Board Heaven by Giorgos Ktistakis (Greece, 2012, 11΄)

Botev is an Idiot by Deyan Bararev (Bulgaria, 2012, 9΄)

A selection of altcineAction! 2014 by critic Tara Karajica 

The Breakfast by Dimitris Ampatzis (Greece, 2014, 7΄)

Actually by Konstantinos Fragkoulis (Greece, 2013, 6΄)

Flirting by Marija Rodić (Serbia, 2012, 10΄)

Last Variation by Irina Decernić (Serbia, 2014, 15΄)

The Last Attempt by Lyubo Yonchev (Bulgaria, 2014, 10΄)

My Special K by Stevi Panagiotaki (Greece, 2014, 7΄)

Miramare by Michaela Muller (Croatia/Switzerland, 2009, 8΄)

Boreas by Belma Bas (Turkey, 2006, 13΄)

Moonless Summer by Stefan Ivancić (Serbia, 2014, 30΄)

Keadas by Maria Ligkou (Greece, 2014, 15΄)

Felony by Thanos Kermitsis (Greece, 2014, 5΄)

Evergreen by Ifigeneia Kotsoni (Greece, 2012, 14΄)

Them by Darko Štante (Slovenia, 2014, 14΄)

Awakening by Yana Lekarska (Bulgaria, 2013, 8΄)

Short films from Serbia and Romania 

Classmates by Milan Smiljanić (Serbia, 2014, 30΄)

Lucky by Alexandra Botău (Romania, 2014, 9΄)

Evening with Radio by Miloš Tomić (Serbia, 2015, 10΄)

Way of the Danube by Sabin Dorohoi (Romania, 2014, 13΄)

Rabbit Meat by Gabriel Achim (Romania, 2014, 15΄)

Sthorzina by Radu Mihai (Romania/Serbia, 2014, 24΄)

Hope for the Wolf by Branko Radaković (Serbia, 2013, 7΄)

10 Ore by Laura Maria Muşat (Romania/UK, 2015, 20΄)

Ela, Panda and Madame by Andrei Răutu (Romania, 2013, 27΄)

The Revelation of the Beast by Thanassis Bourliaskos (Greece, 2015, 17΄) - with the participation of director Thanassis Bourliaskos

Ginka by Antonia Milcheva (Bulgaria, 2014, 13΄) - with the participation of director Antonia Milcheva

The Bulgarian is Gallant by Iulian Minkov (Bulgaria, 1998, 5΄)

Parking by Ivaylo Minov (Bulgaria/UK, 2014, 19΄)

Lighthouse Woman by Ana Kitanova (Bulgaria, 2014, 22΄)