The Auteur Film Festival, one of the most important cultural events in Serbia, this year will be held the 21st time from 27 November to 5 December. 

The cult film festival will present films which bring new trends in the auteur film circuit, with its Main Program presents the best works of art films from around the world and winners of prestigious international film festivals consisting  of 22 works, including the winner in the last Venice Film Fest From Afar by Lorenzo Vigas from Venezuela, Cannes 2015 Grand Jury winner Son of Saul by Lazlo Nemes, and many more internationally awarded films.

Main Program will feature 6 titles from the region:

The Treasure by Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania/France, 2015)

Aferim! by Radu Jude (Romania/Bulgaria/Czech Republic, 2015)

Chevalier by Athina Rachel Tsangari (Greece, 2015)

Our Everyday Life by Ines Tanovic (Bosnia-Herzegovina/Croatia/Slovenia, 2015)

Family by Sasa Radojevic (Serbia, 2015)

Frenzy by Emin Alper (Turkey/France, 2015)

Auteur Film Festival΄s Side Program includes 3 sections. Bande À Part @en (selected by filmmaker Vladimir Perisic) will present 10 feature, documentaries and shorts, with themes varying from social and tribal conflicts to modern version of classic stories, like Miguel Gomez΄ Arabian Nights. A film worth mentioning in this section is Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi΄s Balkan Inventory (Italy, 2000) a surreal portrait of life in the Balkans in the ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s that uses found footage through slow-motion re-photography and selective image framing.  

Brave Balkans, the other section of the Side Program, includes several feature and shorts from the region:

The Second Game by Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania, 2014)

One Day In Sarajevo by Jasmila Zbanic ( Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2015)

Sisysphus K. by Filip Gajic (Serbia, 2015)

The Waiting Room by Igor Drljaca (Canada, 2015)

Turn Off The Lights by Ivana Mladenovic (Romania, 2012)

Washingtonia by Konstantina Kotzamani (Greece, 2015, 24΄)

A Matter Of Will by Dusan Kasalica (Montenegro, 2015, 24΄)

No Wolf Has A House by Hana Jusic (Croatia, 2015, 25΄)

Abdul & Hamza by Marko Grba Singh (Serbia, 2015, 49΄)

Belladonna by Dubravka Turic (Croatia, 2015, 18΄)

Archipels, Granites Dénudés by Daphné Hérétakis (France/Greece, 2015, 25΄)

Mala moja iz Bosanske Krupe by Purisa Djordjevic (Serbia, 2015, 25΄)

With Many Things To Come by Jelena Gavrilovic (Serbia, 2015, 22΄)

Tuesday by Ziya Demirel (Turkey, 2015, 12΄)

Picnic by Jure Pavlovic (Croatia, 2015, 13΄)

Our Body by Dane Komljen (Bosnia-Herzegovina/Germany/Serbia, 2015, 15΄)

Ramona by Andrei Cretulescu (Romania, 2015, 20΄)

Dust by Maja Milos (Serbia, 2008, 20΄)

Backyards by Ivan Salatic (Montenegro, 2015, 20΄)

The Reflection Of Power by Mihai Grecu (France, 2015, 9΄)

Stairless by Marko Novakovic (Serbia, 2015) will be presented at the Special Screening section of Auteur Film Festival΄s Side Program.

The Retrospectives (Debutrants - History Of The Auter Films) secton has included the first works by Claude Chabrol, Roman Polanski, Jiri Menzel, Terrence Malick, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, as wel as Ivica Matic΄s Landscape With A Woman (Yugoslavia, 1989), while the Retrospective on filmmaker Krsto Skanata is screening feature documentaries (Terrorists, 1970 and 12 Months Of Winter, 1983) and a number of his shorts docs.  

Retrospectives has also programed films by Boro Draskovic, along with 5 shorts by Jan Cvitkovic.

On the festival΄s parallel program, the 2nd edition of the Balkan Film Connection (BFC) 5-day educational and networking platform is hosting a number of Southeast European film students and young professionals developing their first feature films. BFC (2015 theme: The Art of Storytelling), was created by director Stefan Arsenijevic and consists of interactive lectures, one-on-one working meetings, discussions and film projections.