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Festivals In Sarajevo
This is a list of festivals in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Arts and crafts * Balkan Photo Festival, January * Beton Fest, July * FEDU, May * PitchWise Festival, September * Pop Art Festival, May * Pop-Up! Sarajevo, December * Sarajevo Poetry Days, September * Sarajevo Street Art Festival, July * SOS Design Festival, October * Spiritus Progenitum, November * WARM Festival, June Culture, heritage and folk * American Folk Blues Festival * Baščaršija Nights, July * Five Days of Zagreb in Sarajevo, June * Ilidža Folk Music Festival, July * Ilidža International Children's Folklore Festival, June * Sarajevo Irish Festival, March * Sarajevo Winter Festival, December Film * Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival, September * Merlinka Film Festival, January * Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, November * Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival, December * Sarajevo Film Festival, August * Sarajevo Youth Film Festival, September * VIVA Film Festival, May Food * BeeFest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilidža Folk Music Festival
The Ilidža Folk Music Festival ( bs, Festival narodne muzike Ilidža / Фестивал народне музике Илиџa) is the oldest living and premier folk music festival in the Former Yugoslavia. It is held annually in Ilidža, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The festival was established in 1964 by the Association of Bosnian Recording Artists, is held in July and lasts for four days. The event hosts contemporary and traditional artists in genres under the umbrella of Folk, including Sevdalinka, Starogradska, Modern Folk, Novokomponovana, Macedonian Folk, Turbo-folk and accordion music. It has traditionally been the premier showpiece event for folk recording artists in Yugoslavia, with the two major Yugoslav record labels Jugoton and PGP-RTS releasing live LPs of each year's edition. Numerous acclaimed folk singers from the Former Yugoslavia were either signed by record labels or received wider media exposure following performances at the festival. Serbian Turbo-folk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarajevo StreeAt Food Festival
The Sarajevo StreeAt Food Festival ( bs, Festival ulične hrane Sarajevo / Фестивал уличне хране Сарајево) is an annual international street A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, ... food festival held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is held in July and August of every year and lasts for three weeks. The festival was established in 2018 by Pro Optimus Tours and is the only one of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The festival's main venue is Alija Izetbegović Square in downtown Sarajevo where it presents both national and international street food showcased by over 100 different vendors. The festival's programme also includes nightly rock concerts, after-work parties, EDM sessions, cooking workshops for school children and adults, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coffee Fest Sarajevo
Coffee Fest Sarajevo is an international coffee festival that is held annually in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The festival was established in 2014 by the ''Profesional'' Association in cooperation with the Bosnian Ministry of Trade. Festival partners include Robert Bosch GmbH and Tesla, Inc. It is held in numerous venues across the city, which include the Skenderija Center and MyFace. The first edition of Coffee Fest Sarajevo was held from 24 to 27 February 2014 and hosted 29 brands that were showcased on 18 exhibition booths. Participating brands came from Brazil, Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Tunisia, Turkey, Serbia, Switzerland and the United States. It attracted over 10,000 visitors from Bosnia and Herzegovina and neighboring countries. Exhibitors at the Coffee Fest Sarajevo are manufacturers, distributors and companies whose business include: * Coffee, tea, tea biscuits, chocolate, milk, creamers, water, syrup, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VIVA Film Festival
The VIVA Film Festival is an annual documentary and short film festival that is based in Sarajevo and in 19 cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The festival showcases international films with ecological,natural hereligious,touristic themes, as well as youth-made films. It was established by an international team of film professionals, environmentalists, diplomats, religious leaders and scholars that includes former US Vice President Al Gore (current festival Vice Chairman), Bosnian archeologist Semir Osmanagić and others, with the purpose of promoting inter-religious dialogue, the preservation of the environment and ecotourism Ecotourism is a form of tourism involving responsible travel (using sustainable transport) to natural areas, conserving the environment, and improving the well-being of the local people. Its purpose may be to educate the traveler, to provide fund .... Format The festival is composed of five competition programs: Grand Prix, Ecology, Religion, Tourism an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarajevo Youth Film Festival
The Sarajevo Youth Film Festival ( bs, Omladinski Film Festival Sarajevo / Омладински Филм Фестивал Сарајево), also known as OFF Sarajevo, is an annual film festival held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is held in September and showcases an extensive variety of feature, animated and short films from around the world. The main focus of the festival is on promoting young film directors and producers, student films and youth-themed films. OFF Sarajevo is considered to be one of the premium student film festivals in the Balkans. History The festival was established by film professionals from Bosnia and Herzegovina with the goal of giving younger filmmakers from the Former Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yu ... a wider platform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarajevo Film Festival
The Sarajevo Film Festival is the premier and largest film festival in Southeast Europe, and is one of the largest film festivals in Europe. It was founded in Sarajevo in 1995 during the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian War, and brings international and local celebrities to Sarajevo every year. It is held in August and showcases an extensive variety of feature and short films from around the world. The current director of the festival is Jovan Marjanović. History In October 1993, a ten-day Sarajevo International Film Festival was held, directed by Haris Pašović of MESS. The success of this event, combined with the legacy of Mirsad Purivatra's and Izeta Građević's wartime film screenings from 1992, led to the establishment of an annual festival. The first Sarajevo Film Festival was held from 25 October to 5 November 1995. At that time, the siege of Sarajevo was still going on and attendance projections were very low. However, a surprising 15,000 people came to see the films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival
The Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival ( bs, Sarajevski festival modnog filma / Сарајевски фестивал модног филма) is an international film festival held annually in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It exclusively showcases fashion films, advertising films, music videos and short documentaries on the fashion industry. It was established in 2015 by the Consortio Civium Invictum Foundation in cooperation with the London Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week Paris Fashion Week (french: Semaine de la mode de Paris) is a series of designer presentations held semiannually in Paris, France with spring/summer and autumn/winter events held each year. Dates are determined by the French Fashion Federation. ... and the Madrid Fashion Film Festival. Format SFFF was created in order to showcase and exhibit the new fashion cinematographic genre to wider audiences as well to create an institutional background to the increasing number of fashion films produced every year by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival
The Pravo Ljudski Film Festival ( bs, Pravo ljudski festival / Право Људски Фестивал) is an annual human rights documentary film festival held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The name translates to ''Totally Human''. It was established in 2006 with the goal of promoting socially engaged non-fictional audiovisual projects, dedicated to the development of critical spectatorship through socially engaged documentaries and independent art cinema. It is held for two weeks in November. The festival has developed an independent non-profit civic association under the same name. It is the largest festival of its kind in Southeastern Europe. History The festival takes its roots from a 2005 documentary film screening for students of the European Regional MA in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe. It was established one year later as an international documentary festival. The first edition was held in June 2006 and it organized screenings of 17 films, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merlinka Festival
The International Queer Film Festival Merlinka or Merlinka Festival is an annual LGBT-themed film festival which is annually organized in Belgrade (since 2009), Sarajevo (since 2013) and Podgorica (since 2014). The Belgrade edition is organized in the Belgrade Youth Center during the second week of December, and it lasts for five days. The Sarajevo and Podgorica editions are organized in January and February of each year, with the former being organized in the Art Cinema Kriterion, and the latter being organized in the PR Centre. The festival was founded in 2009 by the Gay Lesbian Info Centre and Belgrade Youth Center. It screens feature, documentary and short films from all over the world that deal with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, intersex and queer issues. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival
The Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival - AJB DOC is an annual international documentary film festival that is based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its first edition was held from 21–25 September 2018. The festival was established by Al Jazeera Balkans in cooperation with the Al Jazeera Media Network and the Doha-based Al Jazeera Media Institute. Al Jazeera Balkans is currently the biggest buyer of television format documentaries in the Former Yugoslavia and annually acquires rights for most of the regional documentary films that are screened during the Sarajevo Film Festival. AJB DOC directly lent its concept from the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival, which was founded in 2005 by Jordanian film director and writer, Abbas Arnaout. History On 13 February 2018 Al Jazeera Balkans confirmed the establishment of the AJB DOC Festival which will be held from 21–25 September 2018. Sarajevo was chosen as the venue because it already hosts the premier an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
