This article is about the culture of

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...

, Serbia.

Cultural events

Film

The most significant feature film festivals in Belgrade are FEST (Belgrade Film Festival) and FAF ( Auter Film Festival), while BELDOCS and Martovski Festival (Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival) are important documentary film festivals.

Theatre

Held annually in September,

BITEF The Belgrade International Theatre Festival (abbr. BITEF) is a theatre festival that takes place every September annually in Belgrade, Serbia. History Founded in 1967, BITEF has continually followed and supported the latest theatre trends. It h ...

(Belgrade Theatre Festival) is considered one of the most important theatre festivals in Europe.

Music

Among the most popular music festivals in Belgrade are

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/ref> Belgrade Beer Festival and Belgrade Jazz Festival.

Literature

The

Belgrade Book Fair The International Belgrade Book Fair is one of the oldest and most important literary events in the region. Its basic objective is enabling publishers, authors, booksellers, librarians, book distributors, multimedia companies and other participant ...

is the main event related to literature in Belgrade.

Art

BELEF (Belgrade Summer Festival) is an art festival in Belgrade.

Art

The Nobel Prize–winning author Ivo Andrić wrote his most famous work, The Bridge on the Drina, in Belgrade. Other prominent Belgrade authors include Miloš Crnjanski, Borislav Pekić,

Milorad Pavić Milorad Pavić ( sr-Cyrl, Милорад Павић, ; 15 October 1929 – 30 November 2009) was a Serbian novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary historian. Born in Belgrade in 1929, he published a number of poems, short stories ...

and Meša Selimović. Internationally Belgrade prominent artists are: Marina Abramović and Milovan Destil Marković. Most of Serbia's film industry is based in Belgrade, and one of the most notable films to be made there was 1995's Palme d'Or winning ''

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'', directed by Emir Kusturica. The city was one of the main centers of the Yugoslav new wave in the 1970s:

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Ekatarina Velika Ekatarina Velika ( sr-Cyrl, Екатарина Велика, en, Catherine the Great), sometimes referred to as EKV for short, was a Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade, being one of the most successful and influential Yugoslav music acts. Initia ...

and Šarlo Akrobata were all from Belgrade. Other notable Belgrade rock acts include

Riblja Čorba Riblja Čorba ( sr-Cyrl, Рибља Чорба, pronounced ; translation: lit. ''Fish Stew'') is a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band formed in Belgrade in 1978. The band was one of the most popular and most influential acts of the Yugoslav ...

Bajaga i Instruktori Bajaga i Instruktori (Serbian Cyrillic: Бајага и Инструктори; trans. ''Bajaga and the Instructors'') are a Serbian and Yugoslav rock band formed in Belgrade in 1984. Founded and led by vocalist, guitarist and principal composer ...

and others. During the 1990s the city was the main center (in the former Yugoslavia) of a musical style known as turbofolk. Today, it is the center of the

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scene, with acts such as Beogradski Sindikat, Škabo, Marčelo, and most of the Bassivity Music stable hailing from or living in the city.

Cultural institutions

There are many foreign cultural institutions in Belgrade. Instituto Cervantes,

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and Centre Culturel Français are all located in central pedestrian Knez Mihailova Street. Other cultural centres in Belgrade are

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, Austrian Cultural Forum (''Österreichischen Kulturforums''), British Council, Confucius Institute, Canadian Cultural Center, Italian Cultural Institute (''Istituto Italiano di Cultura''), Culture Center of Islamic Republic of Iran, Azerbaijani Culture Center and Russian Center for Science and Culture (''Российский центр науки и культуры'').

References

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