NEWS

SUBMISSIONS FOR 11TH BAŠTA FEST ARE OPEN

We are happy to inform you that submissions for the 11th edition of the international short fiction film festival Bašta Fest are open from October 15th, 2024. To be included in the selection process for Bašta Fest, you have to submit your short fiction film of up to 30 minutes via the website:  The film ... >>

15/10/2023

10th Bašta Fest officially closed

The tenth edition of Bašta Fest, the international short fiction film festival in Bajina Bašta, was officially closed with the awards ceremony and the screening of the films “Snow White” by Lana Barić and “Have You Seen This Woman?” by Dušan Zorić and Matija Gluščević. The “Golden Imagination” award for the best film as a ... >>

03/07/2023

10. Bašta Fest is officially opened!

The tenth edition of Bašta Fest, an international short fiction film festival in Bajina Bašta, was officially opened by actress Milena Radulović on June 29 at Open Air Borići, after which films from the competition program of the festival were shown. The founders of the festival, actors Maja Šuša and Jovan Jelisavčić, addressed the attendees. ... >>

29/06/2023

DUŠAN ZORIĆ AND MATIJA’S GLUŠČEVIĆ DEBUT FEATURE FILM “HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WOMAN” WILL CLOSE THE TENTH BAŠTA FEST

Bašta Fest continues the old tradition – as part of the non-competition program, we close the festival with a debut achievement that (according to the Bašta team) marked the past year. At this year’s festival, on July 2rd after the awards ceremony, at our Open Air in the park “Borići”, the audience will have the ... >>

29/06/2023

MILENA RADULOVIĆ IS OPENING THE TENTH BAŠTA FEST

We are excited to share our last piece of pre-festival news with you! Thus far, each Bašta Fest was opened by a young actor or actress who has enjoyed great success in the previous year. Basta Fest has been growing with every one of them, and we always look forward to their new roles while ... >>

26/06/2023

MUSIC PROGRAM OF THE TENTH BAŠTA FEST

We present to you the music program of the tenth Bašta Fest for which we hope you will be dancing in the open, with the most original names in the Serbian club scene. On this year’s festival we will listen to: Dj Iron, Dj Igor Jadranin, traditional Čola night and Funk Technik Group – FTG. Tenth ... >>

24/06/2023

JURY OF THE TENTH BAŠTA FEST

It is with joy and pride that we announce the jury of the tenth Bašta Fest! The main jury consists of three members: Lana Barić, an actress, director and screenwriter from Croatia, Radivoje Raša Andrić, a director from Serbia, and Ricard Balada, an actor from Spain. Awards will be given for: Best film (Golden Imagination), ... >>

22/06/2023

BAŠTA FEST EXPANDS INDUSTRY PROGRAMME

Bašta Fest, together with regional partners Drim Short Film Festival (Struga, North Macedonia) and Seanema Film Festival (Ulcinj, Montenegro), in 2022. has founded BALKAN SHORT FILM NETWORK, which aims to educate young filmmakers and promote short films in the region. Since this year, the project has expanded and acquired a new dimension, BALKAN X VISEGRAD SHORT FILM NETWORK with the support ... >>

14/06/2023

COMPETITION PROGRAMME OF THE TENTH BAŠTA FEST

Bašta Fest Team is happy and proud to announce the competition program of the tenth Bašta Fest, which will be held from June 29th to the 2nd of July in Bajina Basta, West Serbia! For this year’s edition arrived about 600 films, making selection a difficult task for our selector Maja Šuša. 29 short fiction ... >>

07/06/2023

10th BAŠTA FEST – YOU CAN DO ANYTHING

We present to you the poster of the tenth Bašta Fest and slogan YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING that recapitulates the previous ten years of work and development of this festival launched with great enthusiasm by young filmmakers. The program is free, places are not numbered, and nature is in its old place and is waiting ... >>

01/06/2023

TENTH BAŠTA FEST FROM 29TH OF JUNE TO 2ND OF JULY

The tenth edition of Bašta Fest, an international short fiction film festival in Bajina Bašta, will be held from the 29th of June to the 2nd of July 2023. This manifestation, founded by actors Jovan Jelisavčić and Maja Šuša, focuses on the collaboration between directors and actors. The focus on quality acting interpretations has had ... >>

18/05/2023

OPEN CALL FOR BALKAN SHORT FILM NETWORK

Bašta Fest, together with partners from regional countries, Drim Short Film Festival (Struga, Northern Macedonia) and Seanema Film Festival (Ulcinj, Montenegro), founded BALKAN SHORT FILM NETWORK, for the education of young filmmakers, as well as the promotion of short films in the region. We are continuing with the workshop programme for developing short fiction films ... >>

18/04/2023

SUBMISSIONS FOR 10TH BAŠTA FEST ARE OPEN

We are happy to inform you that submissions for the tenth edition of the international short fiction film festival Bašta Fest are open from October 15th, 2022. To be included in the selection process for the 10th Bašta Fest, you have to submit your short fiction film of up to 30 minutes via the website http://www.filmfreeway.com. The film you ... >>

18/10/2022

9th Bašta Fest has been closed

The ninth edition of the international short feature film festival “Bašta fest” in Bajina Bašta ended with the awards ceremony, the screening of the film “After the Winter”, and the concert of the band Koikoi. The festival’s main jury consisted of Marta Bjelica, an actress from Serbia, Dušan Kasalica, a director from Montenegro, and Lana ... >>

05/07/2022

THE NINTH BAŠTA FEST HAS BEEN OPENED!

The ninth Bašta Fest, an international short feature film festival in Bajina Bašta, started on Thursday, June 30th. Over the next four days, a selection of 24 films from 15 countries awaits, five of which are from Serbia and ten from the region. The jury – Dušan Kasalica (director), Marta Bjelica (actress), Lana Matić (producer ... >>

01/07/2022

MLADEN SOVILJ IS OPENING THE NINTH BAŠTA FEST

We are excited to share our last piece of pre-festival news with you! Thus far, each Bašta Fest was opened by a young actor or actress who has enjoyed great success in the previous year. Basta Fest has been growing with each and every one of them, and we always look forward to their new ... >>

27/06/2022

JURY OF THE NINTH BAŠTA FEST

We are happy and proud to announce the jury of the ninth Bašta Fest! The main jury consists of three members: Marta Bjelica, an actress from Serbia, Dušan Kasalica, a director from Montenegro and Lana Matić, a producer and selector and producer of the Zagreb Film Festival from Croatia. The awards will be given for: the best film ... >>

21/06/2022

MUSIC PROGRAM OF THE NINTH BAŠTA FEST

We present to you the music program of the ninth Bašta Fest for which we hope you will be dancing in the open, with the most original names in the Serbian club scene. And for the very end of the festival, after the closing and award ceremony, we are listening to the increasingly popular Belgrade ... >>

16/06/2022

IVAN BAKRAČ’S DEBUT FEATURE FILM “AFTER THE WINTER” WILL CLOSE THE NINTH BAŠTA FEST

Bašta Fest continues the old tradition – as part of the non-competition program, we close the festival with a debut achievement that (according to the Bašta team) marked the past year. At this year’s festival, on July 3rd after the awards ceremony, at our Open Air in the park “Borići”, the audience will have the ... >>

13/06/2022

Participants selected for the BALKAN SHORT FILM NETWORK

As part of this year’s, ninth edition of Bašta Fest, we are opening the first program within the BALKAN SHORT FILM NETWORK with our Bašta Pitch workshop. The workshop will take place between 30.06. and 03.07. with the support of the Western Balkans Fund, the Ministry of Culture and Information and the Film Center Serbia. A four-member ... >>

07/06/2022

COMPETITION PROGRAM OF THE NINTH BAŠTA FEST

Bašta Fest Team is happy and proud to announce the competition program of the ninth Bašta Fest, which will be held from June 30th to the 3rd of July in Bajina Basta, West Serbia! For this year’s edition arrived about 700 films, making selection a difficult task for our selector Maja Šuša. 25 short fiction ... >>

01/06/2022

THE VISUAL IDENTITY OF THE NINTH BAŠTA FEST

We are happy to share the poster for the ninth Bašta Fest, while the slogan SAMO DOĐI (English translation: just come) is the answer to all your questions about the organization and visit to our festival! The programme is free of charge, nature is at the old place and is waiting for you to celebrate ... >>

31/05/2022

OPEN CALL FOR BALKAN SHORT FILM NETWORK

Bašta Fest, together with partners from regional countries, Drim Short Film Festival (Struga, Northern Macedonia) and Seanema Film Festival (Ulcinj, Montenegro), founded BALKAN SHORT FILM NETWORK, for the education of young filmmakers, as well as the promotion of short films in the region. The first and currently biggest project is the expansion of our educational ... >>

19/04/2022

BALKAN SHORT FILM NETWORK

Bašta Fest, together with regional partners Drim Short Film Festival (Struga, North Macedonia) and Seanema Film Festival (Ulcinj, Montenegro), has founded BALKAN SHORT FILM NETWORK, which aims to educate young filmmakers and promote short film in the region. The three partners are united around the same goals – decentralising culture, raising awareness of the importance ... >>

28/03/2022

SUBMISSIONS FOR 9TH BAŠTA FEST ARE OPEN

We are happy to inform you that submissions for the 9th edition of the international short fiction film festival Bašta Fest are open from November 22nd, 2021. To be included in the selection process for Bašta Fest, you have to submit your short fiction film of up to 30 minutes via the websites www.festhome.com and www.filmfreeway.com. The ... >>

22/11/2021

8th BAŠTA FEST IS CLOSED

The eighth Bašta Fest ended on July 4 at the Open-air “Borići” in Bajina Bašta with the film “Loan Shark”,directed by Nemanja Ćeranić. After “Loan Shark”, there was a projection of the musical film “Buč Kesidi:Euphoria Live” directed by David Jovanović. During the three days of the festival, the audience and the jury had the ... >>

06/07/2021

MILICA JANEVSKI IS OPENING THE EIGHTH BAŠTA FEST

We are excited to share our last piece of pre-festival news with you! Thus far, each Bašta Fest was opened by a young actor or actress who has enjoyed great success in the previous year. Basta Fest has been growing with each and every one of them, and we always look forward to their new ... >>

01/07/2021

MUSIC PROGRAMME OF THE EIGHTH BAŠTA FEST

And here it is! The music programme of Bašta Fest will get you to dance under the clear night sky, with the most original artists of Serbian music and clubbing scene. And all of it – free of charge! The 8th Bašta Fest – the international short fiction film festival, is held from July 1st ... >>

29/06/2021

„BUČ KESIDI : EUPHORIA LIVE“ AT THE 8TH BAŠTA FEST

The friendship and collaboration between Bašta Fest and our dear music duo continue! On the closing night of the festival on July 4th, after the screening of the film “Loan Shark” from 22:30h, we will watch the music film “Buč Kesidi: Euphoria Live”. This music film brings new performances of songs from the album “Euphoria” ... >>

29/06/2021

JURY OF THE EIGHTH BAŠTA FEST

We are happy and proud to announce the jury of the eighth Bašta Fest! The main jury consists of three members: Branka Katic, an actress from Serbia, Ivan Bakrac, a director from Montenegro and Asja Krsmanovic, a playwright and selector of Sarajevo Film Festival for student films. The awards will be given for: the best ... >>

21/06/2021

BAŠTA FEST x LE GREC caravan

Bašta Fest is complementing this year’s program with a great non-competition short film program in cooperation with the French Institute in Serbia and Le Grec. Le Grec is a significant French production of debutant short films. They focus on the discovery of young talents and celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2019. As part of the ... >>

16/06/2021

EXHIBITION “TRACE OF ONE TIME – FILM POSTER 1945-1970”

The exhibition “Traces of a Time – Film Poster 1945-1970”, which will present film posters from the holdings and archives of the Film Center of Serbia, will be open to the public from the 1st to the 4th July in the Gallery of the Institution “Culture” Bajina Basta during eighth Bašta Fest. 22 posters of ... >>

09/06/2021

COMPETITION PROGRAM OF THE EIGHTH BAŠTA FEST

Bašta Fest Team is happy and proud to announce the competition program of the eighth Bašta Fest, which will be held from July 1st to 4th in Bajina Basta, West Serbia! Considering that this year’s selection is made from a merged pool of submissions from this and last year’s editions, about 1200 films arrived, making ... >>

03/06/2021

“LOAN SHARK” CLOSES THE EIGHTH BAŠTA FEST!

Bašta Fest continues the old tradition – as part of the non-competitional program, we close the festival with a debut feature film that (according to the Bašta Fest team) marked the past year. At this year’s festival on July 4th, after the awards ceremony, at our favourite location by the Lake Perućac, the audience will ... >>

31/05/2021

VISUAL IDENTITY OF THE 8th BAŠTA FEST

We are happy to share the visual identity of the 8th Basta Fest, by the author Milica Milosavljević. Our slogan for this year is OFFLINE, as we want to talk about the beauty of watching films, together, on a large cinema screen. We are looking forward to gathering, to hanging out, to the days in ... >>

24/05/2021

EIGHT BAŠTA FEST FROM 1ST TO 4TH OF JULY

Dear friends, We want to inform you that the 8th Bašta Fest will be held on its regular dates on the first weekend in July, so this year our date is from July 1st to 4th. Considering that last year we redirected all the submitted films to the program for this year, our selectors have ... >>

10/05/2021

THE SUBMISSIONS FOR THE EIGHTH BAŠTA FEST ARE NOW OPEN

We are happy to inform you that submissions for the eighth edition of the international short fiction film festival Bašta Fest are open from December 15th, 2020. To be included in the selection process for the 8th Bašta Fest, you have to submit your short fiction film of up to 30 minutes via the websites www.festhome.com and ... >>

15/12/2020

7th Bašta Fest is closed!

The 7th Bašta Fest was closed on September 13 at the Open Air “Borići” in Bajina Bašta. The focus of the non-competition film program of the Bašta Fest was on domestic and regional authors, who have been part of the festival in the previous years. The audience had the opportunity to see short and debut ... >>

15/09/2020

The 7th Bašta Fest is opened!

The 7th Bašta Fest, international short fiction film festival in Bajina Basta, opened on Thursday, September 10th. The non-competitional film program of the 7th Bašta Fest has a focus on national and regional authors, who have been part of the Bašta Fest in the previous years. The programme includes films by Ognjen Glavonić, Marko Djordjević, ... >>

11/09/2020

IVANA VUKOVIĆ AND FILIP ĐURIĆ ARE OPENING THE SEVENTH BAŠTA FEST

We are excited to share our last pre-festival news with you! Thus far, each Bašta Fest was opened by a young actor or actress who has enjoyed great success in the previous year. With every one of them, Bašta Fest has been growing and looking forward to their new roles. Past editions of Bašta Fest ... >>

09/09/2020

7th BAŠTA FEST FROM 10TH DO 13TH SEPTEMBER 2020.

Great news! Due to the improvement of the epidemiological situation and relaxation of measures, the 7th Bašta Fest will be held from 10-13th of September 2020. This year we have a non-competitional film programme with a focus on Serbian and regional authors. The audience will have the opportunity to see seven debut films by directors ... >>

26/08/2020

7th BAŠTA FEST IS POSTPONED

Dear friends, We have decided to postpone the festival that was planned from July 23 to 26, due to the current epidemiological situation on the territory of Bajina Basta. On July 14, a state of emergency was declared and the measures include a ban on gatherings of more than five people indoors and outdoors. On ... >>

15/07/2020

SEVENTH BAŠTA FEST WITHOUT MUSIC PROGRAM

Dear friends, Bašta Fest, like other festivals, is facing a difficult period of planning and organizing events during the pandemic, as well as the unclear future regarding the measures implemented because of the spread of the virus. This makes it very difficult, if not impossible, for us to have any real strategy and plan. With ... >>

14/07/2020

FILM PROGRAM OF 7th BAŠTA FEST

We present you the film program of the 7th Bašta Fest, which will be held in Bajina Bašta from 23-26 of July! We firmly believe in a festival that creates a live experience and networking which can only be accomplished in person and public, so we have decided that this year’s Bašta Fest will be ... >>

22/06/2020

visual identity of the SEVENTH BAŠTA FEST

The visual identity of the seventh Bašta Fest by our designer Milica Milosavljević is in front of you! As the poster itself says, the seventh Bašta Fest brings a non-competitional film programme and we will have the opportunity to watch seven debut films by directors who have been part of the Bašta Fest so far! ... >>

03/06/2020

The seventh Bašta fest will be non-competition only; the new date is 23.-26. July 2020.

Dear friends, We write to inform you that the seventh Bašta Fest will not be cancelled, but will happen in a changed format, with the new dates of 23-26. July 2020. At this moment, we don’t know if 90% of the authors of films from the competition programme will be able to attend the festival in ... >>

27/05/2020

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 7TH BAŠTA FEST ARE CLOSED

Submissions for the 7th Bašta Fest are now closed! The competition programme with short fiction films will be selected by our programmer Nikola Ljuca and our art director Maja Šuša by the end of May. You can find all the info on our website, facebook and instagram pages. Thank you for your submissions!... >>

02/03/2020

EXTENDED SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 7TH BAŠTA FEST

We are happy to inform you that submissions for the seventh edition of the international short fiction film festival Bašta Fest are extended until March 1st, 2020. To be included in the selection process for the seventh Bašta Fest, you have to submit your short fiction film of up to 30 minutes by sending an ... >>

16/02/2020

BAŠTA FEST FOR THE CHILDREN’S SHELTER

While we are preparing New Year’s gifts for the children from daycare center “Ja imam san” from Bajina Bašta, we have shared the holiday atmosphere with the children from Children’s Shelter in Belgrade and brought the theatre and cinema to their home. On the 19th of December, in collaboration with Imlek company, Right agency, Zoom ... >>

28/12/2019

THE SUBMISSIONS FOR THE SEVENTH BAŠTA FEST ARE NOW OPEN!

We are happy to inform you that submissions for the seventh edition of the international short fiction film festival Bašta Fest are open from December 15th, 2019. To be included in the selection process for the seventh Bašta Fest, you have to submit your short fiction film of up to 30 minutes by sending an ... >>

15/12/2019

The 6th Bašta Fest is closed

The 6. Basta Fest was closed on July 7th with the out of competition screening of a feature film “The Witch Hunters” by Rasko Miljkovic. The film crew was greeted by the audience and the director of the film officially closed the festival. During the three festival days, the audience and the jury had the ... >>

10/07/2019

ISIDORA SIMIJONOVIĆ IS OPENING THE SIXTH BAŠTA FEST

We are excited to share our last pre-festival news with you! Thus far, each Bašta fest was opened by a young actor or actress who has enjoyed great success in the last year. Witch each and every one of them, Basta fest has been growing and we look forward to their new roles while also ... >>

03/07/2019

Bašta pitch mentors and jury

This year, Basta Fest is introducing a new industry programme with the support of Film Centre Serbia – a free workshop designed for presentation of projects of young film directors from Serbia – Basta pitch! The workshop is being held during the festival, on July 4-7th! Among applicants, mentor Mina Djukic has selected five projects ... >>

02/07/2019

THE JURY OF THE SIXTH BAŠTA FEST

We are proud and happy to announce the jury of the sixth Bašta fest! The main jury consists of three members and they are Dragana Varagic, Serbian actress, Rasko Miljkovic, Serbian director and Carla Fotea, Romanian producer. They will hand over five awards: for the best movie (Golden imagination), the best director (Golden indication), the ... >>

29/06/2019

WORKSHOP “SET DESIGN” ON 6. BAŠTA FEST

We are happy to announce that the workshop “Set design”, led by the costume and set designer Selena Orb, will be held from June 30th to July 3rd in Bajina Bašta, as part of the pre-festival programme of Bašta Fest! Workshop “Set design” is consisted of making various spaces that have its goal to visually ... >>

25/06/2019

SHORT WAVES FF ON 6TH BAŠTA FEST

Last year Bašta Fest was a part of the programme Best of ten on Short Waves Festival in Poznan, Poland. This year we are responding to the hospitality and we are going to screen 3 films from Short Waves’ this year’s Polish competition programme – Poland in Focus on 5th of July in 22h in the centre of the ... >>

24/06/2019

MUSIC PROGRAMME OF THE SIXTH BAŠTA FEST

The music programme of Bašta fest will get you to dance ’til dawn under the clear night sky, with the most original artists of Serbian music and clubbing scene. And all of it – free of charge! The 6. Bašta fest – international short fiction film festival, is happening from July 4th to July 7th, ... >>

17/06/2019

„THE WITCH HUNTERS“ ARE CLOSING THE SIXTH BAŠTA FEST!

Bašta fest is continuing its old tradition – as part of non-competition film programme, the festival will be closed by a debut feature film which has (according to the opinion of Bašta team) left a mark on this past year. This year, on July 7th, after the awards ceremony at our favourite location by the ... >>

05/06/2019

COMPETITION PROGRAMME OF THE SIXTH BAŠTA FEST

Bašta team is happy to announce this year’s competition programme! Selector Nikola Ljuca, with the assistance of our artistic director Maja Šuša selected 24 films from 18 countries! In three days audience will be able to see films from Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, B&H, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Austria, France, USA, Canada, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Iran, Netherlands and ... >>

01/06/2019

MINA ĐUKIĆ – MENTOR OF BAŠTA PITCH WORKSHOP

As the part of this year’s, sixth edition of Bašta fest, in collaboration with Film Center Serbia, we are including a new industry programme – a free-of-charge workshop on project presentation for young film directors from Serbia – Bašta pitch! From the submitted applications, the mentor will choose five projects and directors will prepare, by working with the ... >>

30/05/2019

THE POSTER OF THE SIXTH BAŠTA FEST

We are happy to share the poster for the sixth Bašta Fest with our favorite Zaovine lake and this year’s logline – Bašta te briga (Serbian required)! Get ready for four days of outdoors screenings and parties, with daily trips that will put your mind at ease! Author of the poster is our Milica Milosavljević. We ... >>

22/04/2019

SIXTH BAŠTA FEST 4-7 JULY 2019

It’s time to announce the dates for the sixth Bašta fest! Just like in previous years, Bašta fest is going to take place during the first weekend of July, so this year we’re expecting you in Bajina Bašta from July 4th to 7th! Save the dates in your planner, take a few days off and ... >>

04/04/2019

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE SIXTH BAŠTA FEST ARE CLOSED

Submissions for the sixth Bašta fest are now closed. We want to thank you for a large number of submissions and to inform you that we are now in the process of selecting films! The authors of the selected films will be informed by the end of May, while Bašta fest competition programme will be ... >>

02/04/2019

THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS EXTENDED TO 1ST OF APRIL

To be included in the selection process for the sixth Bašta fest, you have to submit your short fiction film of up to 30 minutes by sending an e-mail to prijava@bastafest.com with a link to the film in high resolution (Vimeo or YouTube) or via the websites www.festhome.com and www.filmfreeway.com. The film you are applying with must ... >>

21/03/2019

Bašta Fest is the winner of the special award of the Tanja Petrović Fondation

The special award for the enthusiasm of the Tanja Petrović Fondation was awarded to International Short Fiction Film Festival – Bašta fest in Bajina Bašta, West Serbia, while the journalist Teofil Pančić won the award for an outstanding contribution to the promotion of culture and art in media. The organizers of Bašta Fest were awarded ... >>

01/03/2019

TO CUT IT SHORT, DO YOU HAVE A FILM?

THE SUBMISSIONS FOR THE SIXTH BAŠTA FEST ARE NOW OPEN! We are happy to inform you that submissions for the sixth edition of the international short fiction film festival Bašta fest are open from February 1st, 2019. To be included in the selection process for the sixth Bašta fest, you have to submit your short ... >>

20/01/2019

BAŠTA FEST IN SERBIAN CULTURAL CENTRE IN ISTRIA

On 02nd of October on 20:30h in Serbian cultural centre in Istria, Croatia (Gallery SKUC, Maksimijanova 12, Pula), Serbian films from this year’s festival edition will be screened as part of the Bašta fest presentation! The audience will have a chance to watch films by young serbian authors: „On my own“ by director Nikola Polić, ... >>

02/10/2018

MILAN MARIĆ IS OPENING THE FIFTH BAŠTA FEST

We are excited to share our last pre-festival news with you! Thus far, each Bašta fest was opened by a young actor or actress who has enjoyed great success in the last year. With each one of them, Bašta fest has been growing, we look forward to their new roles and we are really proud ... >>

04/07/2018

THE JURY OF THE FIFTH BAŠTA FEST

We are proud and happy to announce the jury of the fifth Bašta fest! The main jury consists of three members and they are: Domenico La Porta, film journalist and editor “at Cineuropa.org, Nikolina Vučetić-Zečević, producer from Serbia and Milica Gojković, young Serbian actress. They will hand over five awards: for the best movie (Golden ... >>

01/07/2018

BAŠTA FEST WARMING UP

To celebrate the first small jubilee of Bašta fest, we have prepared a pre-festival programme on the 3rd and 4th of July for our lovely and dear citizens of Bajina Bašta. On July 3rd, in the courtyard of elementary school “Rajak Pavićević”, we will watch a restored digital copy of VIP Kinoteka programme – “The ... >>

01/07/2018

„BANDITS IN SEARCH OF MOM“ ARE CLOSING THE FIFTH BAŠTA FEST!

  Bašta fest is continuing its old tradition – as part of non-competition film programme, the festival will be closed with a debut feature film which has (according to the opinion of Bašta team) left a mark on this past year. This year, on July 8th, after the prize giving ceremony at our favourite location ... >>

25/06/2018

TIMIKIDS – PROGRAMME FOR CHILDREN

Given that children are our regular audience, this years’ Bašta fest brings a special programme for our youngest guests! In collaboration with Timishort, international short film festival in Timisoara, Romania, Bašta fest will show two blocks of TimiKids programme – one dedicated for children between 6 and 10 years of age, and one for those ... >>

19/06/2018

MUSIC PROGRAMME OF THE FIFTH BAŠTA FEST

The music programme of Bašta fest will get you to dance ’til dawn under the clear night sky, with the most original artists of Serbian music and clubbing scene. And all of it – for free! The fifth Bašta fest – international short fiction film festival, is happening between 5th and 8th of July 2018. ... >>

11/06/2018

COMPETITION PROGRAMME OF THE FIFTH BAŠTA FEST

Bašta team is happy to announce this year’s film programme! Selector Nikola Ljuca, with the assistance of our artistic director Maja Šuša selected 26 films from 18 countries for the competition programme! In three days audience will be able to see films from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Denmark, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Romania, China, Finland, Belgium, ... >>

28/05/2018

BAŠTA FEST SELECTED AMONG THE BEST SHORT FILM FESTIVALS IN EUROPE

This year, Bašta Fest is participating in the selection of the Best of ten programme of the international short film festival Short Waves in Poznan. This selection was created on the occasion of the tenth anniversary edition of the Short Waves Festival and it brings together the ten most interesting short film festivals in Europe ... >>

23/03/2018

TO CUT IT SHORT, DO YOU HAVE A FILM?

THE SUBMISSIONS FOR THE FIFTH BAŠTA FEST ARE NOW OPEN! We are happy to inform you that submissions for the fifth edition of the international short fiction film festival Bašta fest are open from February 1st, 2018. To be included in the selection process for or the fifth Bašta fest, you can submit your short ... >>

01/02/2018

BAŠTA FEST IS STARTING DEVELOPING BAŠTA NETWORK

As part of Bašta fest’s growing industry program (which will take place during the festival), we are introducing Bašta network initiative with film festivals from the region, Europe and the whole world. Main goals of this initiative are exchanging knowledge, ideas, film programs and projects that are closely connected to short fiction films and short ... >>

26/06/2017

JURY OF THE FOURTH BAŠTA FEST

We are proud and happy to announce jury of the fourth Bašta fest! The main jury has three members and these are: Croatian actress Ivana Krizmanić, Bojan Vuletić film director from Serbia, and from Italy Massimiliano Nardulli, film curator and festival programmer for many short film festivals around Europe. They will hand over five awards: ... >>

21/06/2017

BAŠTA FEST IN SERBIAN CULTURE CENTRE IN ISTRIA

We are happy to announce that Bašta fest will be presented in the Serbian culture centre in Istria, Pula. The first part of the program will be held today, on 12 th of June with the beginning at 20:30h and the second part on 19 th of June at the same time. The festival will ... >>

11/06/2017

MUSIC PROGRAM OF THE FOURTH BAŠTA FEST

The hot sunny weekend arrived, so this is the moment to announce this year’s Bašta fest music program! On Thursday, the 29 th of June we will see and hear famous Serbian actor Sergej Trifunović as a DJ. Regional club audience especially loves his fantastic vinil sets. On the second night of the festival, on ... >>

10/06/2017

“IGLA ISPOD PRAGA” ZATVARA ČETVRTI BAŠTA FEST

Bašta fest nastavlja staru tradiciju – u okviru revijalnog programa, festival zatvaramo debitantskim ostvarenjem koje je (prema mišjenju Bašta tima) obeležilo proteklu godinu. Ovogodišnji festival, 2. jula, nakon dodele nagrada, na našoj omiljenoj lokaciji na jezeru Perućac, publika će imati priliku da pogleda crnogorosko-srpsku komediju “Igla ispod praga” reditelja Ivana Marinovića. Nakon prošlogodišnje premijere na ... >>

05/06/2017

„MALESH“ IS OPENING FOURTH BAŠTA FEST

As a part of the non competition program, short fiction film „Malesh“ – directed by Ivan Bakrač, written by Bane Jevtić, produced by Cineplanet and Karantin film – is opening the fourth Bašta fest. The association „Akademska scena“ that is organizing Bašta fest spread into new field of work – production company Karantin film. We ... >>

01/06/2017

FILM PROGRAM OF THE FOURTH BAŠTA FEST

Bašta team is happy to announce this year’s film program! Our selector Nikola Ljuca, with the assistance of artistic director Maja Šuša selected 25 films from 18 countries for the competition program! In three days audience will be able to see films from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Denmark, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Romania, Bulgaria, Brazil, China, ... >>

31/05/2017

NIKOLA LJUCA ANNOUNCED AS THIS YEAR’S BAŠTA FESTIVAL PROGRAMMER

The films screened as part of the main competition selection at Bašta fest are each year being chosen by the festival’s programmers, one or few emerging young film directors from Serbia. We are proud to announce that this year Nikola Ljuca took over this role, him being the old friend of the festival: during the ... >>

30/04/2017

ENTRIES CLOSED FOR 4th BAŠTA FEST

Bašta fest will be held from June 29th until July 2nd this year, and we are looking forward to new friends, films and talents! Applications for the main competition program of the 4th Bašta Fest have been closed during the Easter holidays, to be exact – on April 16th – and up to this moment ... >>

30/04/2017

TO CUT IT SHORT, DO YOU HAVE A FILM?

THE SUBMISSIONS FOR THE FOURTH BAŠTA FEST ARE NOW OPEN! We are happy to inform you that submissions for the fourth edition of the international short fiction film festival Bašta fest are open from February 10 th , 2017. In addition to that, we are proudly and enthusiastically introducing our new visual identity, signed by ... >>

10/02/2017

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