Address: Aberdareva St. No 1, 11000 Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.

Boy with a Suitcase, written by Mike Kenny, tells the story of Naz, a 12 year old boy who is forced to leave his home and undertake a long and dangerous journey to a ‘promised land’ where his brother lives, in pursuit of a better life. 

In his small suitcase, Naz carries his biggest treasure - bedtime stories told by his parents during his childhood. With the help of these stories and Krysia, a girl he meets along the way, Naz manages to meet with his brother in safety and tell a new story: his own.

Duration: 140 min

Genre: Youth theatre

Price: 10 - 12€

Credits:

• Direction: Damjan Kecojević
• Translation: Milica Naumović
• Playwright: Bojana Lazić
• Set design: Zorana Petrov
• Costume design: Maja Mirković
• Music: Vladimir Pejaković
• Cast: Mladen Lero, Jelena Ilić, Jovana Cvetković, Jelena Ćuruvija Đurica / VladislavaĐorđević, Dubravka Kovjanić, Nedim Nezirović

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase following this link.

Address: Skver Mire Trailović 1, Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.

The performance "Crises" concludes the programme of the festival, whose mission is to promote new names. This performance is deliberately put at the end of the 56th Bitef as it expands the topical frame of the main programme: it tackles not only the social issues related to work but also the philosophical phenomenon of crisis.

Duration: 1 hour 15 min

Genre: Theatre

Price: 2.000 RSD (12-17€)

Credits:

• Direction: Žiga Divjak
• Production: Nova Pošta (Mladinsko Theatre and Maska)

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through Bitef’s website here.

Address: Luka Beograd, Old Matez, 37 Zorza Klemansoa St, Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Slovenian with Serbian and English subtitles.

‘Solo’ consists of four performers, though its starting point truly was a solo venture; based on a personal, professional reflection by the director Nina Rajić Kranjac and her position in her line of work and theatrical circumstances in Slovenia.

Duration: 3 hour 30 min

Genre: Theatre

Price: 2000 RSD (17€

Credits:

• Idea, concept and performance: Nina Rajić Kranjac, Nataša Keser, Benjamin Krnetić, Marko Mandić 
• Production: Nova Pošta (Mladinsko Theatre and Maska)

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through Bitef’s website here.

Address: Milesevska St. No.64a, Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.

An auteur project by Ersan Mondtag, one of the most promising young artists of the German and European theatre scenes. Living Room at the Belgrade Drama Theatre is a part of the eponymous project initiated in 2021 in the Belgian theatre NTGent.

The title is a word play which is untranslatable into Serbian – since it is a living room, i.e. sitting room or - literally translated from English - a room for living.

“My international career was launched several years ago, at the 51st Bitef festival, which makes my relationship with Belgrade quite unique and I’m glad to be back. Living Room, the second part of the trilogy The Living, is a story about life. We see an elderly woman who is getting ready for work in her living room. Once the stage rotates, we see a young woman in the same situation. That’s practically the same life over the course of 40 years.”

- Ersan Mondtag

Duration: 90 min

Genre: Theatre

Price: RSD 1.500 (around 13€)

Credits:

• Authorship, Direction, Set Design and Lighting Design: Ersan Mondtag
• Co-Author: Tijana Grumić
• Costume Design: Josa Marx
• Sound Design: Jonas Grundner-Culemann
• Consecutive Interpretation: Dušan Nikolić
• Assistant Director: Jug Đorđević, Jonas Grundner-Culemann
• Artistic Assistant: Simon Lesemann
• Cast: Vesna Čipčić, Aleksandra Anja Alač / Iva Ilinčić, Ljubomir Bulajić, Aleksandar Jovanović
• Organization: Bojana Mišić Drnda
• Stage Manager and Prompt: Jovana Matić
• Works of art used in the performance by: „Osvajanje Beograda“, Katarina Ivanović (National Museum in Belgrade), „Moj život po Vazariju“, Olja Ivanjicki (“Olga Olja Ivanjicki” Fund)
• Our gratitude to Mr. Dejan Đurović
• Photography: Dragana Udovičić
• Co-production: Belgrade Drama Theatre and Bitef Theatre

How to book?

Tickets are already available for purchase through the National Theatre of Belgrade’s website here.

Address: Luka Beograd, Blue hall, 37 Zorza Klemansoa St, 11000, Belgrade | Event Map  | Venue Accessibility

Performance in Serbian with English subtitles.

"Love", one of the most wanted productions in the world, written and directed by Alexander Zeldin, follows the destinies of several people driven to a homeless shelter by adverse circumstances and loss of home, homeland, or job.

Duration: 1 hour 30 min

Genre: Theatre

Price: 2 250 RSD (around 19€)

Credits:

• Text and direction: Alexander Zeldin 
• Production: A Zeldin Company, London, United Kingdom, in coproduction with Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Paris, France Original production: National Theatre of Great Britain in co-production with Birmingham Repertory Theatre

How to book?

Tickets are available for purchase through Bitef’s website here.

Address: Studentski trg 16, 11000, Belgrade | Event Map 

Performance in Serbian with an English synopsis distributed beforehand. 

Dancing Trees is a site-specific dance theatre show by the independent theatre troupe and artistic collective DAH Theatre, created in collaboration with the Belgrade Dance Institute. The performance explores the importance of tree preservation. The show consists of seven performers with the original music, and it aims to sensitise the audience and encourage initiatives in defence against excessive tree felling. In addition to the performances in the parks, the project includes talks and a digital platform, webinar and video, as well as other activities that connect art and ecology.

Duration: 50 min

Genre: Site-specific performance

Price: Free

Credits:

• Direction and Dramaturgy: Dijana Milošević and Jadranka Anđelić 
• Performers: Vladimir Čubrilo, Đurđija Jelenković, Ivana Milovanović/Đorđe Kocić, Ivan Nikolić, Miona Petrović, Ivana Milenović Popović, Zoran Vasiljević 
• Texts and sources: Peter Wohlleben „The Hidden Life of Trees“; Diana Beresford Kroeger „To Speak for the Trees“; Hermann Hesse „About Trees“; Manoel Penna “Street Tress”; Affonso Romano Sant’Anna “Arboreal Love”; Miona Petrović “Message to the Trees”; material from internet 
• Music: Ivana Stefanović
• Electronic: Dragan Mitrić 
• Voices: Ivana Milenović Popović, Ivan Nikolić, Neša Paripović, Miona Petrović, Milan Popović, Vid Popović, Aleksandar Vasiljević, Andrija Vasiljević, Zoran Vasiljević 
• Vocals: Ljubica Damčević 
• Sound design: Zoran Jerković 
• Video, projections, mapping: Jelena Rubil 
• Costume: Ivana Samolov 
• Object doll: Snežana Arnautović 
• Light design: Milomir Dimitrijević, Radovan Samolov
• Organisation and Production: Nataša Novaković, Milica Petrović 
• Director’s assistants: Rumena Šopova, Ana Bošković 
• Technical Production: Milomir Dimitrijević, Radovan Samolov 
• Technical support: Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade 
• Text recording and technical support: Zoran Vasiljević 
• Translation from Portuguese: Jovan Tatić and Jadranka Andjelić 
• Finance: Dragana Živanović
• Marketing: Ivana Milenović Popović 
• PR: Tanja Rapp 
• Social Networks: Aleksandra Atanacković 
• IT support: Miloš Jovanov (Green Friends) 
• Photography: Djordje Tomić 
• Graphic design: škart Film

Realised in collaboration with: Belgrade Dance Institute

Supported by: ITAC – Climate Impact, Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, International Relief Fund of the German Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe Institute, City of Belgrade – Secretary for Culture

How to book?

This performance has free access. No pre-booking needed.