ART AND HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL 2025
Belgrade 10 – 13 June 2025.
THINKING PEACE
For the fourth time, DAH Theater's "Art and Human Rights" Festival opens the door to art that speaks, moves and unites.
Under the theme "Thinking peace", we gather creators from all over the world with a common goal - freedom, dignity, respect for human rights and the rights of all living beings. This year's festival invites participants and audience to think together not only about the absence of war, but the active presence of justice, human dignity, and positive peace.
Our festival will present artists from Montenegro, France, Greece, Croatia, Holland, Italy, Palestine/Czech Republic, Israel, North Macedonia, Nigeria, Russia, Syria, USA, Ukraine and Serbia, as well as films from Taiwan, Slovenia, Great Britain/Iran, China, Belgium/Hungary/Portugal.
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PERFORMANCES, FILMS, CONVERSATIONS, INSTALLATIONS, EXHIBITION, CONCERT, WORKSHOP
Through various art forms, the festival asks questions: How to think peace in a world full of conflicts? How can art contribute to building a fairer society? How do we remember, face and heal through artistic expression?
In addition to the performing arts program, this year the audience will watch films, installations, participate in round tables and talks by artists and peace builders from the region and beyond, and see an exhibition. A youth workshop will offer creative tools for thinking about peace.
FESTIVAL 2025 Photo: Nata Korsky
In a time of great necessary changes in our society, as well as in a global geopolitical context marked by wars, dictatorships and daily violations of human rights around the world, art has the power to open the way to empathy, solidarity and dialogue, which are irreplaceable features of social justice that leads to peace.
In the midst of the harsh reality of life under occupation, art remains our form of resistance and our voice that cannot be silenced.
Al-Harah Theater, Bethlehem
We are all scattered around the world, in different geographies, with very different realities, so whenever we are able to overcome physical distance and come together in person, it is always deeply meaningful and precious.
Andrea Bartoli, Farm Cultural Park, Favara
PERFORMANCES
THE SMOOTH LIFE - Dafa Theater, Palestine/Czech Republic
WATER – ZID Theatre, The Netherlands
PROVA – SubLab Scene&No-Mads Collective, Croatia/Netherlands
PRISONER OF ZION – Lee Perlman and Nadev Bosem, Israel
HERITAGE - DAH Theater, Serbia [premiere]
NOT JUST ME – ZID Theater, The Netherlands
IMMORAL RECIPES - concert performance, Difffusion & Voix Polyphoniques, France
PERFORMANCE
THE DAY WE MEET AGAIN - Sara Beinat, Italy
RUSSIANBRIDE.COM – Olga Murashova (Russia/Serbia) HOPE HIVE Project [premiere]
A PEACE OF COOKIE – Amy Sarno, USA
HOR RUK – Škart, Serbia
Katarina Drenjanin, DOM
INSTALLATIONS, PRESENTATIONS ROUND TABLE, WORKSHOP, EXHIBITION
"Remembrance" INSTALLATION - Katarina Drenjanin, Serbia / HOPE HIVE Project [opening]
PRESENTATION of peace organizations: Peace Building Network - Damir Šaćiragić, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Danube Youth Peace Group - Saša Bjelanović, Croatia; Youth Initiative for Human Rights - Marko Milosavljević, Serbia; Peščanik Women's Association - Slavica Stanojlović Urošević, Serbia;
PRESENTATION - ARTvocacy Movement - Rita Ezenwa-Okoro and Ezenwa Eleazar Okoro, Street Project Foundation, Nigeria
ROUND TABLE "Rights of independent theater artists in the Region - sustainability strategies", UNDER600 platform (Northern Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia)
YOUTH WORKSHOP "Thinking Peace" - Kostas Diamantis, Action Synergy, Greece/ HOPE Project
EXHIBITION "Faces of the Ukrainian Dream" - NGO All-Ukrainian Association Patriot, Ukraine
MOVIES
THE MOVE (26') – Elahe Ismaili, Great Britain/ Iran
VOICES OF WOMEN OF THE HAKA PEOPLE (22') – Susan Fuchs and Ya Lin Peng, Australia, Taiwan
WILL YOU LOOK AT ME? (20') – Shuli Huang, China
GRANDMOTHER'S SEX LIFE (13' 38'') – Urška Đukić and Emili Pižar, Slovenia/France
AND GOD CREATES TRANS (64') – Simion Rakić, Serbia [Premiere]
MY TECHA TUDOR (20'4) – Olga Lucovnicova, Belgium/Hungary/Portugal
ADMISSION IS FREE!
Support us in creating a space of freedom and art!
10.06
11.00-12.00
Prostor Miljenko Dereta, Dobračina 55
Exhibition FACES OF THE UKRAINIAN DREAM – NGO All-Ukrainian Association Patriot, Ukraine [opened by Vladimir Arsenijević, KROKODIL]
12.00-13.30
PRESENTATION OF PEACE ORGANIZATIONS: Peace Network - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Danube Youth Peace Group - Croatia, Youth Initiative for Human Rights - Serbia, Peščanik Women's Association, Serbia. Moderated by: Jadranka Anđelić
13.30-15.00
SREBRENICA - 30 YEARS AFTER PANEL: "The power and responsibility of art in the process of facing difficult historical truths"
16.00-19.00
YOUTH WORKSHOP: Thinking Peace - Kostas Diamantis, Action Synergy, Greece
I 15.00 19.00
Czech Center Belgrade Svetozara Markovića 79
PERFORMANCE: THE SMOOTH LIFE - Dafa Theater, Palestine/Czech Republic *
20.00
Dorćol Platz, Dobračina 59B
PREMIERE OF THE PLAY: HERITAGE - DAH Theater, Serbia
21.30
Miljenko Dereta's space
FESTIVAL OPENING: DAH THEATER AND CHOIR-RUK - the first youth-retirement choir, Serbia
11.06.
12.00-14.00
UK Steamship, Captain Mishina 6a
ROUND TABLE: Rights of independent theater artists in the region - sustainability strategies [under the Under600 project] - participating organizations from the WB region. Moderated by: Jadranka Anđelić
15.00
ARTvocacy PRESENTATION - Rita Ezenwa-Okoro and Ezenwa Eleazar Okoro, Street Project Foundation, Nigeria
16.00 Cinema
FILMS: Will you look at me - Shuli Huang, China [20′]
Voices of Hakka Women - Susan Fuchs and Ya Lin Peng (Taiwan - Australia [22′]
Grandma's sexual life - Urška Đukić and Emili Pižar, Slovenia-France [14']
17.00–19.30
INSTALLATION : REMEMBERING - Katarina Drenjanin, Serbia / HOPE HIVE Project [Opening]
PERFORMANCE: RUSSIANBRIDE.COM – Olga Murashova, Russia/Serbia/ HOPE HIVE Project [Premiere]
TALK: Experiences of the Hope Hive Project [Rosanna Lewis, UK; Dijana Milošević, Ivana Milenović Popović, Katarina Drenjanin, Serbia; Olga Murashova, Russia]
I 18.00 21.00
Miljenko Dereta's space
PERFORMANCE: PRISONER OF ZION - Lee Perlman And Nadev Bosem, Israel *
20.00
Dorcol Platz
DANCE PERFORMANCE: PROVA - SubLab Scene & No-Mads Collective, Croatia / The Netherlands
12.06.
12.00–14.00
Miljenko Dereta's space
VOICES OF ARTISTS - Meeting of festival participants
15.00-20.00
M90 Foundation, Kneza Miloša 3
PERFORMANCE: THE DAY WE MEET AGAIN - Sara Beinat, Italy [entry per audience, duration 7 minutes]*
16.00UK Steamboat, Cinema
FILM: And God Created Trance 2024 | 64′ – Simion Rakić, Serbia [Premier]
+ Conversation with the director
18.00
Miljenko Dereta's space
PLAY: A PEACE OF OOKIE - Amy Sarno, USA
20.00
Center for cultural decontamination CZKD, Birčaninova 21
PERFORMANCE: WATER – WALL Theater, The Netherlands
13.06.
13.00
Miljenko Dereta's space
CONVERSATION WITH STUDENTS: Creativity in rebellion
15.00–20.00
M90 Foundation, Kneza Miloša 3
Performance: THE DAY WE MEET AGAIN - Sara Beinat, Italy (performance duration is 7 minutes)*
16.00
UK Steamship, Cinema
FILMS:
Grandma's sexual life [13' 38''] – Urška Đukić; co-direction and animation by Emily Pižar, Slovenia
Moving [27'] – Elahe Ismaili, Great Britain/Iran
Moj teča Tudor [20'] – Olga Lucovnicova Belgium, Hungary, Portugal
18.00
Miljenko Dereta's space
Solo performance: NOT JUST ME - Nivin Baranbo, ZID Theater, Syria/Netherlands
20.30
Miljenko Dereta's space
Concert performance: IMMORAL RECIPES - Brigitte Sirla, Voix Polyphoniques and Sebastian Berange, Difffusion, France
* Due to the limited number of places, please confirm your arrival as soon as possible, office@dahteatearcentar.com
IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORTED BY:
CZECH CENTER BELGRADE, FRENCH CULTURAL CENTER, ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTER, IMPACT, DUTCH EMBASSY, HOPE, ERASMUS + EUROPEAN UNION PROGRAM, UNDER600, BRITISH COUNCIL AND EUROPEAN UNION [Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans]
IN COOPERATION WITH:
INTERAKCIJA – SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL, UK STEAMER, CZKD, INSTITUTE FOR ART PLAY BELGRADE, PROSTOR DERETA, KROKODIL, DORĆOL PLATZ, ALMA QUATTRO, FRIDAY FINALLY, DONACIJE.RS
