ART AND HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL 2025
Belgrade 10 – 13 June 2025
THINKING PEACE
For the fourth time, the "Art and Human Rights" Festival of DAH Theater opens the door to art that speaks, moves, and connects.
Under the theme "Thinking Peace", we are gathering 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 audiences to jointly reflect not only on the absence of war
, but also on the active presence of justice, human dignity, and positive peace.
Our festival will present artists from Montenegro, France, Greece, Croatia, the Netherlands, Italy, Palestine/Czech Republic, Israel, North Macedonia, Nigeria, Russia, Syria, USA, Taiwan, Ukraine
and Serbia.
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ON THE PROGRAM
PERFORMANCES, FILMS, TALKS, INSTALLATIONS, EXHIBITION, CONCERT, WORKSHOP
Through various art forms, the festival asks the questions: How to think about peace in a world full of conflict? How can art contribute to building a more just society? How do we remember, confront, and heal through artistic expression?
In addition to the performing arts program, this year you can watch films, installations, participate in round tables and talks by artists and peace builders from the region and beyond, and view an exhibition. A workshop for young people will offer creativity
tools for thinking about peace.
In a time of great and necessary changes in our society, as well as in a global geopolitical context marked by wars, dictatorships and daily human rights violations 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.
Amidst 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 geographical areas, 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
PERFORMANCE
SMOOTH LIFE – Dafa Theater, Palestine/Czech Republic
WATER – WALL Theater, Netherlands
PROVA – SubLab Scene&No-Mads Collective, Croatia/Netherlands
PRISONER OF ZION – Lee Perlman and Nadev Bosem, Israel
HERITAGE – DAH Theatre, Serbia [premiere]
NOT ONLY ME – ZID Theater, Netherlands
IMMORAL RECIPES – concert performance, Diffusion & 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
CHOIR RUK – Škart, Serbia
Katarina Drenjanin, DOM
INSTALLATIONS, PRESENTATIONS ROUND TABLE, WORKSHOP, EXHIBITION
INSTALLATION “Memory” – Katarina Drenjanin, Serbia / HOPE HIVE Project [opening]
PRESENTATION of peace organizations: Network for Building Peace – Damir Šaćiragić, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Peace Group of Young People Danube - Saša Bjelanović, Croatia; Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Marko Milosavljević, Serbia; Association
of Women Peščanik – 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 (North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia)
WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG PEOPLE “Thinking Peace” – Kostas Diamantis, Action Synergy, Greece/ HOPE Project
EXHIBITION "Faces of the Ukrainian Dream" - NGO All-Ukrainian Association Patriot, Ukraine
FILMS
RELOCATION (26') – Elahe Ismaili, Great Britain/ Iran
VOICES OF HAKA WOMEN (22') – Suzan Fuchs and Ja Lin Peng, Australia, Taiwan
WILL YOU LOOK AT ME? (20') – Shuli Huang, China
GRANDMOTHER'S SEXUAL LIFE (13' 38'') – Urška Đukić and Emili Pižar, Slovenia/France
AND GOD CREATED TRANS (64') – Simion Rakić, Serbia [Premiere]
MY UNCLE TUDOR (20'4) – Olga Lucovnicova, Belgium/Hungary/Portugal
ENTRANCE IS FREE!
Support us in creating a space of freedom and art!
10.06
11.00-12.00
Miljenko Dereta Space, Dobračina 55
Exhibition FACES OF THE UKRAINIAN DREAM – NGO All-Ukrainian Association Patriot, Ukraine [opens Vladimir Arsenijević, KROKODIL]
12.00-13.30
PRESENTATION OF PEACE ORGANIZATIONS: Peace Network – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Peace Group of Young People Danube – Croatia, Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Serbia, Association of Women Peščanik, Serbia. Moderated by: Jadranka Anđelić
13.30-15.00
SREBRENICA – 30 YEARS LATER PANEL: "The power and responsibility of art in the process of facing difficult historical truths"
16.00-19.00
WORKSHOP for young people: Thinking Peace – Kostas Diamantis, Action Synergy, Greece
15.00 and 19.00
Czech Center Belgrade Svetozar Markovića 79
PERFORMANCE: SMOOTH LIFE – Dafa Theater, Palestine/Czech Republic *
20.00
Dorćol Platz, Dobračina 59B
PREMIERE PERFORMANCE: HERITAGE – DAH Theatre, Serbia
21.30
Miljenko Dereta Space
FESTIVAL OPENING: DAH THEATER AND CHOIR – the first youth-pensioner 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 [within the Under600 project] - organizations from the WB region participate. Moderated by: Jadranka Anđelić
15.00
PRESENTATION of the ARTvocacy movement – 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 Haka Women – Suzan Fuchs and Ja Lin Peng (Taiwan -Australia [22′]
Grandmother's Sexual Life – Urška Đukić and Emili Pižar, Slovenia-France [14 ']
17.00–19.30
INSTALLATION: MEMORY – 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 [Rosana Lewis, Great Britain; Dijana Milošević, Ivana Milenović Popović, Katarina Drenjanin, Serbia; Olga Murashova, Russia]
18.00 and 21.00
Miljenko Dereta Space
PERFORMANCE: PRISONER OF ZION – Lee Perlman AND Nadev Bosem, Israel *
20.00
Dorcol Platz
DANCE PERFORMANCE: REHEARSAL – SubLab Scene & No-Mads Collective, Croatia / Netherlands
12.06.
12.00–14.00
Miljenko Dereta Space
ARTISTS' VOICES – Meeting of festival participants
15.00-20.00
Foundation M90, Kneza Miloša 3
PERFORMANCE: THE DAY WE MEET AGAIN – Sara Beinat, Italy [one viewer at a time, duration 7 minutes]*
16.00 UK Steamboat, Cinema
FILM: And God Created Trans 2024 | 64′ – Simion Rakić, Serbia [Premiere]
+ Conversation with the director
18.00
Miljenko Dereta Space
PERFORMANCE: A PEACE OF OOKIE – Amy Sarno, USA
20.00
Center for Cultural Decontamination CZKD, Birčaninova 21
PERFORMANCE: WATER – ZID Theater, Netherlands
13.06.
13.00
Miljenko Dereta Space
CONVERSATION WITH STUDENTS: Creativity in rebellion
15.00–20.00
Foundation M90, Kneza Miloša 3
Performance: THE DAY WE MEET AGAIN – Sara Beinat, Italy (performance duration is 7 minutes)*
16.00
UK Steamship, Cinema
MOVIES:
Grandmother's Sexual Life [13' 38''] – Urška Đukić; co-direction and animation by Emily Pižar, Slovenia
Relocation [27'] – Elahe Ismaili, Great Britain/Iran
My Uncle Tudor [20'] – Olga Lucovnicova Belgium, Hungary, Portugal
18.00
Miljenko Dereta Space
Solo performance: NOT ONLY ME – Nivin Baranbo, ZID Theater, Syria/Netherlands
20.30
Miljenko Dereta Space
Concert performance: IMMORAL RECIPES – Brigitte Sirla, Voix Polyphoniques and Sebastian Berange, Diffusion, France
* Due to the limited number of places, please confirm your arrival as soon as possible,
office@dahteatearcentar.com
REALIZATION SUPPORTED BY:
CZECH CENTER BELGRADE, FRENCH CULTURAL CENTER, ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTER, IMPACT, DUTCH EMBASSY, HOPE, ERASMUS + PROGRAM OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, UNDER600, BRITISH COUNCIL AND EUROPEAN UNION [Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans]
IN COLLABORATION WITH:
INTERACTION – SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL, UK PAROBROD, CZKD, INSTITUTE FOR ARTISTIC DANCE BELGRADE, DERETA SPACE, KROKODIL, DORĆOL PLATZ, ALMA QUATTRO, FRIDAY FINALLY, DONACIJE.RS
