Belgrade's Auteur Festival Showcases Freshest Global Film Talent

The 23rd edition of Auteur Film Festival, FAF, will take place in Belgrade from November 24 - December 2.

The main venue for the Auteur Film Festival is once again Dom Omladine. However, films will also be shown at the Belgrade Cultural Centre and Yugoslav Film Archive, Fontana Theatre and the Studentski Grad Cultural Centre in Novi Beograd, as well as in the Vlada Divljan Cultural Centre, Parobrod and the Art Cinema of the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment.

The audience will once again have the opportunity to enjoy a carefully-curated selection of the best independent, arthouse and films d'auteur released in the past couple of years from across the world.

The festival will open with Israeli director Samuel Maoz' Foxtrot (2017). The military drama won the Grand Jury Prize at the 47th Venice Film Festival, as well as eight Ophir awards, including best director and best movie. Maoz describes the movie as "a philosophical parable trying to deconstruct this vague concept called 'fate' through a story about a father and his son".

FAF works as a platform for films that are otherwise quite inaccessible and that stand a very poor chance of being shown on the big screen in Serbia.

This, combined with the degree of prestige that FAF has attained, explains why the festival keeps growing and increasing in popularity year after year.

Traditionally, the Auteur Film Festival features movies that won major festival awards, received critical accolades or shook the world of cinema in one way or another.

The selection also commonly includes some of the latest and most exciting movies created by Serbian authors, directors and writers, as well as releases by not-yet-established but promising young filmmakers.

The festival is...