Balkan Film Week

This year’s – now already eighth – Balkan Film Week took place from 9 to 12 March 2026. During four days we showed eleven films. This year’s programme included the documentary Fiume o morte! by Croatian director Igor Bezinović, which recently won the European Film Award in the documentary category, the award-winning feature film Fantasy by Slovenian director Kukla, and In Hell with Ivo by Bulgarian director Kristina Nikolova about singer and artist Ivo Dimchev who brought down the house at last year’s Balkannacht.

The Balkan Film Week is part of the TRADUKI project and a cinematic introduction to the diverse literary programme at the Leipzig Book Fair. As in previous years, the programme was curated by Marija Katalinić.

All film screenings took place at the UT Connewitz.