As revealed by Bitef artistic director Nikita Milivojević, the president of the jury will be prof. Dr. Ana Vujanović (HZT, University of the Arts in Berlin; SNDO, Academy for Theater and Dance, University of the Arts in Amsterdam).

The jury will also include Joris Lakost, playwright and theater director, artistic director of “Encyclopedia of Words”, Nataša Barbara Gračner, actress and professor of acting at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television of the University of Ljubljana, Siniša Ilić, visual artist and performance artist, scenographer and curator and Iris Rafetzider, playwright of the Wiener Festvohen festival.

They will decide who will receive this year’s festival awards – the “Mira Trailović” Grand Prix and the “Jovan Ćirilov” Special Award. The competition program consists of the plays “Children of the Sun” (Germany), “Goodbye, Lindita” (Greece), the opera-performance “Sun and the Sea” (Lithuania), “Singing Youth” (Hungary), #Jeanne” (Sweden), “Wakatt ” (Belgium, Burkina Faso), as well as domestic productions “The desire to make solid history will end in failure” and “Like all single girls”.

In addition to the main program, Milivojević drew attention to the side program of the 57th Bitef, which consists of Meetings with authors, Bitef polyphony and Cirkobalkan. The goal of the festival is to offer and develop a theoretical discourse that will accompany the selection of the main program this year. On that occasion, Prof. Dr. Ana Vujanović will hold a lecture “From the proletariat to the precariat – and back!”