Securing funding is not the only problem that some film festivals face. Yuliia Kovalenko, a Ukrainian film critic and programmer at Docudays in Kyiv who was involved in the Focus on Ukraine programme at Dokufest, told BIRN that her annual event was first hit by COVID-19 and then by Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022….
David Loyn, a BBC correspondent during the Kosovo war recounts moments of his work in a country that was descending to armed conflict. David Loyn, a BBC correspondent who reported on the war in Kosovo in 1998- 1999, maintains that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic’s actions in Kosovo amounted to ethnic cleansing. He emphasised that the…
Serbia, the US and the EU all condemned the closure by police of Serbian-run post offices in the north of Kosovo, with Serbia’s president appealing to Brussels to take action. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic accused Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti of attempting to spark conflict after Kosovo Police on Monday closed nine post offices run…
Under the theme ‘New Order,’ Kosovo’s International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Dokufest, will explore the reconfiguration of the global geopolitical landscape with an artistic order through its diverse film selections and thematic programs. The 23rd edition of the International Documentary and Short Film Festival, DokuFest, which starts on Friday, will showcase hundreds of films…
Miners at Kosovo’s once mighty Trepca complex are continuing their weeks-long strike over several months’ worth of unpaid wages. Miners at the giant Trepca complex in Kosovo entered the 23rd day of a strike on Thursday over unpaid salaries for June and July. On Thursday, the government said it was reviewing a work plan proposed…
Despite the outward positivity towards the Denmark-Kosovo prison transfer deal, a closer analysis reveals an ugly underbelly to the accord, raising numerous abuse and discrimination concerns. Mohamed Hassan Abdi moved to Denmark from Somalia when he was four years old and lived there throughout his life, never once returning to Somalia following his emigration. Throughout…
The fourth edition of the Sunny Hill Festival in Kosovo, which was founded by global pop star Dua Lipa and her father Dukagjin, was well-received by music lovers, but there were criticisms regarding ticket prices and the need for improvement in infrastructure. The fourth edition of Kosovo’s Sunny Hill festival, joined in the protest against…
“It is the fourth time I came to the festival,” she told BIRN on Thursday evening, as this year’s edition kicked off, recalling the first event in 2018, when global Kosovo Albanian star Dua Lipa, who together with her father Dukagjin, founded the festival, held her first concert in Prishtina. Global pop start Dua Lipa…
Only weeks after she was appointed, Zana Spahiu has resigned as acting director of Kosovo’s public broadcaster – following criticism of the decision to publish an article that allegedly smeared two local media outlets. Kosovo’s public broadcaster, Radio Television of Kosovo, RTK, on Thursday said acting general director Zana Spahiu had resigned, effective from July…
According to him, “45 per cent of the tickets sold are international, based on previous years [of attendance]”. While he acknowledges that Kosovo’s big diaspora adds to the visitor numbers, Lipa explains that “our goal is to develop an event in Kosovo that perhaps no one else could develop to the scale that we have”….