07 Nov Mirëdita, dobar dan! Festival – Prishtina, November 20–22, 2025
Founded with the idea of fostering mutual understanding and cooperation, the Mirëdita, dobar dan! festival has been a unique platform showcasing the cultural scenes of Priština in Belgrade and vice versa — creating a space where creativity becomes a vehicle for shared reflection on the present and the future.
This year’s 12th edition of the festival will take place from November 20 to 22 in Priština, featuring a programme that brings together both emerging talents and established artists from Belgrade’s vibrant cultural landscape.
In a time marked by the resurgence of nationalist rhetoric — both globally and regionally — Mirëdita, dobar dan! remains a unique space for reflection, dialogue, and connection. As festival coordinator Tijana Đuknić notes:
“True reconciliation is impossible without confronting the past and envisioning and building the future together. The festival offers a space to engage with the pressing political and socio-historical issues that shape the complex relationship between Kosovo and Serbia, while also bringing personal narratives and lived experiences to the forefront.”
The festival opens on November 20 at 8 p.m. at Defy Them with a performance by Pliš, an emerging collective from Belgrade’s alternative rock scene whose sound fuses the nostalgia of early-2000s indie guitars with the emotional pulse of the contemporary underground.
The second day of the festival features a rich and thought-provoking programme. It begins with the debate “Peace in an Era of Global Turmoil: The Future of Relations Between Serbia and Kosovo”, followed by an authors’ roundtable at 1 p.m. at Hotel Grand, highlighting the personal experiences of authors featured in The Moment War/Peace Started for Me, published by Propeace.
The day continues at the Barabar Centre with the opening of Ivan Šuletić’s exhibition Falsa Immagine, accompanied by a participatory installation by emerging artists Nemanja Joković and Mihaela Vučinić, titled Do You Want to Flatten All Layers Before Saving? — curated by Mia David (starting at 3 p.m.).
The evening concludes, also at the Barabar Centre at 7 p.m., with the theatre play All Good Barbies, directed by Đorđe Nešović and produced by Hartefakt. The play follows a young, fiercely uncompromising woman who returns to her hometown on the eve of her thirtieth birthday — unready to admit, even to herself, the sense of failure that brought her back. Through a series of intense encounters with family and friends, her carefully built defenses begin to crack, forcing her to face not only the wound that drove her home but also the many scars left by her childhood.
The final day, November 22, opens with the debate “Decontextualizing the Struggle for a Just and Democratic Society in Serbia” at 1 p.m. at Hotel Grand, which will critically examine Serbia’s current sociopolitical crisis and its implications for the Kosovo question. The discussion will also include the presentation of YIHR’s Kosovo Chronology 2.0.
Later in the evening, at 5 p.m., Bubble Bar will host a poetry reading featuring Radmila Petrović, one of Serbia’s most acclaimed young poets. The festival will conclude with the screening of Emilija Gašić’s award-winning film 78 Days, shown at Hotel Grand (Congress Floor) at 8 p.m. The film follows three sisters growing up during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia. While their father is drafted into the military, they begin recording a Hi8 video diary, capturing the tenderness, confusion, and resilience of childhood under the shadow of war.
All festival events are free and open to the public.
The “Mirëdita, dobar dan!” festival is organized by Integra (Kosovo), the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (Serbia), and Civic Initiatives (Serbia), with support from the National Endowment for Democracy, the European Union, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Pro Peace – Kosovo, and the Barabar Centre.
“Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans” (CC4WBs) project, funded by the European Union, is focused on fostering dialogue in the Western Balkans by enhancing the cultural and creative sectors for increased socio-economic impact. Over a 48-month period, the CC4WBs project aims to improve the performance of the cultural and creative sectors in order to enhance skills, knowledge, access to financial aid to increase competitiveness and sustain co-production and circulation of goods and services in the Western Balkans.”
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