Overview
- The two-day event closed in Drvengrad after opening with the premiere of Ekaterina Yakovleva and Oleg Nekishev’s Italian Resistance. Film 2: Overcoming.
- The program featured Vitaliy Buzuev and Mikhail Burov’s Dayton Treaty. Peace on the Scales alongside works by Tatyana Borshch, Ruslan Gusarov, Artem Somov and Olga Kiriy.
- A business-program panel titled Balkans and Donbass: lessons of history examined parallels between Republika Srpska and Donbass with Emir Kusturica and Russian war correspondents among participants.
- Honored guests included Emir Kusturica, Vladimir Solovyov, Semyon Pegov, Alexander Rogatkin, Pavel Kukushkin, Natalya Bondarchuk and actor Mikhail Mamaev, as well as Serbian and Italian journalists.
- Organizers report a catalog of over 100 films and announced next stops: Nalchik on November 28–30 and Tskhinvali on November 29, with premieres and a planned panel linking both cities by live discussion.