The Balkan Film and Food Festival comes to Pogradec for its 16th edition

The 16th edition of the Balkan Film and Food Festival comes to Pogradec with days full of film, culture, flavours and inspiring encounters.

Screenings, conversations with artists and culinary activities will take place from 23 to 27 June. The programme published by the organisers invites art lovers to join the festival to celebrate the art, traditions and diversity of the Balkans on the wonderful shores of Lake Ohrid.

Tonight at 19:00, the film “Maricel” will be screened at the “Lasgush Poradeci” cinema. The film deals with the employment of a Filipino woman who arrives in a mountain village in Cyprus to look after an elderly couple. What begins as an ordinary job gradually turns into a story full of silence, emotional dependence and unspoken truths. Caught between duty and human closeness, Maricel confronts the fragile boundaries that link care, loneliness and the need to feel heard.

Meanwhile, tomorrow is reserved for short films from the University of Prishtina and the University of Tirana. The films will be screened in the evening in Pogradec’s central square.

The festival programme also includes feature films, documentaries, animated films and films made before the 1990s, such as “Komisari i dritës” (The Commissar of Light) by Dhimitër Anagnosti and Viktor Gjika. A.K./TemA