International Female Film Festival PETRA (1)

Festival start: 08 December 2022      Festival end: 11 December 2022

The first edition of the International Female Film Festival Petra will take place from 8 – 11 December 2022 at the The Cultural Centre of Belgrade Movie Theatre.

The Festival is established to celebrate women’s filmmaking, women authors and films exploring women’s topics. It will feature women directors from around the world and present feature and documentary films.

The special guest of this year’s Festival is Maria Lea Evarsdottir from Reykjavik, Iceland, a producer who has inspired the director, screenwriter and producer Natalija Avramović to make the first international female’s film festival in Serbia. Natalija took part at the Reykjavik’s RVK Feminist Film Festival, and inspired by the wonderful experiences from the country of ice and fire, decided to take this leap of faith.

The name PETRA symbolizes a strong woman who can do anything she sets her heart to. It originates from Ancient Greek „Πεтρα“ meaning rock, stone. In other words, Petra is a woman of stone, determined, firm, unflinching, a strong-willed woman, woman warrior.

In her debut feature film, SPRING POEM, Natalija named her leading protagonist Petra. This is an exceptional, original character, a woman of flesh and blood who, despite difficult circumstances, manages to rise out of the ashes and score a decisive victory, primarily over herself.

Natalija is preparing two other films about Petra, which will form a trilogy together with the Spring Poem. Each film creates a separate story and deals with different issues. The second feature film is an epic story about a fatal love, while the third one will bring us back to the roots of the fairy tale-like, but cruel childhood of Petra.

Onwards, to many years to come, with PETRA!

The Festival slogan – A WOMAN IS A SYMBOL OF A STRONG WOMAN

The best woman director will receive the Festival statue and a 500.00 EUR award!

Submitting starts on April 1 and ends on September 1, 2022.

Women directors from all over the world are welcome to submit feature and documentary films not less then 70 minutes and not over 120 minutes length.

Waiting for you and looking forward to welcome you at the first International Female Film Festival Petra in Belgrade, Serbia.