First Evening of KROKODIL Festival

24 May First Evening of KROKODIL Festival

On the first evening of the sixteenth edition of the KROKODIL Festival, on June 21st starting from 8 PM, you can expect performances by Nađa Petrović, Marko Tomaš, Faruk Šehić, and one of the most prominent French authors, Matthias Enard, at the amphitheater in front of the Museum of Yugoslavia. Festival’s program download HERE

In addition to conversations with the writers, we are announcing a sofa interview with Brian Rašić, a renowned music photographer, who will share interesting anecdotes from his rich career.

Furthermore, you will enjoy a mini-concert by Duda Buržujka, who will enhance the atmosphere with her unique musical style.

Mima Simić and Daško Milinović will ensure a lively program and good entertainment.

Tickets for the evening programs are available through the GIGS TIX sales network and online via new.gigstix.com, as well as at the KROKODIL Center (weekdays from 12 PM to 8 PM) and at the festival box office one hour before the program starts.

Nađa Petrović (b. 1997) graduated in dramaturgy from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, as well as obtained a master’s degree in film and TV directing from the same faculty.

At the age of sixteen, she won third place in the Young Literary Supertalents competition with her novel “That’s It.” Her stories have been published in collections such as “Stories from City Corners,” “Student Stories,” and “Wet Knots.”

Her novel “Medusas Live Forever Until They Get Caught,” published in 2023 by Geopoetika Publishing House, was shortlisted for the NIN Award and the Belgrade Victor Award.

Dozens of short films based on her scripts have been screened at over 100 festivals worldwide and have won awards at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Les Arcs Festival in France, Martovski Film Festival, and Beldocs Film Festival. She won the Best Screenplay Award for the film “Everything as It Should Be” at the Bašta Fest.

She has directed short fiction films and the short documentary “Second of August,” which was screened at several film festivals this year.

She is one of the screenwriters of the series “One Hundred Percent” by Srdan Golubović and Ivan Knežević.

She lives and works in Belgrade.

Marko Tomaš is a poet, writer, and columnist, born in Ljubljana in 1978. He was educated in Mostar and Sombor, worked in Sarajevo, Mostar, Split, and Belgrade, and currently resides in Mostar. His diary entries, essays, political and sports commentaries have been published on various portals and in magazines across the region.

He is the author of 16 poetry collections, including “Black Prayer Book,” “Regatta of Paper Boats,” “May Thirty-Ninth,” “Let’s Shorten the Story for the Head,” and “Verses from the Vending Machine.” He has also published a collection of poems and stories “Growing Up Melancholy,” the novel “Don’t Wake Me Up,” the biography “Ivica Osim – Matches of Life,” a collection of selected columns “Station and Paranoia,” a collection of essays “Letters from the South,” and the drama “Night with Alex.”

His poems have been translated into about ten world languages. He won the “Farah Tahirbegović” Award in 2014 and the “Pincom” Award for short story in 2004. Based on the motifs of his poems, the Croatian National Theatre in Mostar staged the multi-award-winning play “Nest,” and in 2022, the drama “Night with Alex.”

Matthias Enard was born in 1972, studied Persian and Arabic languages, and spent a long time in the Middle East. He lives in Barcelona. Critics hailed Enard’s novel “Zone” (Academic Book, 2016) as one of the most original books of the decade, and he received numerous French and international literary awards for it. He won the “Goncourt” Prize for his novel “Compass” (Academic Book, 2016) in 2015. The novel “Annual Feast of the Gravediggers’ Brotherhood” was published by Academic Book in 2023. Academic Book is preparing to publish the novel “La Perfection du tir” (Award “Five Continents of Francophonie” for 2004). Other significant novels include “Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants,” awarded the Goncourt High School Students’ Prize for 2010, “Remonter l’Orénoque” (2005), “Rue des voleurs” (2012), and “Déserter” (2023).

Faruk Šehić is a writer and fisherman. Born in Bihać, SFRY. During the war, he was a member of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina and was seriously wounded once. Literary critics consider him the voice of the so-called crushed generation of writers born in the 1970s. He has won numerous awards, including the Meša Selimović Award for the novel “Quiet Flows the Una” for the best book published in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro in 2011, the EUPL 2013 (European Prize for Literature) for the same novel, and the XXXI Premio Letterario Camaiore – Francesco Belluomini (International Prize) for the poetry selection “Return to Nature.” His books have been translated into sixteen languages ​​and published in twenty countries. He writes for the daily newspaper Oslobođenje. He lives in Sarajevo.

Julija Petković, better known as Duda Buržujka, expresses herself in various fields of art. Her primary field of activity is acting, as she graduated in acting from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, but she is increasingly successful in music as well. The song that catapulted her to stardom on the domestic internet and made her one of the women who move mountains is a true masterpiece.

Julija is the author of all the lyrics and music she releases under her alter ego Duda Buržujka, and her performances are like performances. She actively manages the Instagram page Haikuzadanas, trying to clarify people and phenomena to herself and others while fighting against imposed clichés.