Second PAF
The second Academic Theatre Festival - PAF 2023 was held from June 30th to July 3rd 2023 at the National Theatre of the Republic of Srpska and was organized by the Center for Visual Arts and the Academy of Arts of the University of Banja Luka. It hosted over a hundred participants, from six different academies and faculties of performing arts from the region.
The entry to all festival activities was free. The festival was supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Srpska and the City of Banja Luka. The partner of the festival was the National Theatre of the Republic of Srpska. The sponsor of the festival was the company M:TEL, while the sponsors of the theatre plays were MF Bank, Novomatic company, Drina Insurance and Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva.
Competition
Program
The festival’s audience had the opportunity to watch the following theatre plays: “Staklena menažerija” (Faculty of Dramatic Arts Cetinje), "Nora - Lutkina kuća" (Academy of Arts Banja Luka), “Seks, laži i divlje guske" (Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade), “Ljubav i krivica" (Faculty of Contemporary Arts Belgrade), “Zeko, zeko" (Academy of Arts Belgrade) and “Prljava" / “Szutyok” (Academy of Arts Novi Sad).
Accompanying
Program
In addition to the exceptional competition program, as in the previous year, an interesting accompanying program was also held within the festival: public reading of dramas written by students of the Dramaturgy Department of the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka, a lecture "Theatre in the Modern Times" held by theater director and professor Božidar Đurović, theatre play "Marso" by actor Nikola Milaković and the PAFterparty, at which DJ Dušan Radusinović performed.
Аwards
Božidar Đurović (theatre director), Miljka Brđanin (actress of the National Theatre of the Republic of Srpska) and Božana Bijelić (actress of the Children's Theatre of the Republic of Srpska)
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Best leadinga actress award
ANA TOMIC (Academy of Arts Belgrade) -
Best leadinga actor award
ĐORĐE JOVIČIĆ (Faculty of Contemporary Arts Belgrade) -
Best theatre play award
Theatre play “PRLJAVA” / “SZUTYOK” (Academy of Arts Novi Sad) -
Best supporting actress award
NATALIJA STEPANOVIĆ (Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade)
ANĐELA TASIĆ (Academy of Arts Banja Luka)
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Best supporting actor award
MATIJA MEMEDOVIĆ (Faculty of Dramatic Arts Cetinje)
MARKO ŠUKALO (Academy of Arts Banja Luka)
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Special acting award
TAMARA STANISAVLJEV (Faculty of Contemporary Arts Belgrade)
SZABO REGINA (Academy of Arts Novi Sad)
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Special acting award
MEZEI GRESAK LEA, AGYAS ADAM (Academy of Arts Novi Sad) -
Special collective play award
Ensemble of the play “Seks, laži i divlje guske" (Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade) -
Audience award
Theatre play “Prljava” / “Szutyok” (Academy of Arts Novi Sad)
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Direktor i selektor festivala: Dragana Purković Macan
Producent festivala: Sonja Đurić
Koordinator projekta: Jelena Jandrić
Marketing menadžer: Natalija Trivić
Grafički dizajn: Anđela Savić
Animacija: Igor Đurić
Logistika: Mia Ivančević, Borjana Mrđa, Aleksandar Ilić
Voditelj okruglih stolova: Aleksandar Vasiljević
Fotografije: Janja Bijelić, Dejan Desnica
Studenti volonteri: Katarina Lazić, Ivona Bijelić, Jelena Dakić, Matea Zrnić, Kolja Vasić, Andrija Lazić, Milica Vujasin, Mila Prosan, Branko Jović, Lazar Gajić, Tina Šipka, Aleksa Trkulja, Ognjen Babić, Ivana Nikolić, Aleksandar Kalajdžić, Miloš Ćebić, Pavle Pavić, Milica Vokić, Nikola Stanković, Andrea Novaković, Tara Jovanić, Anđela Rakočević