Carte Blanche: Balkan Night + Q&A (Edinburgh Short FF)

Name: Carte Blanche: Balkan Night + Q&A (Edinburgh Short FF)
Released: 2026-11-14
Duration: 1 h 47 min

<div><b>Screening as part of the </b><font color="#0000ee"><b><u><a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/edinburgh-short-film-festival">Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2026</a></u></b></font><b>.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>This screening will be followed by a Q&A with programmer and festival director, Guido Casale.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><div>Tonight we’re celebrating Balkan short film with the assistance of a network of Balkan film festivals, who have curated some of the best Balkan short films of recent years and we’re delighted to present them here.</div><div><br></div><div>There’s an astonishing, dreamlike and Oscar-qualifying animation, an intense and wryly humorous, and deeply affecting study of modern youth culture. There’s a compelling and poignant coming-of-age drama, along with an exploration of magical realism, capturing how ancient, deeply ingrained cultural beliefs still pulse beneath the surface.</div><div><br></div><div>Films curated by Drim Short Film Festival (North Macedonia), Balkans Beyond Borders (Balkan-wide), KO:SH Film Fest (Albania), Bašta Fest (Serbia), and Adriatic Film Festival (Italy).</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>FILMS FEATURED:</div></div><div><br></div><div><b><i>The Rabbit Is Dead </i></b>(dir. Hanis Bagashov, Albania, 2026, 20 mins, Albanian w/ English subtitles)</div><div><br></div><div><b><i>Fish Moon </i></b>(dir. Andrey Koulev, Bulgaria, 2026, 13 mins, Bulgarian w/ English subtitles)</div><div><br></div><div><b><i>Fortuna </i></b>(dir. Maurizio Forcella, Italy, 2026, 14 mins, Italian w/ English subtitles)</div><div><b><i><br></i></b></div><div><b><i>Tarik </i></b>(dir. Adem Tutić, Serbia, 2026, 27 mins, Serbo-Croat w/ English subtitles)</div><div><br></div><div><b><i>Write My Name </i></b>(dir. Begüm Aksoy Deya Ar, Türkiye/Palestine, 2026, 14 mins, Arabic w/ English subtitles)</div><div><br></div><div><b><i>The Bench </i></b>(dir. Trifun Sitnikovski, North Macedonia, 2026, 19 mins, Macedonian w/ English subtitles)</div>PT1H47MN/C 182026-11-14

Begüm Aksoy Deya Ar (<i>Write My Name</i>); Hanis Bagashov (<i>The Rabbit Is Dead</i>); Maurizio Forcella (<i>Fortuna</i>); Adem Tutić (<i>Tarik</i>); Andrey Koulev (<i>Fish Moon</i>); Trifun Sitnikovski (<i>The Bench</i>)

Carte Blanche: Balkan Night + Q&A (Edinburgh Short FF)"Carte Blanche: Balkan Night + Q&A (Edinburgh Short FF)"

Showtimes

November 14, 6:00 pm