Afisha
Herceg Novi
39 Herceg Novi Film Festival
22. август – 28. август 2026
Herceg Novi Film Festival – Montenegro Film Festival is the most important film festival in Montenegro and has been running for more than three decades. The Festival is accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films – FIAPF), making it part of the global network of renowned international film festivals. The Festival’s International Program includes competitive sections: feature-length fiction films documentary films student films a selection from the Adriatic Region Festival Network The non-competitive Kino Evropa program presents recent works by established European filmmakers. As of 2025, the Festival also includes a program dedicated to television series. The Festival’s main goal is to promote regional and world cinema, opening space for filmmakers and films that cultivate an authentic artistic sensibility, a bold approach to social reality, film language, and production, with an emphasis on showcasing contemporary poetics and expression. As part of the Festival, the Montenegro Film Rendezvous is held, organized by the Film Centre of Montenegro — film industry days dedicated to strengthening ties between the Montenegrin and European film industries and supporting the career development of Montenegrin film authors and professionals.
Multicultural Festival “Castelwave”
18. септембар – 20. септембар 2026
The International Multicultural Festival “Castelwave” will be held from 18 to 20 September 2026 at the Ivo Andrić Nobel Prize Winner’s House in Herceg Novi. The festival is organized by the NGO “Trabakul” with the support of JUK “Hercegfest”. Over the course of three days, artists and performers from Japan, Germany, Türkiye and Serbia will be presented. The program connects Tokyo, Berlin and Belgrade with Herceg Novi, and the festival will also have a winter edition in March. Friday, 18 September, at 6 and 7 p.m.: The festival will open with a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, which is included on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Japan. The program will be led by Milijana Vujaklija (Belgrade), an educator from Japan’s Edosenke school of tea, with guest Ai Keto (Tokyo), a third-rank master of calligraphy. In addition to the tea preparation ritual, Ai Keto will present the traditional kimono and Japanese etiquette. The ceremony will be held at two different times due to public interest. In his work Unrest, Andrić wrote “A Story of Japan” and was the first in our literature to mention the word Japan. Saturday, 19 September, at 6 p.m.: Turkish-German artist Nezaket Ekiçi will perform “Homage to Andrić”, inspired by the novel The Bridge on the Drina. Three high school students from Herceg Novi will participate in the program, while quotations from the novel will be read in Montenegrin, German and Turkish. Sunday, 20 September, at 7 p.m.: The Montenegrin premiere of the experimental documentary film “Maga 1909”, directed by Branka Pavlović from Belgrade, will be shown. The film was produced as a German-Serbian co-production and explores through dance the life of journalist, intellectual and feminist Magi Magazinović. Magazinović was Andrić’s contemporary and wrote for the newspaper Politika, in which Andrić also published his stories.
Free
Четвртак, 27. avgusta
"Morning with Klapa" throughout the entire month of August
1. avgusta–29. avgusta
Everybody Loves Touda
27. avgusta, 17:00
Dvorana Park
Trezor
27. avgusta, 19:00
Dvorana Park
Everything That's Wrong with You
27. avgusta, 21:00
Kanli Kula
🎟 10 € (for 2 films)
Black Money for White Nights
27. avgusta, 21:00
Forte Mare
🎟 10 € (for 2 films)
Mother
27. avgusta, 23:00
Kanli Kula
🎟 10 € (for 2 films)
Only Beautiful Things to Look At
27. avgusta, 23:00
Forte Mare
🎟 10 € (for 2 films)
