July 16th – August 8th 2010.

This year the Belgrade Summer Festival – BELEF, with the slogan „On The New Wave“, will attempt to present Belgrade as the cultural centre of the region, a city that offers an exceptional cultural scene and a tolerant, communicative, urban essence.

The beginnings of The New Wave movement in Serbia are traced back to the year of 1980 and the publication of the infamous record „Paket Aranzman“ (Package Deal) promoting a new, autentic esthetics and perspective that was introduced into our culture by the bands like Idoli (Idols), Šarlo Akrobata (Charles the Acrobat), and Električni orgazam (Electic Orgazam). The new wave espoused new ideas so in that period it seemed as if Belgrade were the center of Europeor even the world. It delivered a new generation of eminent artists, unique personalities, who alltogether rendered Belgrade the charming and irresitable place it has remained to this day.

With a number of concerts, photography exhibitions, screenings and panels of this year’s BELEF, we shall mark 30 years of The New Wave movement as the latest urban impact, a musical and art movement in Serbia and the intire former Yugoslavia…

Vladan Cerovic, Director of the Belgrade Summer Festival