Short Film News (SFN)- The 5th edition of International Students Film and Theatre Festival SKENA UP is opened yesterday.

This event started whereas the city is still under the influence of the last week's election which results to the happiness of most people due to the victory of independence defenders of Kosovo from Serbia.
 
You can see the banners all over the city and most of the people do not know anything about this small student festival and love American films.

SKENA UP Festival is a festival includes variety of student works in film and theatre and every night it shows a feature film as a guest.

This year the festival dedicated to Mr. Faruk Begolli, the most famous film and Theatre director from Kosovo who died after a long battle with cancer this year.

Born in 1944 in the town of Peja, he was graduated at the Academy of Drama in Belgrade and was a key movie actor in the former six-republic Yugoslavia.

He returned from Belgrade to Kosovo in the late 80s and worked as a professor with Pristina University, Faculty of Acting and run the Dodona theatre.

He was Artistic Director of SKENA UP Festival from the beginning.

In the past editions some Iranian theatrical groups had participated in this event and this year also one theatrical group from Iran is in the festival but no Iranian films is participating in it.

It is obvious that the film section is more active and there are student films from America and Europe as well.

The competition section is started from today and it will continue its work till 27 November.