The Balkan Snapshots Film Festival was created in 2006 to give an opportunity to independent filmmakers and artists to show their works to a Western audience.
The aim of the festival is to promote fresh local talent via a selection of conventional and unconventional works that address issues of identity and expression in creative ways. Works, often from first-time directors, that have the quality and the courage to go beyond the stereotyped topics (war, misery, no future...) that are so often associated with the Balkans and to break free from the geographical and historical boundaries that so often label the work of the artists developing in these European regions.

The second edition of the Balkan Snapshots Film Festival presents a selection of short films, documentaries and video-art made by young filmmakers and video artists from six of the Balkan regions (Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania).

The artists and works selected by Lokomotiva that are going to be presented on the Balkan Snapshots Film Festival are:

In short films category:

• Borjan Zafirovski - Alef (15:00 min) 
• Darijan Pejovski - Fifteen Seconds (17:40 min)
• Jane Altiparmakov - Geto 103 (11:05 min)

In video-art category:

• Hristina Ivanovska - What’s Behind (2:51 min)
• Mirna Arsovska - Emptiness is a warm gun (02:00 min) and LittleRedRiddingHood Shortcut (02:29 min)
• Boris Petrovski – Disfigurements (7:41min)
• Ivan Ivanovski – four short video animations: T’ rm, Crowd, Blink and  Mass hypnosis (total length3:22 min)
• Zaneta Vangeli - 3 music videos from the soundtrack of the exp. feature “The Judge”: Electric Jazz,  Hommage a Wagner and Men (total length10: 35 min)
• Natasa Dimitrievska – part of the video-art Unfinished Project (3:10 min)
  
   
  More information about the festival you can find on its official web-site:
  http://www.balkansnapshots.com/