Open-air Film Festival

The 14^th edition of WatchOut! International Film Festival takes place from 18th to 21st of June 2025. 

This year, we invite filmmakers and film lovers to explore art’s impact and cinema’s role in shaping perspectives and inspiring change. In this edition, the power of positivity will echo, uniting the world and fostering hope. At a time when the world feels uncertain, when stagnation and numbness seem to overshadow progress, we turn to film and art as forces of transformation.

Through storytelling, creativity, and cultural expression, we believe in the ripple effect that cinema can create—sparking debate, shaping public opinion, and challenging the status quo.

As the world stands on the brink of change, art remains the miracle that can ignite transformation, harnessing the power of creativity and highlighting the influence of culture and art in reshaping politics, confronting crises, and building a better future for generations to come.

Join us at WatchOut! Film Festival 2025, where art becomes action, and cinema becomes the catalyst for change. 

The usual venue of the Festival for the evening screenings at 20:00h is the Аmphitheater in front of the Museum of Communist Party, Tetovo, North Macedonia. If the weather is bad, alternative venues are the cinema spacеs of Center LOJA.

The winners of the three competing categories will be invited in Tetovo during the opening ceremony of the festival. The festival will be accompanied by many side events such as workshops, discussions, afterparties, etc.

WatchOut! Tetovo Film Festival is organized by Center for Balkan Cooperation LOJA and funded by Goethe Institut – Skopje. Some segments of the Festival are supported by Kurve Wustrow.