11-13 April 2024, Budapest
Dragan Ristić was born in 1972 in Valjevo/Serbia.
He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Belgrade, Department of Management and Theatre Production, Radio and Culture. He graduated from the same University with a Master’s degree in “Theory of Drama Art and Media” in 1999. He is a founder of the band KAL—recognizable by its musical style Rock ‘n’ Roma—in which he appears as lead singer and guitarist. In addition to many years of music engagement and participation in numerous music festivals in the country and abroad, he was engaged in film and theatre as a producer, actor and composer. Engagement includes Emir Kusturica’s film Black Cat, White Cat (translation and music), Romani Theatre Raidna from Belgrade, Romani Theatre Vareso Aver from Budapest (the plays Jacques, or Obedience by Eugene Ionesco and Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca).
Dragan Ristić has been a director of The Romani Cultural Centre in Belgrade since 1998.
He has worked for Radio Belgrade’
