Bitolino

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Bitolino is an annual children theater festival held in August in organization of the Babec Theater, every year professional children theaters from all over the world participate in the festival. The main prize is the Grand Prix for best performance. The attendance for this festival has exceeded 10,000.

• Valentina Gramosli (Actress) 2016 ^[20]
• Yavor Zehirov (Puppet master) 2016 ^[20]
• Nikola Projchevski (Actor) 2016 ^[20]
• Jovan Ristovski (director) 2015
• Valentina Lutts (Director/Manager of Theatre "At Narva Gates") 2015^[21]
• Sonja Mihajlovska (Actor) 2015
• Bojana Artinovska-Trpcheska (Artist) 2014
• Valdet Rama (Director/Manager of Dodona Theater) 2014
• Boris Chorevski (Actor)-2014
• Sunchica Unevska (Journalist)-2013
• Şehsuvar Aktaş (Actor) – 2013
• Jasmina Vasileva (Actor)-2013
• Nada Kokotovich (Director) – 2012
• Petar Mirchevski (Actor) – 2012
• Aneta Blazevska (Journalist) – 2012

Grand Prix for Best Performance is the only award of the festival and is awarded to the best performance from the official competition. The award is decided by three-member international jury chosen from among world-renowned theatre artist and theoreticians. Laureates:

• 2012 – Tiyatrotem Theater (Istanbul, Turkey) for the performance We can't go on like this
• 2013 – David Zuazola Puppets Company (Santiago, Chile) for the performance Dirty Wing^[22]
• 2014 – Mala Scena Theater (Zagreb, Croatia) for the performance Funny Monster^[23]
• 2015- Ruti Tamir Mime and Puppet Theater (Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel) for the performance Four Fables and Queen ^[9]
• 2016- Theatre for children at Narva Gates (Saint Petersburg, Russia) for the performance The Little Prince ^[24]

The Grand Prix was not awarded in 2017 and 2018.