At the core of this festival lies a dedicated focus on the preservation of folk dances, traditional attire, and customs.

The primary aim is to ensure the enduring vitality of the traditional cultural values embedded in the lives of the people of Slavonia.

The costumes and the scenography are thematic so in that comes the beauty of shapes and colors of the garments and the sounds of tamburica and gaida to light.

The critique centered on the festival's longstanding exclusion of the folk cultures of ethnic minorities in Croatia in the period after the end of the Croatian War of Independence, particularly the exclusion of the Serb community's folklore groups, community which accounted for 15.50% of the entire population of Vukovar-Syrmia County at that time.

[4] Svetislav Mikerević, President of local Prosvjeta branch in Bobota, stated in an interview that "We are as well citizens of Croatia.