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FATHER AND SOLDIER (ТАТКО И ВОЈНИК)

SAMI, JO AND I (СЕМИ, ЏО И ЈАС)

THE SHIFT (СМЕНАТА)

BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE (БРИТ МАРИ БЕШЕ ТУКА)

SEKURITAS (СИГУРНОСТ)

HOPE (НАДЕЖ)

LYSIS (РАЗВРСКА)

HANNA’S HOMECOMING (ВРАЌАЊЕТО НА ХАНА)

CRONOFOBIA (ХРОНОФОБИЈА)

WHERE ARE YOU JOAO GILBERTO? (КАДЕ СИ ЖОАО ЖИЛБЕРТО)

Where are you, João Gilberto? sets out in the footsteps of German writer Marc Fischer who obsessively searched for the legendary founding father of Bossa Nova, Brazilian musician João Gilberto, who has not been seen in public for decades. Fischer described his journey in a book, Hobalala, but committed suicide one week before it was published. By taking up Marc Fischer’s quest, following his steps one by one, thanks to all the clues he left us, we pursue João Gilberto to understand the history, the very soul and essence of Bossa Nova. But who can tell whether we will meet him or not?

THE GRADUATION (LE CONCOURS)

With LE CONCOURS the director will delve into the daily life of the Parisian cinema school, la Fémis, where a specific Republican ideal of excellence is practiced and entry into which can be summed up as follows: “everyone’s equal, but only the best get in…” Through the admission process, the hard work all year and the graduation exams, LE CONCOURS will establish a portrait of our relationship to excellence in the Art world and of one of the most prestigious art school in France. A place of culture where generations intermingle.

DARK FORTUNE

GLORY(SLAVA)

HILTER'S HOLLYWOOD

The Nazi-cinema was a state-controlled industry, subject to rigid political and cultural censorship. At the same time, it aspired to be “Great Cinema”; it viewed itself as an ideological and aesthetic alternative to Hollywood. A German dream factory. This state-funded studio-based cinema followed industrial modes of production. It established its own celebrity star system and marketed itself with the latest, state of the art marketing techniques. The aim was to beat the US-cinema with its own tools. German cinema produced Nazi blockbuster of the likes of “Münchhausen”, as well as NS films d’auteur such as “Opfergang” (The Great Sacrifice). Nazi-cinema thought big. Technically, it was executed to perfection. Cinema was meant to educate and entertain. It was industrially pre-fabricated to manipulate the people co-opt the masses, stir up sentiments of hatred and consent, self-sacrifice and moral cowardice. Perhaps, the feelings evoked by these films were feelings of self-delusion, false feelings. It is only in this vein that the impact of Nazi cinema can be understood. It was popular and satisfied the desires of large sections of society. In its days, millions of people flocked to the cinemas. How much Hollywood is there in Hitler’s dream factory?

MILLENNIALS

This film follows its two protagonists Anne and Leo like a wandering companion. Both in their early thirties, they are close friends but not a couple. What connects them is their urban background and their cosmopolitan attitude. Where they differ is their completely diverging approach to the little things in life. Their days and nights are full of possibility and yet nothing presents itself as inevitable. Anne is a successful director pursuing her career with singleminded determination. But she doesn’t have much of a social life. Leo’s head is in the clouds. He wants to be a photographer and is yearning to love and be loved. Their personal encounters and inspirational adventures cause them to realise the limitations of their varying approaches to life. Millennials is an atmospheric trip into the ‘sentimental education’ of two individualists that describes both their failures and their moments of personal happiness. An urban fairy-tale with a documentary feel, suspended in a strange limbo and oscillating between the here and now and a sophisticated narrative structure.

OUR LAST TANGO (UN TANGO MÁS)

GOLIATH

Jonathan Vogel (Guillaume Depardieu) would like to turn back the clock and undo the accident that led to his disability and destroyed his life. When he learns that Stivlas Karr (Carlo Brandt), a well-known professor and geneticist, has developed a gene therapy for regenerating the human body, he makes an appointment with him for some clinical tests. But the therapy doesn’t go according to Professor Karr’s plan and leads to unexpected results. Jonathan, whose life is now in danger, has become aware that there is only one person who can help him: Alice (Alysson Paradis), the professor’s daughter.

THE CONSTITUTION

JONATHAN

THE BLACK HEN (KALO POTHI)

We are in the year 2001, a temporary ceasefire brings a much-needed break to a small war-torn village in Northern Nepal, bringing much joy among the residents. Prakash and Kiran, two young close friends, are also starting to feel the change in the air. Though they are divided by caste and social creed, they remain inseparable, and start raising a hen given to Prakash by his sister, with hopes to save money by selling her eggs. However, the hen goes missing. To find it, they embark on a journey, innocently unaware of the tyranny brought by the fragile ceasefire.

CLEAN HANDS

XENIA

Strangers in their own birthplace, 16-year-old Danny and 18-year-old Odysseus cross the entire country in search of their Greek father, after their Albanian mother passes away. Determined to force him to acknowledge paternity, little do they know that the road to the much-coveted Greek citizenship is paved with ghosts from the past, adult savagery and a dream that needs to come true, no matter what. Reaching the end of this initiatory journey they eventually come of age even if Greece refuses to follow.

THE CIRCLE

SONG OF MY MOTHER

N: THE MADNESS OF REASON

I AM NOT HIM

CORN ISLAND

A BLAST

VIOLETTE

IDA

THE JAPANESE DOG

When a flood strikes Costache’s village in Romania, his wife Maria and all of their possessions are swept away. Now in a village shelter, Costache refuses to sell his land and move onward. He has plans to re-build and refuses help and advice from his neighbors. The village is all he has left, except for an estranged son now living in Tokyo. But when his son Ticu hears of his mother’s death and father’s plight, he arrives unexpectedly with his Japanese wife and son to bring Costache back home with him. This will not be simple. Ticu fled Romania with many issues left unresolved, the biggest being his relationship with his father. Now there is a whole new family for Costache to deal with, old scores to settle, and painful goodbyes to say.

A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE

A young farmer named Sasha stands at the beginning of a new, happy life. The state is buying up land from small landowners. For Sasha, this is a chance to escape the potato farm he has grown tired of, and return to the city, taking along his beloved Anna (a clerk in the local land administration department). But once the deal is closed and the farm is doomed, the local villagers suddenly rise up in protest. They convince Sasha, the â€˜bossâ€™, to come to their aid and save the farm â€“ the villageâ€™s only means of survival.Sasha is touched by the villagersâ€™ eagerness to cast him in the role of a local leader and object of their love and hope. He tries his best to help the villagers. But when he puts the brakes on the transfer of the farm to the state, local officials view it as a symptom of schizophrenia, and his girlfriend takes it as his refusal to share a life in the city with her. Sasha finds himself caught up in a fight which is not his, entangled in a web of passion, pride, and irreversible actions.

GARE DU NORD

THE GAMBLER

SHANGAI BELLE

MY DOG KILLER

JOЕ`S NEIGHBORHOOD

MAN VS.TRASH

ZORAN, MY NEPHEW THE IDIOT

Paolo, passes his days dragging himself between drinking sessions in the local bar with his friends, an unsatisfying job and an infantile stalking of his ex-wife. One day, he comes across his nephew Zoran, a curious boy of fifteen, born and raised in the mountains along with an aunt that Paolo did not know to have. After her death, Paolo is the only person who can take care of the boy. Thanks to the wise man owner of the Paolo’s usual bar, he discovers that Zoran has a bizarre and unexpected gift: he is a real champion in playing darts. This is an opportunity for Paolo to take a revenge against the world. But things do not always develop as we would like them to.

THE CLOSED CIRQUIT

CRAWL

DOMESTIC

KEEP SMILING

THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO

Two filmmakers leave to Macao in an adventure of discovery of a city-labyrinth, multicultural and mysterious, where the memories of the childhood – featured memories by the lived reality in Macao – have a dialog with the memories of the East built by the codes of the cinema and the literature – memories lived on a featured reality-, creating a testimony which tries to raise the veil on the past and the present time. A personal album of physical and emotional geography, structured as an investigation disguised as a thriller, where the puzzle of the history challenges the reality.

LIFE IS NOT A PIECE OF CAKE

A tragi-comedy about a family coming to terms with bereavement: after his wife has died in an accident, Markus FÃ¤rber is alone with his teenage daughter Kim. Both are not able to cope with the death of their wife and mother. Markus is hiding behind brave phrases, Kim behind her gothic make-up. While Markus clings to the past, fifteen-year-old Kim runs away to Denmark, where the family used to spend their vacation together. Alex, a school drop-out, accompanies her. Grandma Gerlinde, her lively caretaker, Paula, and Markus set off to search for Kim, embarking on a journey of self-discovery. This is a film about death, but much more about the guts to take on life, about family and about love in many forms.

THE FIFTH SEASON

SNEAKERS

FUTURE LASTS FOREVER

Sumru is doing music researches at a university in Istanbul. To work on her thesis on gathering and recording an exhaustive collection of Anatolian elegies she sets off for the south-east of the country for a few months. The brief trip turns out to be the longest journey of her life. During the trip, Sumru crosses paths with Ahmet, a young guy who sells bootleg DVDs on the streets of Diyarbakir, with Antranik, the ageing and solitary warden of a crumbling church in the city and with various characters who witness the ongoing ‘unnamed war’. During her three-month stay in Diyarbakir, while she was looking for the stories of the elegies, she finds herself to confront an agony from her own past.

SOUND OF NOICE

The narrative revolves around police officer Amadeus Warnebring, tone-deaf scion of a distinguished musical family, and his attempts to track down a group of six guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city. The drumming set pieces correspond to an avant-garde score with four hilariously titled movements. Where the short involved the six drummers imaginatively using standard apartment furnishings as their instruments, the feature unleashes them on an unspecified city’s civic and cultural institutions. Including an amusing backstory for each of the soberly dressed drummers as well as their nemesis, music-hating investigator Warnebring, the film creates a treat for the eyes and ears from the dull, repetitive sounds of everyday life.

VOICE OVER

The end of the 70s. Anton Krastev, a DOP and his wife Diana are separated by the Iron curtain – she fled with their son Antoan to Western Berlin while he stayed in Bulgaria. She believes that Antoan can only be cured in Germany. But Anton can’t live without his job. He works with the best film director who is a high ranking Communist. The State Security Services are keeping a zealous eye on Anton. His phone calls are being taped, his letters are being read. His close relations to the power people of the day make him even more suspicious. The State Security Services put an end to Anton’s relation with his wife. Thorn apart, Anton and Diana go through love, alienation and hate. There comes a time though when the powerful friends of Anton lose their power and he loses everything that he’s ever loved – his work, his wife and son. Thirty years later Anton shoots the story of his own life. But those who now direct the movie are the very same people who once persecuted him.

HERE & THERE

HOUSE

Stone by stone, Imrich is building a small house for his daughter Eva almost entirely on his own. But for Eva, who is about to graduate from school, the prospect of moving into the house is about as appealing as being imprisoned in a jail she herself has helped to build. She has very different plans for her future. Her grumpy, stingy, controlling father has already broken with Evaâ€™s sister, Jana, after she got herself involved with a scoundrel with whom she now has three children. So the father is twice as vigilant with Eva, but she still manages to indulge in a few little freedoms: skipping school for a couple of days, doing little jobs to save up cash for the trip she longs to make to London, and an affair with an older man who turns out to be her English teacher…

WEDDING FEVER IN CAMPOBELLO

A TOWN CALLED PANIC

Animated plastic toys like Cowboy, Indian and Horse have problems, too. Cowboy and Indian’s plan to surprise Horse with a homemade birthday gift backfires when they destroy his house instead. Surreal adventures take over as the trio travel to the center of the earth, trek across frozen tundra and discover a parallel underwater universe where pointy-headed (and dishonest!) creatures live. Each speedy character is voiced — and animated — as if their very air contains both amphetamines and laughing gas. With panic a permanent feature of life in this papier mÃ¢chÃ© town, will Horse and his girlfriend ever be alone?

LOURDES

SNOW WHITE THE SEQUEL

An irreverent look at what happened the morning after Snow White married Prince Charming. Did they find marital bliss? Or was the Prince a bounder who would jump into bed with the first girl who came along? Picha’s fourth animated movie is definitely not for children or nostalgic adults, but teenagers and young adults will love it. The film starts where the Brothers Grimm and everyone else left off. Snow White married Prince Charming… but thatÂ´s when the Good Fairy decided she wanted the Prince for herself, and it was all DOWNHILL from there. How could poor Prince Charming cope with Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, when he was already married to the most beautiful, innocent woman in the Kingdom? And how would Snow White survive the scurrilous attention of herÂ´dear little friendsÂ´ the Seven Dwarves, while her husband was off doing his princely duty? A new take on a dozen fairy-tales featuring characters we have all known and loved … until now.

MIDSUMMER MADNESS

Janu Nakts (St. John’s Night) is a traditional Latvian celebration during which family and friends gather to build bonfires, barbecue, drink and generally have a good time. According to legend, lovers and those who would like to fall in love, can search the woods for the “magic fern” on this night. This magic fern serves as the focus and pivotal point of the six stories in “Midsummer Madness” It is also a metaphor for the film’s underlying theme – finding love. “MIDSUMMER MADNESS ” is reflected in the recurring element of the magic fern, a metaphor (both in the film and in real life) for love. The question posed by the film is: can a search for love ever be successful? Each story deals with this question. An answer is provided at the film’s conclusion in a humorous and unforgettable way: we see the legendary fern, glowing magically in a meadow. It exists after all! Then a cow ambles along and eats it.

THE WAY BEYOND

Jonathan Vogel (Guillaume Depardieu) would like to turn back the clock and undo the accident that led to his disability and destroyed his life. When he learns that Stivlas Karr (Carlo Brandt), a well-known professor and geneticist, has developed a gene therapy for regenerating the human body, he makes an appointment with him for some clinical tests. But the therapy doesnâ€™t go according to Professor Karrâ€™s plan and leads to unexpected results. Jonathan, whose life is now in danger, has become aware that there is only one person who can help him: Alice (Alysson Paradis), the professorâ€™s daughter.

A REAL LIFE

TRAPPED

This epic drama based on true events tells the story of Anton a young Irishman returning home to his loving wife Maria and his family after five years at sea. In his absence the troubles in Northern Ireland have worsened and his childhood friend Brendan ( Andy Smith), persuades him that he must join the cause and fight the British. Very soon he is involved in a brutal murder, but when he tries to abandon the cause, his comrades wonâ€™t allow it. Whether he likes it or not there is no way back and no way forward.

WONDERFUL AND LOVED BY ALL

Bella is a self-declared actress but with a rather small list of achievements. She is pushing forty, constantly broke and has very little else to show for herself. Not much is going her way, so one day she decides to be a little creative in a CV she sends around, pretending she has developed acrobat skills. Good for her, Ingmar Bergman is precisely looking for a gymnast actress able to perform serious acrobatics for his new play. Bella gets the role of her life, but her small lies will lead to big consequences…