A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On
Director: Gentian Koçi
Writer: Gentian Koçi
Producer: Gentian Koçi, Blerina Hankollari
Production company: ARTALB FILM
Co-production company: Graal Films
Albania, Greece
Two identical inseparable deaf-mute twin brothers in their forties, discover that due to a genetic disease, they will separately, but progressively and irreversibly go blind. Slowly immersing into an unbearable silenced darkness, not being able to see the world and each other anymore, the two brothers have to make a strong decision.
Balaur
Director: Octav Chelaru
Writer: Octav Chelaru
Producer: Radu Stancu, Ioana Lascăr, Livia Rădulescu
Production company: deFilm
Romania
Mrs. Ivanovici, a 35-year-old religion teacher and wife of the town priest, begins a relationship with Iuliu, an audacious 16-year-old student of hers. Iuliu starts confessing to the priest.
The Celts
Director: Milica Tomović
Writer: Milica Tomović
Producer: Vladimir Vasiljević
Production company: EED Productions
Co-production company: Meander
Serbia, Montenegro
In the middle of the country’s breakup, three generations, equally hilarious and deranged, attend a child’s costume birthday party.
Chemistry
Director: Adina Dulcu
Writer: Adina Dulcu
Producer: Tudor Giurgiu, Bogdan Crăciun
Production company: Libra Film Productions
Romania
An injury on the handball court pushes Ana to fight against the limits of her own body, but also against those of an entire corrupt society. This is the most important match of her career. Of her life.
Deskmate
Director: Ferit Karahan
Writer: Ferit Karahan, Gülistan Acet
Producer: Kanat Doğramacı
Production company: Rumeli Hisarı Mah
Turkey
At a repressive boarding school miles from anywhere, Yusuf’s(13) anxious to get his mysteriously sick friend to hospital. First, he’s thwarted by school bureaucracy, then, once this is overcome, by heavy snowfall. As they wait for roads to be cleared, teachers-students jostle to exonerate themselves from circumstances surrounding the boy’s mystery condition, revealing ruthless vendettas, hidden secrets in the process.
The Elegy of Laurel
Director: Dušan Kasalica
Writer: Dušan Kasalica
Producer: Jelena Angelovski
Production company: MEANDER FILM
Montenegro
The travels of a self-sufficient professor through several episodes of life and fantasy, in order to overcome contemporary narcissism.
Erasing Frank
Director: Gabor Fabricius
Writer: Gabor Fabricius, György Barathy
Producer: Gabor Ferenczy, Gabor Fabricius, András Muhi
Production company: Focusfox, Otherside Stories
Hungary
1983: Frank, an angry kid from the streets with “no future”. With his punk band he realizes that the state banned their music because their words are political. Frank escapes to a psychiatric ward where Hanna, a young enemy of the system, joins him. Medication mutes Frank, but words of freedom are louder.
Fiume o morte!
Director: Igor Bezinović
Writer: Igor Bezinović
Producer: Tibor Keser, Vanja Jambrović, Fabrizio Polpettini
Production company: Restart
Co-production company: La Bête, NOSOROGI
Croatia, France, Slovenia
In the aftermath of World War I, Italian poet D'Annunzio conquered and declared the city of Fiume as his independent micro-state which soon made the small town the most liberal place on Earth.
The Island Within
Director: Ru Hasanov
Writer: Ru Hasanov
Producer: Orkhan Tarverdizade
Production company: Coyote Cinema
Co-production company: Arizona Productions
Azerbaijan, France
Vitaly Pronin lives on the island of Kur Dili on the Azerbaijani-Iranian border, alone, with no electricity or running water. It used to be a prosperous Soviet animal farm up until the Caspian Sea rose and destroyed the bridge connecting it to the mainland. Vitaly, now 67 years of age, enjoys the dusk of his life on the island with thousands of feral horses until his solitude is interrupted by Seymour, an emotionally and physically abused international chess grandmaster.
May Labour Day
Director: Pjer Žalica
Writer: Pjer Žalica
Producer: Pjer Žalica, Aida Huseinović
Production company: FORUM Association for Art and Culture
Co-production: Propeler Film, A.S.A.P. Films, Staragara, Bascelik, Artikulacija Film
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro
Armin returns to his hometown where he is taken on a quest where truth liberates but at the same time binds and hurts.
Natural Light
Director: Dénes Nagy
Writer: Dénes Nagy
Producer: Marcell Gerő, Sára László
Production company: Campfilm
Co-production company: Novak Prod, Mistrus Media
Hungary, Belgium, Latvia
March 1943. A Hungarian soldier is sent on a mission where he witnesses a mass murder. NATURAL LIGHT is about making decisions in a morally ambiguous world.
Orchestra
Director: Matevž Luzar
Writer: Matevž Luzar
Producer: Petra Vidmar
Production company: Gustav Film
Slovenia
Events on wind orchestra tour should change band members lives, but they decide to sweep them under the rug.
Safe Place
Director: Juraj Lerotić
Writer: Juraj Lerotić
Producer: Boris T. Matić
Production company: Propeler Film
Co-production company: STARAGARA
Croatia, Slovenia
The family tries to save Damir from himself. The film takes place within 24 hours.
Summer night, half past ten
Director: Ivana Mladenović
Writer: Ivana Mladenović, Adrian Schiop
Producer: Jelena Mitrović, Ada Solomon
Production company: Film House Bas Čelik
Co-production company: Hi Film Productions
Serbia, Romania
Ana, a Serbian actress living in Romania, comes back to her hometown on the other bank of the Danube river to be the image of the music festival that celebrates the friendship between the two nations. But when she gets caught in political games, has a secret affair with a much younger boy and brings her Romanian friends for a provocative performance, nothing will go according to the plan.
War and War
Director: Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis
Writer: Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis, Elizampetta Ilia-Georgiadou
Producer: Yorgos Tsourgiannis
Production company: Horsefly Productions
Greece
Returning from war to attend his father’ s memorial ceremony, Ilias embarks on a journey for inner peace and reconciliation.
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The Enchanted Wanderer
Director: Babak Payami
Writer: Babak Payami
Producer: Hussain Amarshi, Charles Wachsberg, Elda Ferri
Production company: Payam Films Inc, Jean Vigo
Canada, Italy
It takes the Bolshevik revolution, Nazi takeover of Germany and Fascism in Italy to transform the young Azeri Jewish boy, Lev Nussimbaum into Essad Bey, the famous writer who understood nothing from love.
Streams
Director: Mehdi Hmili
Writer: Mehdi Hmili
Producer: Moufida Fedhila
Production company: Yol Film House
Co-production company: MPM Film, Tarantula Productions
Tunisia, France, Luxembourg/Belgium
Amel is released from prison after an adulterous affair. In the violent streets of Tunis, she seeks for her missing son.
The Voice of Amirah
Director: Khalifa Al-Thani
Writer: Khalifa Al-Thani
Producer: Mohammed Fakhroo
Production company: Doha Film Institute
Qatar
After Amirah’s vengeful half sister Assyah steals her private journal; secrets unravel, jeopardizing her pursuit of an education and ultimately force her into an unwilling marriage.
