Director:  Luis Miñarro

Englisht title:  Falling star

Original title:  Stella cadente

2013/ Spain/ HD/ 105’/ Fiction/ Color

Synopsis

A story about Amadeo of Savoy's fleeting adventure in Spain, who was a dazzling shooting star that tried to modernize an "'impossible country". This film is a free and delirious reflection on the futility of power and the difficulty of establishing beauty.

Director:  Gejza Dezorz

Englisht title: Indian summer

Original title:  Babie leto

2013/ Slovakia/ HD/ 90’/ Fiction/ Color

Synopsis

Autumn will be hot. To the town, lost somewhere at the end of the world, the Indian summer comes back again. Moreover, Biely comes back from prison. After ten years in prison he comes home, to native Košice, just for one thing. To revenge on his former companions for stolen honor, family youth spent behind the bars. And the wild ride through even wilder East, local underworld, Roma ghetto and side passages directly in the historical heart of the capital city of the Slovak periphery begins.

Director:  Signe Baumane

Englisht title:  Rocks in my pockets

2014/Latvia/ 88’/ Animation/ Color

Synopsis

Latvia, the late 1920’s. Anna, a young woman, pretty and educated, falls in love with an adventurous entrepreneur, 30 years her senior. But with marriage comes great jealousy, and the entrepreneur hides Anna away in the forest, far from other men, where she bears him eight children. The Great Depression hits them hard. Then Latvia is overrun with invasions by the Soviets, then the Nazis, then the Soviets once again. Anna is a pillar of strength, defying the hardships, raising her young, teaching them survival secrets of the forest. But something inside her is terribly wrong. Years later, Signe, a young artist, asks her father, “How did my grandmother die?” Her father is evasive. His seven siblings are evasive, as well. Signe strongly suspects that Anna committed suicide. Clues of mental illness had always leaked through the family stories. Signe suffers from depression herself. Three of her cousins, all women, battle madness, as well. Could there be a link between Anna and the four granddaughters? Defying the stigma that silences so many, Signe takes us on a journey deep into her own depression where she looks to confront the family demons. But, unlike her cousins, Signe finds an assuring guide in animation and art.

Director: Antonio Morabito

Englisht title:  The medicine seller

Original title: Il venditore di medicine

2013/ Italy& Czech Republic/ HD/ 103’/ Fiction/ Color

Synopsis

Bruno is a medical representative. His firm, ‘Zafer’, is going through a bad period. Bruno is ready to do anything not to lose his job: corrupt doctors, cheat on colleagues, betray the loyalty of those who are closer to him. Bruno is the last ring of the chain of bribery, an illegal practice that Zafer, as many other pharamceutical companies, practices in order to convince doctors to prescribe their medicines. And if a few doctors refuse to play this game, many of them do not refuse at all.