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Sweden, Montenegro | 2017 | 74’
A BALKAN NOIR
It has been five years since Nina’s daughter went missing and only during the cigarette breaks do we get to follow her hunt for the perpetrator as she returns to Montenegro for one last time. The story is told in 20 sequences. The characters hunt for the truth unfolds only when they smoke. Every scene begins with protagonist lighting a cigarette and ends when they put it out. One pack. 20 cigarettes. 20 scenes
Written & Directed
Drazen Kuljanin
Director of Photography
Anna Patarakina
Producer
Drazen Kuljanin (Sweden)
Co-producer
Nikola Vukcevic (Montenegro) Jonas Sörensson
Executive Producer
Veronika Drazic |
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Israel | 2016 | 112’
BENEATH THE SILENCE
1973. Six years after returning from the Six Day War with a battle shock, Menashe realizes he will never be the man he used to be before the war. He can’t communicate with his surroundings, and spends his days driving away in his red track for long hours. The young family he created collapses due to his lack of communication with his wife, Daphna, and their little son, Shlomi.
At a time when PTSD is still not recognized as a medical condition, Daphna, his wife, struggles to get help from the military in order to maintain her husband’s last bits of sanity, while 10 year-old Shlomi tries to understand what happened to his father and why he is different. When the Yom Kippur War breaks out, and Menashe is sent again to the battle field, the small family crumbles to the dust.
Director
Erez Mizrahi & Sahar Shavit
Producer
Erez Mizrahi & Sahar Shavit
Screenplay
Erez Mizrahi & Sahar Shavit
Cinematographer
Tomer Moneta
Editor
Erez Mizrahi
Cast
Leading Roles
Amos Tamam
Adva Bole |
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Turkey | 2016 | 97’
BLACK CROW
Sara (26) who is a famous Iranian actress lives in France for years. She has lost her contact with her family that she left in Iran when she immigrated to France when she was 17. One night when she comes back home after an award ceremony, she receives a letter form her father calling her to Iran. As her entrance to her country is prohibited because of the obscene scenes she took part in, she takes illegal ways to arrive her village in Iran. A dangerous long journey full of patience, which she will travers on the garrons through the foggy and snowy mountains, starts for her. Accompanied by the smugglers and a group of Turkish guides, will she be able to arrive her village to discover the mistery of her father’s letter?
Writer
Tayfur Aydin
Producer
Muslum aydin
Key Cast
Sebnem Hassanisoughi Aziz Capkurt
Sedat Culum |
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Albania, Greece | 2017 | 85’
DAYBREAK
Leta is in a difficult economic situation and has not been able to pay the rent for several months. When she and her one-year-old son are thrown out of their apartment, they move in with Sophie, an old, immobile woman whose daughter has just employed Leta as a caretaker. In order to keep her job and their new roof, Leta has to keep Sophie alive at any cost.
Producer
Gentian Koçi
Co-producers
Konstantina Stavrianou Rena Vougioukalou
Director of Photography
Ilias Adamis
Editing
Christos Giannakopoulous Bonita Papastathi
With
Ornela Kapetani Suzana Prifti
Kasem Hoxha
Festivals - Awards
Sarajevo Film Festival 2017
Stockholm Film Festival 2017
Warsaw International Film Festival 2017 |
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Bulgaria, Germany, Macedonia | 2017 | 103’
DIRECTIONS
At a meeting with his banker, a small business owner, who drives a taxi to make ends meet, discovers the bribe he will have to pay to get a loan has doubled. He wants to remain an honest man. The ethics board that reviewed his complaint about extortion now also wants its share of the action. In desperate anger, he shoots the banker and then himself. The incident sparks a major national debate on talk radio about how despair has taken over civil society. Meanwhile, five taxi drivers and their passengers move through the night, each in hope of finding a brighter way forward – a new direction.
Screenwriter
Stephan Komandarev
Simeon Ventsislavov
Producer
Stephan Komandarev
DoP
Vesselin Hristov
Art Director
Maria Koycheva
Costume Design
Zaklina Krstevska
Editor
Nina Altaparmakova |
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Bulgaria | 2016 | 97’
GLORY
Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker finds millions of leva on the train tracks. He decides to turn the entire amount over to the police, and the state rewards him with a new wristwatch, but soon the new watch stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, head of the PR department of the Ministry of Transport, loses Petrov’s old watch. And here starts his desperate struggle to get his old watch back, as well as his dignity.
Writing
Kristina Grozeva Petar Valchanov Decho Taralezhkov Photography
Krum Rodriguez
Editing
Petar Valchanov
Music
Hristo Namliev
Cast
Stefan Denolyubov Margita Gosheva Decho Taralezhkov Ana Bratoeva
Produced by
Kristina Grozeva Petar Valchanov
Co-producer
Graal Films Konstantina Stavrianou Irini Vougioukalou
Festivals - Awards
Nominated Golden Leopard - Locarno International Film Festival 2016
Don Quixote Award / Special Mention - Locarno International Film Festival 2016 Best International Feature Film - Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017
Best Balkan Film - Sofia International Film Festival 2017
Special Jury Award - Transilvania International Film Festival 2017 |
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Croatia | 2016 | 103’
MINISTRY OF LOVE
Krešo, a hapless biologist-turned-bureaucrat, lands the least desirable government job in Croatia: spying on war widows in order to cut off their pensions should they find new partners. But what his bosses, including his father-in-law, don’t know is that he just may be romance’s unlikeliest champion.
Writer
Pavo Marinkovic
Director of Photography
Simon Tanšek
Editor
Dubravko Slunjski Producers
Stanislav Babic Julietta Sichel
Cast
Stjepan Peric
Dražen Kühn
Ecija Ojdanic
Olga Pakalovic |
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Iran | 2017 | 77’
MOTHERING
MOTHERING is a film about two sisters who live in Yazd, a city located in the deserts of Iran. One of the sisters has abandoned her love and the other has been abandoned by hers…
Written
Roqiye Tavakoli
Producer
Siyavash Haghighi
Production Company
Aseman Honar
Co.Director of Photography
Morteza Gheidi
Editor
Hayedeh Safiyari
Cast
Nazanin Bayati
Houman Seyedi |
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Kosova | 2017 | 85’
UNWANTED
A lonely teenage boy, who lives in Amsterdam with his refugee mother from Kosovo, keeps getting into trouble while yearning for her acceptance. But the traumas caused by the war, which his mother initially hides away from him, turn his world upside down.
Festivals - Awards
Karlovy Vary IFF, East of the West Competition
Prishtina International Film Festival
Written
Edon Rizvanolli
Director of Photography
Danny Noordanus
Production Manager
Danielle Bremer
Co-producers
Annemiek van Gorp
René Goossens
Producer
Edon Rizvanolli
Starring
Adriana Matoshi
Jason de Ridder |
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