BALKAN SELECTION
MARTINA MESTROVIC, TANJA VUJASINOVIC
CROATIA
A CAT IS ALWAYS FEMALE
Through a feminist lens, the filmmakers pay homage to their professor Marija Ujevic Galetovic – one of Croatia’s most important sculptors. Marija's life story and views are told through a combination of video footage and animation of her feminine sculptures.
LORÁND GÁBOR
ROMANIA
Aurel is trying to win his father’s recognition. One day while gathering firewood in the nearby forest he comes of age quite differently as he expected.
RADOSTINA NEYKOVA
BULGARIA
MARMALADE
Sometimes, if you want to become a hero, you just have to fly. Innovation handmade embroidery animation.
HARIS RAFTOGIANNIS
GREECE
PREMIER AMOUR
Two loners meet for the first time. Their dogs interact. Perhaps they do, too.
THANASIS NEOFOTISTOS
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
In a tram on Route-3, the Old Lady in the leopard dress treats the passengers with juicy oranges during a hot, but rainy day in the centre of Sarajevo. Nadja, the princess-teen in her pink hijab; Luka, the virgin bully; an Orthodox Priest; an old creepy man and many, many more ordinary people in this tram have nothing in common, but a juicy slice of orange. All except a shy, yet horny, teenager named Amar.
DIMITRIS TSAKALEAS, LIDA VARTZIOTI
GREECE
SAD GIRL WEEKEND
Three best friends are spending their last weekend together, since the two of them are leaving to study abroad. Sooner or later, they realize that goodbyes are hard.
MAJA NOVAKOVIĆ
SERBIA
The documentary depicts bittersweet life of two grannies living isolated on the hills of Eastern Bosnia. Nature is the entity with which grannies speak, listen to and respect. The film emphasizes the intangible cultural heritage, through the presentation of chants and rituals for taming the adverse weather, hail, and storm. It reflects the simplicity and purity of their way of life, as well as their painstaking work. The action of the fi lm is the everyday life in the countryside, which shows the caring and intimacy of the grannies, both in their mutual relations and in the relationship with nature. Poetic tone of the frames relies on references from genre scenes of realism paintings.
ERENIK BEQIRI
FRANCE, ALBANIA
THE VAN
The Van finally stops, the doors open and Ben comes out alive. A few more fights and he will be able to pay his way out of Albania, and hopefully, take his father with him.