22. november, thursday / 18:00h
Me and my life without some things
Macedonia/Romania 2007 40 min
Directed by: Ilija Piperkovski
Screenplay by: Ilija Piperkovski
Ilija Piperkoski was born in 1969 in Ohrid, Macedonia.
Filmography: "Why I did my first sin"
Содржина/Плот
Macedonian director Ilija Piperkoski, who studied in Bucharest, made his first movie "Me and my life without some things" by following the journey of Dumitru Dragosh, 22 years-old Gipsy, through Romania, who is trying to find his father. Search finishes completely unexpected, but through it we can find distressful life story of Dragosh who after all won't loose his cheerfulness and decisiveness.
19. november, monday / 18:00h
Bad blue boys
Croatia, 2006, 28 min.
Directed by: Branko Schmidt
Screenplay by: Branko Schmidt
Produced by: 4 Film Ltd.
Содржина/Plot
This film speaks about the impossibility of Croatian war veterans to socialise into today Croatian society, due to the fact that in Croatia – a country in transition in which the unscrupulous capitalism rules, only a few understand their illness and their needs.
Branko Schmidt was born in 1957 in Osijek, Croatia. After studying Economics, he enrols the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, Film and TV Directing Department.
“Hawk Did Not Love Him, 1988, “Djuka Begovic”, 1991, “Six Seconds for Life”, 1992, “Memento of Vukovar”1993, “Vukovar is Going Home”, 1994, “Christmas in Vienna” 1997, “Mass for the New Life”, 1998, “Heart is not Trendy”, 1999, “Queen of the Night”. 2001, „Melon Route“ , 2006.
17. november, saturday / 18:00h
I'll Kill Ya / Ubil bum te
Croatia, 2006, 30 min
directed by: Nikola Strasek
screenplay by: Nikola Strasek
produced by: ADU Zagreb
Содржина/Plot
I'll Kill Ya' was made as a student's practice at 3rd year of Film and TV direction at the Academy of Drama Arts. Film sheds light to a tragic event that happened in Zagreb on Christmas Eve 1998 - event that lasted only few seconds, but with life long consequences. Trial and serving the penalty lasted almost 10 years. Nikola Strašek spent 2 years with protagonists collecting intriguing, extravagant and sometimes shocking materials.
Nikola Strašek was born in Zagreb in 1978. He finished Classical Gymnasium, studied comparative literature and Latin at Faculty of Philosophy, and is currently finishing Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb, TV and Film Direction.
19. november, monday / 18:00h
Mirror, mirror
Kosovo, 2006, 30 min
Directed by: Blerta Basholli
Screenplay by: Blerta Basholli, Sevdije Kastrati, Antoneta Kastrati
Produced by: Crossing Bridges
Blerta Basholli was born in 1983. She graduated movie direction in Art’s Faculty in Pristina.
Filmography: Living under your breath” 2003, “Doing business in Kosovo 2005, “Mirror, mirror…” 2006.
Содржина/Plot
“Mirror, mirror” is a film about the Image of Women in the Kosovar Televisions, which explores, challenges and reflects the way women are represented in media. Following several teenage Kosovar girls and how they are influenced by the portrayal of women on TV, the film demonstrates how this representation affects young girls and women.
18. november, sunday / 18:00h
Snowdrops
Albania , 2006, 30 min.
Directed by: Robert Budina
Screenplay by: Robert Budina
Содржина/Plot
A man and a woman, 50 years old, in Tirana…She's very badly sick and could be saved in a hospital abroad. They just need a visa... but in Tirana, things are not that simple: sometimes, time is not only money, but lives...
21. november, wednesday / 18:00h
TENDER HEAT – Wild, Wild Beach
Russia / Germany 2006 125 min
directed by: Alexander Rastorguev, Vitaly Mansky and Susanna Baranzhieva
screenplay by: Alexander Rastorguev, Vitaly Mansky and Susanna Baranzhieva
produced by: Studio Vertov
Alexander Rastorguev
Born in 1971 in Rostov-upon-Don / Russia, where he studied philology at the State University. In 1994-2000 he studied filmmaking at the Academy of Theatrical Art in St.-Petersburg.“Good Bye, Boys”, 1997, “Draft Copy” 1997, Motherland”, 1998,”Your Roots”,My Century”, 1999,“The Mountain”,“Mummies”, 2001,“Maundy Thursday”, 2002
Vitaly Mansky
Born 1963 in Lvov / Ukraine. He graduated from VGIK, Medinskij´s studio and became one of the most acclaimed contemporary Russian documentary filmmakers. “Lenin’s Body”, 1992,“Cuts of a Recurrent War”, 1993, “Etudes about Love”1995,“Gorbatchev. After Empire”,“Yeltsin. Another Life”,“Putin. Leap Year”,2001,“Broadway. Black Sea”, 2003”“Gagarin’s Pioneers”,2005
Vitaly Mansky
Susanna Barangieva has graduated from Journalistic Faculty of the Rostov-upon-Don State University / Russia. For a long time she has been working in the leading press of Armenia, and became one of leading journalists of the Republican press.This film is Baranzhieva’s debut as director.
Содржина/Plot
Every morning during the last 25 years beach, hereditary photographer Eugeniy and his camel, bought in Kalmyk steppe, are on their way to their habitual working place - beach at the Black Sea shore, a world of naked people.
To be more correct: NUDE people, in all meanings of this word – nominal as well as figurative.
The film shows a variety of characters, which shape a unique portrait of the state of the human world in which we live. Both irony and melancholy, cleanliness and meanness, love stories and betrayal, life and death are depicted in their development.
18. november, sunday / 18:00h
Chicken Election
Serbia, 2005, 52min.
Directed by: Goran Radovanovic
Screenplay by: Goran Radovanovic
Produced by: NAMA FILM
Goran Radovanović was born in Belgrade in 1957. He graduated History of Arts from the Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy.
Filmography: “Oktoberfest”, 1987, “Byzantium” 1988,
“East of Paris, Down the Danube From Vienna...”, 1991, “Hospitality of Abraham”, 1993, ”Columba urbica”, 1994, “Eastbyeastwest”, 1994, “We are here to stay”, 1996, “Second Circle”, 1998 ,”The Picture”,1999, “Teenage”, 1999, “My country – for internal use only” , 2000, “Model House”, 2000, “OTPOR: The Fight To Save Serbia”, 2001, “CASTING – A South East Europe Transition Film”, 2003,
Содржина/Plot
Chicken Election is a film about the contemporary society in rural Balkans. In this story an old Serbian peasant woman is trying to learn how to operate a used mobile phone given to her by her grandson, a local traffic policeman...
Chicken Election is funny, sad and beautifully ironic story about solitude, depopulation, about death before death...
21. november, wednesday / 18:00h
IN 4 YEARS
Croatia, 2006, 13min.
Directed by: Nebojša Slijepčević
screenplay by: Martina Globočnik, Nebojša Slijepčević
produced by: FADE IN
Nebojša Slijepčević was born in 1973. He is a film and TV director. Got his degree at Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb. From 2002 directs and produces for Croatian National TV documentary series Direkt about life of young people
Содржина/Plot
Twenty-six years old Damir, English literature student from Podsused, hopes that one day he will become a Hollywood star, the next Bruce Willis.
22. november, thursday / 18:00h
Sevdah - The Bridge that survived
Bosnia and Hercegovina, 2004, 60 min
Directed by: Mira Erdevicki
screenplay by: Mira Erdevicki
produced by: Arcimboldo Production
Mira Erdevicki was born in Yugoslavia in 1965 and educated at the Prague Film School between 1988 and 1993.
“The first 25 are the hardest “1991, “Actors in the Asylum “1993, “Karel‘s last Christmas at home”, 1993, “Foreigners in their own Country”, 1995, “Black and White in Colour”,1999, “Somewhere Better”, 2003., “The Man with an Opera House in his Living Room”,2003.
Содржина/Plot
Sevdah - The Bridge that survived celebrates amazing music and extraordinary characters from the heart of Bosnia. A Bosnian music group faced ethnic tensions and carried on playing in their town throughout the civil war. Now they symbolize the most optimistic aspects of their culture and are due to play at the reopening of the famous bridge.
17. november, saturday / 18:00h
SUGARTOWN: THE BRIDEGROOMS
Greece / Germany 2006 82 min
directed by: Kimon Tsakiris
screenplay by: Kimon Tsakiris
produced by: Bi-Optic and Anemon Productions
Kimon Tsakiris (*1974) holds an LLM in International Law with specialty in European Media (U.E.L) and a PhD in International Economics (University of Maastricht). He has studied filmmaking in the UK, Spain and the Netherlands.
“86.400 (The Day After?)”, 2004, “The Stranger”, 2004
Содржина/Plot
In the Greek village of Sugar Town, men have a serious problem. Women are fleeing the area in search of work or marriage in the big cities, leaving them behind- and lonely. Their cunning mayor promises the men to find them wives in order to get re-elected. He contacts the mayor of the Russian town of Klin, who gathers 100 young women looking for foreign husbands. Against the odds and local traditions which frown upon mixed marriages, the men from Sugar Town set out on a great journey to find their future brides.
20. november, tuesday / 18:00h
Voices of Bam
Netherlands, 2006 90min.
directed by: Maasja Ooms& Aliona van der Horst
screenplay by: Maasja Ooms& Aliona van der Horst
produced by: ZEPPERS FILM & TV
Aliona van der Horst was born in Moscow but grew up in the Netherlands. She studied documentary filmmaking at the Dutch Film and Television Academy. “The Lady with the White Hat”1997,”Chained” 1997” “The Little Red Box”1998; “After the Spring of '68” 200), a Dutch Academy Award winner for Best Documentary; “Hermitaz-niks” 2003, “Relieved” 2004
Содржина/Plot
The powerful earthquake that struck the ancient city of Bam in southeastern Iran on December 26, 2003, killed over 43,000 people, injured 20,000, and left 60,000 inhabitants homeless. Inspired by snapshots uncovered in the rubble, which are the only remaining tangible reminders of life before the quake, the filmmakers almost seem to be overhearing the city's inhabitants, who try to go on with their lives one year later. The grief and guilt expressed by the survivors strike a universal chord, and the indomitable life force they embody is unforgettable.
Born in 1968, Maasja Ooms studied Photography at the Dutch Academy of Arts and the Dutch Film and Television Academy. She has worked with van der Horst since The Lady with the White Hat. Ooms was the cinematographer for many documentaries, and in 2003 she started co directing documentaries.
