Two cousins, 21-year-old Yusuf and 19-year-old Ambar, take
the family car to attend a traditional family wedding out of
town. But what is supposed to be a one-day trip in fact
takes three. Along the way they get high and lost, encounter
interesting and...
Helped by her friend Otilia, a student, Gabita, wants to end
an unwanted pregnancy. It is 1987 and abortions are banned
in Romania. They have to find someone to do it illegally
and, if possible, cheaply. Everything is ready, but nothing
goes according to...
In the 1960s, Jude, a dockyard worker, travels to the US to
find his estranged father. There he falls in love with Lucy,
a teenager. When her brother Max is forced to fight in the
Vietnam War, they both get involved in peace...
J.B. Tito, the leader of the Yugoslavian partisans, in order
to paralyse rebel activities on the territory of Yugoslavia.
The film is inspired by the line “I always will be and
I always have been” taken from Arthur Schopenhauer‘s On
Death, a book that was...
People of the big city of Vienna. Lonely people, whose dogs,
rats, rabbits and other pets serve as their only
conversation partners, lifelong companions, cuddling
partners and bedfellows.
It won the Best Documentary Award at the Potsdam Film
Festival in 1996.
Director's Statement:...
trip from a backcountry Bosnian village to Croatia’s
capital becomes a journey beyond everyday life for
14-year-old Armin, and even more so for his father. A German
film crew arrives in Zagreb to shoot a film about the recent
civil war. An audition for...
A mystic form of a dialogue through the live medium presents
an ethical conflict here and raises the question of the
stability of the ethical dimension of marginal values.
England, 1935, the hottest day of the year. Against the
background of WW II, Briony with her family live a life of
wealth and privilege in a huge Victorian-Gothic mansion.
They gather for the weekend and, as a result of the
unbearable heat, dangerous and dark...
Matilde is a nun and she is convinced that faith can work
miracles. Elena is an anorectic mother who is ashamed of her
daughter’s obesity. Her husband, Gustavo, a professor of
architecture, can no longer stand his wife’s sharp bones
that he feels in intimate closeness...
A beautifully ordinary story of love and coming out takes
place in a lower class social setting. Teenagers Jamie and
Ste are friends and neighbors in a housing estate in
London’s East End. The boys, their relatives and people
around them, all have to...
Bai Xumei, a young student, is cheated and sold as a
“bride” by illegal traders in a remote mountain village
in the north of China. The raped and battered woman leads
a life of a sexual slave and child bearer, with no hope of
escaping because of backward...
The coast of Brittany. Anne is surrounded by piles of boxes
after she has moved into a big, old house. She is alone. Or
is she? Former husbands, lovers, her children, mother, and
father, and ghosts all emerge from the boxes, looking
confused. There were...
Brothers, Let Us Be Merry.
Director’s statement:
“Brothers, let us be merry, bravely defy your troubles”
is from the slave’s song in Mozart’s Zaide. It
accompanies two dimly lit men indulging in a purposeless
pleasure: They masturbate as if someone had ordered them...
May 1999. A NATO military train under the command of US
Captain Jones is crossing Romania. It is heading for the
Serbian border where radar is to be installed to monitor the
conflict between Serbia and Kosovo. The tough but
fair-minded Jones is suddenly...
The new retro film by Alexej Balabanov caused a stir in
Russia this year. Cargo 200 deals with Afghan war trauma and
Soviet madness. A complex story about a multiple rape, total
alcoholism, necrophilia, maniacal policemen and brutal
murders. It speaks about how the...
The main character of this story is an eleven-year-old girl
from an underprivileged family and industrial background who
is slowly finding out about (growing up) a serious emotional
disease in her own family. She is still not aware, though,
that this will mark her...
The life and death of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of
the legendary post punk band, Joy Division. Curtis, torn by
his family life, increasing fame, and love for another
woman, committed suicide on May 18, 1980 at the age of
twenty-three on the...
The film follows the private lives of two Chinese gays
living in London. Mel enjoys the carefree life of a desired
playboy and makes tremendous efforts at (almost)
successfully avoiding deeper emotional relationships. But he
is slowly coming to realize that youth and beauty...
Six male figures emerge from the darkness. Just like
specters, they ascend from the bowels of a deserted swimming
pool. Waiting for one another. The darkness sets them free,
rouses their passions.
We are offered an insight into the most intimate inner
recesses of men....
Delivery is a story about an old hermit living in a dark
industrial city. One day he receives a mysterious package
which gives him undreamed-of power to change his
environment...
Three short stories about three different women. It’s
Christmas time and each finds herself in a new life
situation and environment which is far from an ideal
backdrop to the Christmas holidays. In their own way, all
three of them avoid the traditional Christmas...
This documentary presents the life and work of a film
painter and poet, the unconventional British director Derek
Jarman who was a predecessor to and later the main
representative of the so called New Queer Cinema –
independent gay films of the 1990s. The...
In principle, love between two women must be harmonious.
It’s a personification of tenderness and perfect mutual
understanding. This is one of the optimistic and rosy
perceptions of lesbian relationships. And no wonder. The
common audience is usually fed with romances, melodramas and
genre films...
It's a hot, stifling weekend in the suburbs of Vienna
somewhere between the autobahn and the exit roads, the
hypermarkets and new housing estates. During these dog days
of summer six interwoven stories reveal a world of
disillusionment and lonely souls. The days are...
Graduation marked the end of their high school days but not
their friendship. Iška, Vendula and Karolína decide to
fully enjoy their last holidays together. They find summer
jobs in Holland, a country with a cool atmosphere, money
and everybody smoking marijuana... Eventually, they end up
as...
The mysterious and charismatic Nikolai is a driver for one
of London’s most notorious crime families of Eastern
European origin. It is headed by Semyon, the charming owner
of an exclusive restaurant. However, his smiling face hides
a brutal and cold-blooded mind. The family...
A video composed of a static, unedited shot of the flag on
the front of the US Embassy in Bratislava. The idea of the
film is based on the east-west direction of the building,
which is perceived as a symbol: the flag is moved by...
A dramatic story based on the novel of the same name by the
novelist, playwright, film screenwriter and director (Sweet
Time of Kalimagdora) Leopold Lahola, in which the author
tries to find the principle of humanity. The plot takes
place during a day at...
Argentino Vargas played the central figure in Los Muertos,
the character of a mysterious murderer. He isn’t an actor;
he is an ordinary man from the jungle, a peasant. Now he
finds himself in the heart of busy Buenos Aires, in the
gigantic San...
Walking through the streets of Paris, seven-year-old Simon
is followed by a mysterious red ballon all the way home.
Obsessed with puppets, his mother Suzanne is just preparing
a new puppet show and she is so wrapped up in her creative
activities that she...
Created in a climate of nostalgia and magic realism, it is a
story about a town over the sea, about a little boy and his
eccentric grandfather. The old man collects sounds which he
seals in tins as a way of saving memories....
The story of Four takes place on a spring day in 1937. The
afternoon is filled with nostalgia, the island inhabitants
are walking along the shore, waiting for a concert of a
popular singer. In this time and space the stories of Hana,
a...
One day at Europapark, the largest amusement park in
Germany. Ms. Spohler – Claussen of Hannover, the world
champion of amusement park visitors, gives a tour past
eternally smiling visitors and employees eternally sweeping
up cigarette butts.
Director’s Statement:
“The film is a...
Josie is a harmless weirdo – at least that’s what his
neighbours think. No wonder, since he spent his adolescence
as a guard at an old petrol station on the periphery of
a small town in the middle of Ireland. At first glance, he
seems to be...
Glastonbury is a small town (population: 8,800) in Somerset,
England, situated about 30 miles south of Bristol. It is
known for its history, myths and legends and it became
famous worldwide through the Glastonbury Festival which
takes place at Worthy Farm, six miles east...
A cruel gangster and her money-driven daughter, who set
their greedy eyes on a rich man, form the opening sequence,
followed by other, more or less crazy and unpredictable
events, climaxing in an unprecedented disaster which
threatens to change history. And this is the...
Nedim is in the last stages of cancer and does not want to
die in Germany but in his native Bosnia. He does not have a
proper visa for entering Slovenia so he is not allowed to
cross the Slovenian border. Amir is...
This film is about newspaper salesmen in their yellow
uniforms: young men from India, Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey
who sell newspapers in Vienna. Here is the newspaper
salesman’s world, there is the reader’s world in their
Austrian living rooms. It is about modern slaves...
Two million ethnic Koreans live in China. Cui Shunji is one
of them. Together with her son she rents a small room by the
railway, in the middle of a neighbourhood of prostitution
and violence. Her husband is in prison. But the surrounding
filth...
Forty-something Viktor, a man in “the worst years”,
accidentally saves a young woman from committing a suicide.
It turns out that Mia studies photography and it’s
possible that she didn’t really want to end her life.
Maybe she just wanted to take a photograph...
Ever since Hallam Foe’s mother drowned, one question has
been haunting him: was this an accident or is somebody
responsible for her death? The boy is convinced that the
second option is true and suspects his attractive stepmother
Verity to be the culprit. To...
Attila is a young man of Roma roots, who was raised in
a children’s home and upon reaching adulthood enters
everyday reality without the necessary life skills. He
searches documents about his biological family in the belief
that the information will help him find his place...
A slideshow of pictures of children from the Third Reich,
eventually forming a group of Hitler Youth, against the
background of the hymn-like song Heal the World performed by
Michael Jackson with a message of peace and a better world.
According to an old Slavonic myth, when God created the
Earth, he gave beauty to his angels so that they would
spread it around the land. The youngest of the angels wanted
to take a shortcut across a range of high mountains. But
the burden was...
Everyday household objects are part of our routines,
automatic moves, trivial actions or rituals. They are all
around us, watching us quietly.
No one ever notices them. But, they do possess some secret
potential...
Like most of us, Bob Dylan hasn’t just been one person. He
has never ceased to change – musically, physically and
intellectually. But, unlike most of us, Dylan’s changes
have been played out on the international scene, within
social shifts and with cultural and...
Import: Olga, a young nurse in Ukraine, looks for a better
life in the West. She emigrates to Austria and becomes a
cleaning lady in a geriatric hospital, where an 82-year-old
patient proposes to her.
Export: Paul, a young Austrian ex-security guard, is...
The latest film by Steve Buscemi is a remake of a famous
film by the murdered Dutch director Theo Van Gogh. It spins
a fascinating yarn about an interview which a cynical
political journalist and war reporter has to make. The
problem lies in...
Even though Angie doesn’t have the necessary education,
she is intelligent, ambitious and energetic, always putting
the maximum into her actions. Her life is quite a mess,
though, and her problems make her tired. Suddenly, however,
there is a possibility to change everything. Seizing the
chance, she...
On his way to deliver a sealed envelope, a messenger takes a
look at a beautiful woman. He starts to sing “You women”
by Julio Iglésias while trying to find his way through
Paris. A man, walking around the district, catches the
messenger singing....
A desperate man, working in a genetic research institute, is
searching for records that should explain the origin of a
cerebral disease, the cause of his daughter’s recent
death. A parallel story presents a detective, Erlendur, as
he is beginning his investigation into the...
The story is set in present-day Tel Aviv. Keren breaks her
leg during her wedding reception, which puts an end to their
plans of travelling to the Caribbean for their honeymoon.
An unknown little girl walks out of the sea. Keren follows
her...
Film as a confessional. People go to church and sit alone in
the pew, pray to Jesus who represents everything for them
– father and friend, saviour and rescuer, a signpost and a
Wailing Wall. He is their voice, their silence, the one...
Filmmaker Julien Temple chronicles the transformation of a
self-described ”mouthy little git,” born John Mellor,
into an anti-establishment icon known to the world as Joe
Strummer. In his latest documentary, Temple uncovers the
myth behind the front man of the seminal punk band, the
Clash....
The beginning of the summer season. A group of four
secondary school students spends most of their time together
between exercising and parties. They know that all of them
share the same fixed idea, a common goal – to “do it”
for the first time....
Azat travels from one village to another making other people
miserable. He is a detestable man with not a bit of
goodness in him. He is a liar who makes use of tears or
a knife to steal from and rape naive, vulnerable people. He
makes women, old...
Winter 1992. Sepp, a widower lives in a small Austrian
village, close to the Czech border. The food supply that his
deceased wife stocked in the freezer is running low. Thus it
is time for Sepp to search for another wife. He looks...
In 2000, a Czech traveller found a suitcase in Sweden with
only 22 carefully wrapped rolls of film. When he developed
them back in Prague, he discovered that they contained 756
photographs of seven unidentified people from Asia on their
journey through Scandinavia. Documentary...
In 1990 on the Australian coast an Indonesian barge comes
ashore bearing men from Cambodia and Iraq who illegally
disembark. However, the boat shipwrecks and the pirates join
a small group of refugees. The coast is part of a vast
desert - a no...
A dark love story that takes place in Shanghai during the
Japanese occupation in the 1940s. The main character is a
Chinese student whose revolutionary fervor is undermined by
her sexual dependence on a collaborator whom she is supposed
to hand over to the...
Little Magnus suffers from a latent malignant lung disease
and therefore plays bizarre games to cheat death. Ten years
later, modern medicine cures his illness, but his death wish
continues. After his second suicide attempt, finally, his
father’s conscience awakens. He tries to convince...
An animated film about different-ness and the lack of
tolerance in a family environment. It is the story of a
child who falls into excrement, which makes the child’s
skin black. The family wants to cover it up and destroy this
different-ness.
A short film without dialogue about waiting for death. From
the moment the rope is put around his neck to the moment it
is tightened, the soldier can see the fateful events of his
last days.
A year-end cinematographic assignment on Dreams, Fantasy
and Reality.
On a hot summer day, five adolescents go to cool off near a
river. Whilst we observe their behavior within the group,
the apparently calm day starts to be disrupted. A poetic
short film, without dialogue, about a seemingly harmless and
innocent day.
A long shot of a wind power station propeller in the middle
of the screen. The sun is rising and the wind begins to
blow. A picture of a tent and people who start moving. The
tent is being blown away. A picture...
The main character knows he is Michael Jackson. As far as he
can remember, he has always been Michael Jackson, but,
unfortunately, his music and dance choreographies in the
streets of Paris are nowhere near as successful as his
idol’s. One day he meets...
Vivian, Lisa, Tanja. Three women, three models, three
friends. Always trying to make a career, to be loved, to
find the right man, to achieve the ideal body. They go from
casting to casting; talk for hours on the phone with
girlfriends, men, mothers...
Mum ‘n’ Dad offers a voyeuristic look at the life of an
older couple living in an ordinary flat in Sarajevo. The
lives of the husband and wife are determined by conventions
and everyday routine – morning coffee, watching
television... Dad is still in...
Young Pakistani Omar is torn between two possible attitudes
towards the life of an immigrant in England. One is
represented by his bitter father, an intellectual who keeps
his distance from the Western way of life. The other is
lived by his uncle who...
A short film where four people each get to tell the story of
their first time, an animated film based on documentary
interviews. We hear the people tell their stories in their
own words. All of these stories have one thing in common:...
India,
2009, 156' min.
Director: Zoya AkhtarZoya Akhtar, indická režisérka, začínala ako asistentka réžie (Bombay Boys, Dil Chahta Hai, Lakshya). Luck by Chance je jej celovečerným debutom.
