Chevalier – Sarajevo 21
Athina Rachel Tsangari tries to find Who’s the Best in General with a deadpan odd satire that dismantles masculinity and makes Greek Weird Wave to go feel-good. Special Jury Mention at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival.
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Saul Fia (Son of Saul) – Sarajevo 21
László Nemes masterfully recreates a Holocaust Inferno where you can’t escape and the only way to survive is through death. Special Jury Prize at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival.
Mustang – Sarajevo 21
Deniz Gamze Ergüven creates a "joyful" feministic fairytale that explores if teen rebelliousness and sexual awareness can survive in conservative Anatolia. Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival.
Viaje – Sarajevo 21 Kinoscope
Paz Fábrega creates a low-key romantic bittersweet journey where a boy meets a girl as the time runs against them.
Über die Jahre (Over the Years) – Sarajevo 21 Documentary
Nikolaus Geyrhalter creates his magnum opus as he observes the financial and personal downfall of the rural post-industrial Austria during an extended 10-year period.
Krš (Karst) – Sarajevo 21 Documentary
An experimental journey by Vladimir Todorović that explores the inner real identities which emerge in a rough and mountainous Montenegrin landscape.
Pioneer Heroes (Pionery-geroi) – Berlinale 65 Panorama
The debut feature film by Natalya Kudryashova is a story of broken heroes with destroyed expectations that try to survive in a hostile and unidealistic present.
La Maldad (Evilness) – Berlinale 65 Forum
Mexico's most troubled political period is blended with traces of poetry and Carlos Reygadas' essence, when betrayal surpasses love in Joshua Gil's debut feature film.
Ixcanul Volcano – Berlinale 65
A low key coming-of-age drama that stands between the local Mayan traditions and their bleak impoverished lives. Debut feature film by Jayro Bustamante.
Love, Theft and Other Entanglements – Berlinale 65 Panorama
A simple story of a simple anti-hero who tries to fix his almost destined troubled life in Palestine. Debut feature film by Muayad Alayan.
Turist (Force Majeure, 2014)
Ruben Östlund dismantles the nuclear perfect iconic family as the predominant father figure fails to support his socially imposed gender role.
Marionette (2007)
Minos Nikolakakis creates a dark minimalistic tale that comes closer to reality or a dark reality that touches the edges of chilling fantasy.