A Blast – Sarajevo 20
Syllas Tzoumerkas' sophomore feature is a powerful sociopolitical drama that juxtaposes the cynicism of the troubled Greek society while the middle-class decays internally.
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Viharsarok (Land of Storms) – Sarajevo 20
A deeply emotional and visually impressive drama by Ádám Császi, that exposes the issue of homophobia in modern day Hungary.
Three Windows and a Hanging (Tri Dritare dhe një Varje) – Sarajevo 20
Isa Quosja directs a slow burning drama that is dealing with one of the most delicate and tabu issues in modern post-war Kosovo.
Krugovi (Circles, 2013)
A heroic act during the Yugoslav war haunts the lives of the heroes. Concentric circles of fate can bring atonement. Directed by Srdan Golubović.
Klip (Clip, 2012)
Maja Miloš in her debut film is trying to visualize, through a perverse adolescent love, a without makeup reality that was created in a plastic and fake world.
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
A film of marginal pairs’ balance that move among realism and fantasy, hope and disillusionment, justice and injustice, heterosexuality and homosexuality, AIDS and life.
Gorod Zero (Zero City, 1988)
Kafkaesque absurdity meets Soviet reality during the years of the extremely bureaucratic Perestroika in this deadpan comedy by Karen Shakhnazarov.
Monanieba (Repentance, 1984)
Tengiz Abuladze by presenting a grotesque realism with a touch of subcutaneous self-sarcasm managed to bury all the fears that had survived for so many years in the USSR.
Magdanas Lurja (Magdana’s Donkey, 1955)
The debut film by Tengiz Abuladze and Rezo Chkheidze is a rural period neorealistic drama set in 19th century Georgia.
Un Lac (A Lake, 2008)
An excellent example of experimental cinema that touches the verges of lyrical poetic naturalism by Philippe Grandrieux.
La Vie Nouvelle (A New Life, 2002)
Philippe Grandrieux offers a multilayered dream-like filmic experience through the most radical experimental film of the recent years.
Ikarie XB-1 (Voyage to the End of the Universe, 1963)
The pioneering Czechoslovak science fiction film by Jindrich Polák, based on Stanislaw Lem's The Magellanic Cloud.