Project:Yallah! Underground
Director:Farid Eslam
Production Company:Mind Riot Media (Czech Republic)
Synopsis: In 2011, the young Arabs have taken their anger and discontent to the streets of almost every major city of the Middle East. They have started to demand a change of the existing system and have created a global awareness of the tensions and conflicts within Arab societies. Still, most of the world is wondering: who are these people? How do they envision the future of their societies?
Project:Second Hand Life
Director:Sahin Sisic
Production Company:K.F. Art Family (Netherlands)
Synopsis: Second Hand Life is two way jorney of war refugees and a picture of Europe itself. In 1992, three men survive and escape the warzone in Bosnia. They travel illegally and without any travel documents. They finally stop in the Netherlands and a little later a friend of them arrives.
They heard that he was brutally raped several times, and her daughter kidnapped. While looking for the girl, they encounter former war criminals. This triggers their start for a private war crimes tribunal and searching for personal justice...
Project:Sinless City
Director:Laith Al-Juneidi
Production Company:Ishtar Creative Productions(Palestine)
Synopsis: A journey for a 64-year-old jerusalemite to discover the true meaning of the city he was born in but had to leave, and why it is considered sacred for many religions. The film will try to shed some light on the reality of the holiness of the city and find out whether it is all just political and religion had been manipulated for so many years.
Project: Mahassen
Director: Nada Mezni Hafaiedh
Production Company: Leyth Production (Tunisia)
Synopsis: Mahassen appears in the eyes of men of the village as a beautiful and attractive young woman. Abdelkhalik, a married Salafist, is seduced by her even though that he is busy preparing a terrorist attack in Tunis. But when it turns out that Mahassen is actually a hermaphrodite, also known under the name of Mohsen, everything is drastically changed.Mohsen/Mahassen symbolizes the gender equality and entitles the right to difference against opponents whose goal is the standardization of the society.
Project:The Mill
Director:Haddad Khaled
Production Company:Jordan Pioneers (Jordan)
Synopsis: The Mill explores the difficulties that people face in Jordan due to the limitations on freedom of speech. Throughout his career, journalist Sanad never shied away from controversy. With a large readership, his writings are influential to the public. But a bullet meant for him accidentally kills his best friend instead. Sanad must leave town, but he has lost his principles and has become his own worst enemy.
Project:Remembering Banat Train
Director Đura Mrđa
Production Company:Radio Television of Vojvodina(Serbia)
Synopsis: Railway stations were places where rich social life flourished. The stations embodied order, good behaviour, and a place adequate for social life. They are a kind of a witness of past times. Each of them has its own story although they are all connected with the same Banat rails.
The documentary is a sentimental journey in six episodes, along the rails that have disappeared, or have been overgrown with weeds of the Banat plains, but also along the rails that are still in use.
Project:Michael Rowe
Director:Sofija Rajcevic
Production Company:Association KingPepe Film Production(Serbia)
Synopsis: The isolated life of a depressed divorced man is turned upside down when a young woman fleeing from an international prostitution ring takes refuge in his lower-class apartament. The relationship that grows between them will push the limits of both in a trial by fire of the human soul that will leave them scarred but cleansed and with a fragile hope of a new beginning together.
Project:Black Dog
Director:Ivan Bukvic
Production Company:Bastards Production (Serbia)
Synopsis: During a cold night a black pit bull puppy left alone in the streets hides under a car and falls asleep, after days of wandering around. Sava, to whom the car belongs, decides to keep the dog and soon he gets strongly attached to it. The fighting dog named Black brings out the true nature of people around him. He is born in a society where poverty, corruption and low morals rule. Black befriends the main character and inspires him to improve.
Project:Hel
Director:Katarzyna Priwiezeincew
Production Company:Amondo Film (Poland)
Synopsis: Hel peninsula is very popular tourist’s destination during summer season and turns to perfect place to build isolated claustrophobic micro world in winter. The peninsula is about to be cut off from the rest of the word, but three young tourists are gone missing. The private investigation will unveil the terrifying secrets of Hel, hidden cautiously under its appearance of a quiet place…
Project:Life as a Gift
Director:New Day L.T.D. directors
Production Company:New Day L.T.D. (Ukraine)
Synopsis: A TV project, each issue of which describes how Ukrainian doctors save the life of a hero. The project describes people who suffer from fatal diseases or illnesses that cause lifelong disability. The project captures the attention of the viewer with the dramatic history, tells of acute social problems associated with specific diseases. Every story, every disease is the demonstration of systematic health care problems in Ukraine.
Project:The quiet American Ron Holloway
Director:Ferenc Moldovanyi
Production Company:Engram Film Production (Hungary)
Synopsis: A complex, multilayered creative documentary which evokes the cinematographic art of the past few decades through the personality of Ron Holloway, one of the most prominent film historians and aestheticians of his age. Before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, he was an advocate and expert of Soviet and Central East European cinema. He made friends with a number of charismatic film makers such as Parandjanov, Klimov, Tarkovsky and Wajda. He witnessed historic and heroic times of European cinema.
Project:Kill yourself for me
Director:Vasovic Vojin
Production Company:Gold Cut Production (Serbia)
Synopsis: In the not-so-distant future, the citizens of a Town-state, which has developed into a completely autonomous creation and lives according to its own rules, lead seemingly perfect lives. Their lives are instantly changed due to a new decree of the corrupt government: every citizen is obliged to decide by midnight whether to live forever, in the moment and state that he/she is currently in, or to, completely voluntarily, take his/her life away before the clock ticks 12…
Project:Three way week
Director:Bruno Coppola & Laureen Vonnegut
Production Company:Approaching Fish Productions(England)
Synopsis: A dark psychological thriller set in the impenetrable Balkan underworld. Easy-going
Greek playboy Ed ditches his wife, his mistress, and his job, and shows up in Bucharest to look for Lumi, a glamorous and spoilt girl he had an affair with. With the help of his cleaning lady Irina, he takes Lumi up to Northern Romania. But Irina is not really a cleaning lady – she is a trafficked woman who, after three years of degradation, has returned for revenge.
Project:The Nurse
Director:Dilek Çolak
Production Company:Kuzey Film Production (Turkey)
Synopsis: Living in a small town near Istanbul, nurse Leyla and her husband Levent have a ten years marriage and a 5-years-old son. Levent sees his marriage as an identity in his social life, but is cheating his wife; nevertheless, he is ruthless towards Leyla who can’t lose weight, and he makes her obsessive about her overweight. Leyla’s life is about to change when she meets Kerem, a political prisoner she must take care of.
Project:Mediterrannéen Breviary
Director: Filip Sovagovic
Production Company:Zona Sova (Croatia)
Synopsis: A documentary series based on a world famous book Mediterranean breviary by Predrag Matvejević in eight episodes following the topics and the ethereal approach of the author. The Mediterranean phenomenon is approached as an organism, unique and magical in its strong texture of overlap and causality. Through the episodes, the director intends to illustrate and tell the stories of Salt, Ships, Wine, Underwater, Bazaar, Music, Island, Tale, from the standing point of the myth, history science and seafarer.
Project: The Suit
Director: Pavel Braila
Production Company:Art Watt (Moldova)
Synopsis: This film is a story about how Soviet Government has stripped all its citizens to the buff. In 1989, a young man, Ion, puts in bank a fortune that he saved working in Germany, thinking this is the safest place to keep the money. A year later, the government decides to make a currency reform. Banks freeze all the money, denomination comes and after six months, the Soviet Union disappears. Already in another country – independent Republic of Moldova, reforms and changes come one after the other and no hope to get the money back…
