Ayeneh / Mirror

  1. / 14’ 04’’ 

Iran

Directed and produced by: Faranak Moradi

Cast: Behnaz Jafari, Nasim Moslemi, Bahareh Radmand

 

After many years, SHE gets back to the house of her late brother in law and SHE reveals secrets for his two daughters.

 

*World premiere

Big Touch

  1. / 03’ 19’’ 

USA

Directed by: Christopher Tenzis

Produced by: Gabrielle Cordero

Cast: Astra Marie Varnado, Raymond Ejiofor, Carly Stewart, Arabella Frost

An Afro-Surrealist story about a giant woman and a tiny man who through the power of touch, experience an unexpected transformation.

 

*Serbian premiere

Good Night / Da Yie

 

  1. / 20′ 34”

Ghana, Belgium

Directed by: Anthony Nti

 

Produced by: Chingiz Karibekov, Anthony Nti, Dimitri Verbeeck

 

Cast: Prince Agortey, Matilda Enchil, Goua Grovogui, Ma Abena, Zadi Wonder, Malcolm Bader, Kodjo Boateng, Anthony Nti

 

Production company: RONDINI & RITCS, Caviar

 

On a sunny day in Ghana, a foreigner approaches two children and takes them on an unexpected trip. The three of them get along so well that “Bogah”, the foreigner, starts to question his initial intentions…

 

*Serbian premiere

Do.Solo.Pin

  1. / 11’ 07’’ 

Iran

Directed by: Javad Atefeh

Produced by: Ehsan Pakbaznia

Cast: Atefe Pakbaznia,  Karim Ashtari, Yousef Jahandoust, Pajand Soleymani

Production company: Doctor.E Holdings

 

A young woman is nursing an old man who is suffering from depression. The nurse video calls with the man’s daughter who lives abroad every day to report on her father’s health and update his condition.  

 

* World premiere

Ќe mu se javam na tatko ti / I’m calling your father

  1. / 12’ 

North Macedonia

Directed by: Leon Ristov

Produced by: Dejan Djolev, Leon Ristov

Cast: Aleksandar Andonovski, Nikolina Kujača, Oliver Mitkovski, Stefanija Jovčeska, Mario Mijatović

 

Production company: Djolev and the Arts

 

When a teenager gets attacked by peers, his parents come up with a plan to protect him.

 

*Serbian premiere

My name is Sonila

  1. / 19’ 30’’ 

Albania

Directed by: Suela Bako

Produced by: Robert Budina, Sabina Kodra, Karine Blanc, Michel Tavares, Nathalie Landais

Cast: Suela Bako, Marilda Furxhi, Kaltrin Zalla, Naum Shundi, Romir Zalla, Marvin Tafaj, Kastriot Shehi, Margent Çaushi, Bajram Dosti, Marsias Lila, Donika Ramallari, Ervin Mustafaj, Florind Belliu, Donald Braho

Production company : ERA Film, Takami Productions

 

Convinced she knows the thieves who stole her wallet in the bus, Sonila starts hunting them, with the help of police. But, in order to respect rule of law, police must follow the procedures, an act close to Kafkaesque bureaucracy rather than a solution to the case and finding the burglars.

 

*Serbian premiere

Noamia

  1. / 29’ 

Poland

Directed by: Antonio Galdamez

Produced by: Ewa Jastrzębska, Jerzy Kapuściński

Cast: Bartłomiej Topa, Daniel Namiotko, Agnieszka Glińska, Bartłomiej Kotschedoff 

Production company : Munk Studio – Polish Filmmakers Association

 

A dead boy is found in Warsaw-on-Sea. Police Superintendent Delman arrives at the scene of the crime and quickly realises that he knew the victim and that the boy’s secret is also his. His investigations lead him to the seaside district of Noamia.

 

*International premiere

Pashka

  1. / 22’ 24’’ 

Greece

Directed by: Oltjon Lipe

Produced by: Alex Christoyiannis, Oltjon Lipe, Christos Giannakopoulos, Cosmote TV

Cast: Kostas Nikoulis, Karafil Shena,  Armando Dauti, Elena Arvaniti, Dimitris Fragulis, Dimitris Kastanias, Vangelis Alexandris.

 

Production company: Elculture.gr

 

A son speaks to his father as they drive through the night. The father stays silent. Short glimpses of their life together, paint the picture of their daily life away from their home country. A small apartment, work in a repair shop, sipping coffee on the balcony. The boy misses his family and doubts his father’s decision to leave Albania for a life in Greece. He decides to force him to return by stealing money from their workplace. As the Easter bells ring, the father draws his last breath. The boy will try and carry his dead father back to Albania, fulfilling his last wish.

 

*Serbian premiere

Miegamasis Rajonas /  Places

Lithuania

Directed by: Vytautas Katkus

Produced by: Klementina Remeikaitė

Cast: Vygantas Bachmackij, Karolis Kasperavicius, Vismante Ruzgaite, Emilija Ruzgaite, Aiste Zavotkaite

Production company : Afterschool

 

Two childhood friends are spending their last days in the places where they grew up, trying to postpone their farewell to the district which is changing.

 

*Serbian premiere

Rainbow

  1. / 17’ 

Montenegro

Directed by: Aleksandar Vujović

Produced by: Aleksandar Vujović i Anja Sekulić

Cast: Nikša Radojičić, Miloš Pejović, Ana Vučković i Đorđije Tatić

Production company: Apulia Film Commission

Executive production: Boka F

The main character remembers an event from his early childhood that determined his life vocation. At the age of less than six, while on a journey with his father, he experienced a magical moment. It led him to recognize his life vocation very early and become an artist.

 

*Regional premiere

Aninsri Daeng / Red Aninsri; Or, Tiptoeing on the Still Trembling Berlin Wall

  1. / 29’ 57’’ 

Thailand

Directed by: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

Produced by: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, Kamonlak Jirahitapat, Chonlasit Upanigkit

Cast: Sarut Komalittipong, Atikhun Adulpocatorn, Gandhi Wasuvitchayagit, Napat Kiatkwankul, Ornanong Thaisriwong, Teerawat  Mulvilai

The queer espionage film made in the tradition of Cold-War-era Thai dubbed film. A ladyboy prostitute-cum-spy is assigned a mission to disguise as a cis-masculine gay to spy on a student activist.

Lurch

  1. / 15’ 35’’ 

Croatia

Directed by: Jasna Nanut, Čejen Černić, Judita Gamulin

Produced by: Ana Vidović

Cast: Nataša Dangubić, Sanja Milardović, Tesa Litvan

Production company: Akademija dramskih umjetnosti, Zagreb

In this short omnibus, three directors, each belonging to a different generation, direct their respective female characters and thus display different aspects of a car accident which, alongside the victim’s life, irreversibly changes theirs as well.  

*World premiere