DOCUMENTARIES SELECTION 2022
ALBANIA
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Freestyle to Montenegro - Ardit Sadiku
Country: Albania, 2021, 72 min, Colour Language: Albanian, English Production Company: Ardit Sadiku Film Ardit Sadiku - Director In the summer of 1987, Tonin Gjini swam from Albania to Yugoslavia, in search of freedom. Three decades later, he revisits the locations and recreates the events of that unforgettable experience. |
BULGARIA
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Guardians Of Our Conscience - Stanislav Donchev
Project Type:Documentary Runtime:1 hour 2 minutes Completion Date:May 1, 2021 Country of Origin:Bulgaria Country of Filming:Bulgaria Language:Bulgarian Stanislav Donchev - Director Teodora Doncheva - Writer Petya Alexandrova - Writer Stanislav Donchev - Producer A contemporary socio-psychological collective portrait of people in a typical Bulgarian urban environment, practicing jobs that are widely hated. They are of different age, with different occupations, attitudes, life experiences, and dreams. They work as ticket inspectors and parking wardens. Our characters’ performance of their duties attracts anger and hate on a daily basis, because they enforce the laws and regulations, in general and on an everyday level. We intend to show them in a juxtaposition: both as representatives of the law and as ordinary human beings like the rest of us – interesting and likable. |
CROATIA
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Now I Am Irena - Jasmina Beširević
Project Type:Documentary Runtime:12 minutes 45 seconds Completion Date:June 16, 2021 Country of Origin:Croatia Country of Filming:Croatia Language:Croatian Jasmina Beširević - Director Magdalena Ptiček - Cinematographer Dora Slakoper - Editor Nina Ugrinović - Sound Designer Cast: Irena Kolar A young woman revisits a seemingly insignificant argument with her former husband during the time of her pregnancy. Using elements of psychodrama, she steps into the role of her past self and struggles to access buried emotions caused by his abusiveness. |
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The Eagle of Fiume - Dario Lonjak
Project Type:Documentary Runtime:52 minutes 47 seconds Completion Date:February 2, 2021 Country of Origin:Croatia Country of Filming:Croatia, Italy Language:Croatian, Italian Dario Lonjak - Director, Producer Velimir Grgić - Writer, Producer Dario Matić - Director of Photography Ivor Šonje - Editor Luka Čapeta - Music Hrvoje Podobnik, Tihomir Vrbanec - Sound Gabriele D'Annunzio and his occupation of Rijeka (Croatia) are one of the most bizarre and important phenomena of political and cultural life of the 20th century. "The Eagle of Fiume" documentary brings a deep insight into that phenomenon. |
GREECE
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Unknown Journey - Erikos Kranidiotis
Project Type:Documentary Genres:Documentary Runtime:38 minutes Completion Date:February 11, 2022 Country of Origin:Greece Country of Filming:Greece Chris Giatrakos - Director, Producer Erikos Kranidiotis - Director, Writer, Producer Cast: Akis Pallis, Hercules Katsaros, Nikos Leloudas, Kostas Efthimiadis, Konstantinos Voukelatos A team of explorers embark on a mission to investigate underwater an abandoned mine revealing its hidden secrets. Join their quest to explore this underworld and witness their discoveries which were hidden for almost half a century since these works were abandoned and the sections flooded. The documentary provides a unique insight to these areas from their last day of operation and a first hand account on the many challenges and dangers faced by the team in their journey to accomplish what seemed impossible. |
MONTENEGRO
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Soul of Nature - Slavko Klikovac
Country of Origin:Montenegro Genres:Documentary Runtime:19 minutes Completion Date: 2021 Slavko Klikovac - Director, Writer, Editor Mladen Ivanović - Producer Slavko Klikovac, Boris Đurović - Cinematography Following a year-long natural cycle, we show a metaphorical relationship elements with the inner states of man and their mutual Connection. The film opens with a shot of "Gates of Desire" which we follow through the hearts shapes to ultimately emanate that desire with the final frame that brings us together With the Cosmos. |
MACEDONIA
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101 Roles 102 Lives, Bajrush Mjaku - Filip Herin
Country of Origin:Macedonia Genres:Documentary Runtime:79 minutes Completion Date: 2021 Filip Herin - Director Arsim Kamberi - Producer Oliver Josifovski - Music Zoran Canevski, Dilever Mustafa - Editors Goran Canevski - Animation Reshat Kamberi - Screenplay Follows the life and career of the famous actor Bajrush Mjaku. |
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Immortality of Blazhe Koneski - Iskra Taleska
Country of Origin:Macedonia Genres:Documentary Runtime:34 minutes Completion Date: 31 March 2022 Iskra Talevska - Director, Producer, Writer Cast: Radovan P. Cvetkovski, Pece Stefanovski, Mende Mladenovski, Ljubinka Doneva, Prof. D-r Ljudmil Spasov, Prof. D-r Dimitar Pandev, Prof. D-r Vera Antić, Natasha Zulumovska, Hristijan Tuneski, Ivana Petrovska, Sofija Trampevska This documentary covers the life and work of Blaze Koneski. It explores his birth place and his experiences and close encounters with beloved colleagues, friends and students. Through these events we learn about his significance for the Macedonian language, national culture and identity. |
SERBIA
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Prokop - Danilo Stanimirović
Project Type:Documentary Runtime:10 minutes Completion Date: 1 March 2022 Country of Filming:Serbia Danilo Stanimirović - Director, Writer, Producer, Editor Aleksa Borković - Director of Photography Mina Petrović - Editor Predrag Kedić - Sound designer “Prokop”, Belgrade’s central train station, is alive architectural organism which drags traces from many epochs in which existed, however it was never completed. The station itself was never a train station only, and it was always absorbing consequences of human act. |
TURKEY
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Solve by dubbing - Sinan Demirtaş
Project Type:Documentary Runtime:1 hour 35 minutes Country of Origin:Turkey Country of Filming:Turkey Language:English, Turkish Completion Date: 2021 Sinan Demirtaş - Director, Writer, Producer Cast: Toron Karacaoğlu, Jeyan Mahfi, Sungun Babacan, Atilla Yiğit, Levent Dönmez, Erhan Yazıcıoğlu, Mehmet Soyaslan, Necip Sarıcı, Ali Gül Stories from the people involved in the dubbing of various films from the 50' through the 80s. |
SPECIAL SCREENING
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THINGS THAT BRING US TOGETHER
(OUT OF COMPETITION) The project "Things that bring us together" represents a series of short video stories about the interests and problems of the young people from the Western Balkans. We believe that these stories can make a positive impact and contribute to a better understanding of the region, because growing cultural values is one of the most powerful tools for reconciliation and building a better future in the region. The goal of the project “Things that bring us together” is to connect young people from N. Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro and to lead them into discovering their common interests, places, universal values, everyday challenges, fears, love and struggles. The project is realized by: - International University EUROPA PRIMA - Skopje in collaboration with: - Faculty of Arts, Pristina University - Pristina - University of arts - Tirana - Faculty of visual arts, Mediterranean University - Podgorica - Banja Luka College - Banja Luka - Stardust Art - Belgrade * This production is part of Balkans Voices project, implemented by CFI, French media development agency, along with the French Embassies in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia, with the financial support of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs. * This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence. |
