SEE FF 2021 - FEATURE SELECTION
ALBANIA
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Encounter in the Air - Ardit Sadiku
Project Type:Feature Runtime:1 hour 30 minutes Completion Date:November 15, 2019 Country of Origin:Albania Country of Filming:Albania Language:Albanian Shooting Format:Digital Production Company: Ardit Sadiku Film Ardit Sadiku - Director Ardit Sadiku - Writer Herton Meta - “Blerimi” Todi Kasemi - “Drini” Auron Mimaj - “Gezimi” Synopsis: Blerim, an employee of a TV station, takes on a highly unusual side gig — one that immerses him in a world of mental illness, paranoia, and blurred reality. |
BULGARIA
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Dante's Heaven - Dimitar Radev
Project Title (Original Language):Рая на Данте Project Type:Feature Runtime:1 hour 52 minutes Completion Date:August 19, 2020 Production Budget:190,000 EUR Country of Origin:Bulgaria Country of Filming:Bulgaria Language:Bulgarian Shooting Format:digital Dimitar Radev - Director Dimitar Radev - Writer Nikolay Mutafchiev - Producer Eleni Dekidis - Producer Vladimir Penev - “Dante” Radina Borshosh - “Raya” Synopsis: Dante’s life (64) has lost its meaning after the death of his mother and his retirement. The one thing that motivates Dante to keep on living is to take revenge on his mother’s tormentors when after her death he finds out closely guarded secrets from the past. He meets Raya/Heaven/ (18), the granddaughter of one of the rapists. Will she ignite his desire for revenge or lead him to forgiveness? |
CYPRUS
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Senior Citizen - Marinos Kartikkis
Project Title (Original Language):ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ ΤΡΙΤΗΣ ΗΛΙΚIΑΣ Project Type:Feature Runtime:1 hour 24 minutes Completion Date:February 20, 2020 Production Budget:70,000 EUR Country of Origin:Cyprus Country of Filming:Cyprus Language:Modern Greek MARINOS KARTIKKIS - Director MARINOS KARTIKKIS - Writer TONIA MISHIALI - Producer ANDROS ACHILLEOS - Producer MARINOS KARTIKKIS - Producer ANTONIS KATSARIS - “THEOHARIS” MARINA ARGYRIDOU - “EVGENIA” LENIA SOROCOU - “ATHENA” YIOLA KLITOU - “LITSA” Synopsis: Theoharis, an elderly and lonely man, takes refuge in the hospital every evening to spend the night. He sleeps on the benches and chairs of the outpatients’ wing because he is afraid to be alone. Every morning he returns to his house, where his only companion is his cat and his memories. One night he is discovered by a young nurse, Evgenia, who tries to learn more about him. Theoharis is initially skeptical and refuses to give her any information. Gradually, however, a relationship of trust between the two begins to be built and Evgenia tries to help him. |
HUNGARY
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Tall Tales - Attila Szász
Project Title (Original Language):Apró mesék Project Type:Feature Genres:Drama, Romance Runtime:1 hour 52 minutes Completion Date:February 1, 2019 Production Budget:2,000,000 USD Country of Origin:Hungary Country of Filming:Hungary Attila Szász - Director Norbert Köbli - Writer Tamás Lajos - Producer Ábel KövesProducer - Eternal Winter Tamás Szabó Kimmel - Cast Vica Kerekes - Cast Levente Molnár - Cast Synopsis: Shortly after the end of World War II, a con man on the run finds himself in a passionate love affair that may well cost him his life. |
MACEDONIA
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The Happiness Effect - Borjan Zafirovski
Written and Directed by Borjan Zafirovski. Co-writer Dejan Dukovski. Producer: Sasho Pesev Cast: Dejana Poposka, Sashko Kocev, Ana Stojanovska, Sara Anastasovska, Jovica Mihajlovski, Petre Arsovski, Mimi Tanevska. Editor: Andrija Zafranovich Cinematographer : Dimo Popov Production design: Vanja Bartling Costum design: Burm Musliu Ost by : Ognen Atanasovski, Galathea Sound design : Bratislav Zafirovski The film i supported by Macedonian Film Agency, Serbia Film Agency, Kosovo Film Fund and Montenegro film Agency. Production of the movie November, 2019 . Duration 90 min. Production companies: New Macedonian Video, New Moment, Living Pictures, B2 movies, Max Film. Sinopsis: Lea is a young girl on the brink of death. She begins her final challenge, a thesis that seeks proof in the belief that happiness can be multiplied, as can the feelings of sadness, loneliness, and misery. Unfolding the research, she discovers the "Werther Effect", a phenomenon that creates a negative domino effect. She turns to her work on a project which will achieve the opposite effect, something which would be named the "happiness effect". Utilizing an eclectic, individualistic approach to experimentation and the power of positive thinking, connections and equations lead her on a path to uncover ultimate happiness. |
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TM - Ivica DImitrijevic, Martin Ivanov
Project Type:Feature Genres:Docudrama, Mystery Runtime:1 hour Country of Origin:Macedonia Language:Macedonian Shooting Format:Digital Ivica DImitrijevic, Martin Ivanov - Director, Writer, Producer Ivica Dimitrijevic - “Filip” Natalija Teodosieva - “Ivana” Gorast Cvetkovski - “Acko” Dimitrija Doksevski - “Dime” Aleksandar Gjorgieski - “Bobi ” Dragana Kostadinovska - “Sonja” Srdjan Janicijevic - himself Dzano KucKey - “Denis” Synopsis: Philip is an IT programmer who lives in a rented flat in the center of Skopje for quite a long time. His girlfriend is Ivana while Achko, Dimche and Mali are his friends. The unbearable lightness of living the moment, and the situation which Philip and the people around him must live through, are getting more unbearable as time goes by. Burdened by all the aspects in the current state in the society- political upheavals, divisions, an amplitude of pressures and hypocrisy, Philip decides to return to his old house in the outskirts of the city for a prolonged retreat. TM is a film about loneliness, about having faith in the impossible, a criticism of society and politics as the main culprit for the disappearance of the individual, for the disappearance of a person who is an entire world. |
MOLDAVIA
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Memory - Maxim Chisnicean
Project Type:Feature Runtime:1 hour 10 minutes Completion Date:April 4, 2020 Production Budget:55,000 EUR Country of Filming:Moldova, Republic of Language:Romanian Shooting Format: Super35 Maxim Chisnicean - Director Ronin Terente - Writer Maxim Chisnicean - Producer Cast: Mariana Chisnicean Constantin Ipati Johny Alici Mihail Turculet Iurie Casap Anatolie Bahov Iurie Sirbu Ghenadie Gumenco Andrei Raciuc Synopsis: Edmund and Mari wake up in the morning, in a city foreign to them, trying to find out who they are and where their house is. Everyone behaves as if they know them, only they don't remember anything, but then they understand that they can't leave this place anymore, they are closed and only a lottery chooses who are leaving the place. All their attempts to find out fail. |
MONTENEGRO
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You have the night - Ivan Salatić
Montenegro, Serbia / drama / 82′ Director: Ivan Salatić Production: Meander Film (ME), Non Aligned Films (RS) Cast: Ivana Vuković Momčilo Pićurić Jasna Djuričić Boris Isaković Luka Petrone Synopsis: After losing her job as a hostess aboard a ship, Sanja finds herself stranded, with nowhere to go but home. Returning to her small coastal hometown in Montenegro, she discovers the shipyard has filed for bankruptcy, leaving many people out of work. Boats covered with tarpaulin are scattered around the forgotten landscape, set aside for better days. A storm comes, and one life is lost, while Luka waits for the night in the woods, a night in which everything could change. |
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Lazy Guy - Aleksa Stefan Radunović Original title: Ljenština Runtime: Feature film (84 min) Country: Montenegro Production budget: 14,300 EUR Producer: Andisheh Radunović Director: Aleksa Stefan Radunović Writer: Aleksa Stefan Radunović Production: Sitanoni Films (ME) Cast: Savo Ščepanović Tatijana Marinović Milica Ščepanović Sejfo Seferović Vuk Sandić Synopsis: Lazy Guy is a look at the life of many youth and their families in Montenegro’s capital city, Podgorica. Through the story of a young man struggling to find a job, the film attempts to show… |
SERBIA
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A.S. - Milena Grujić
Project Type:Feature Runtime:1 hour 10 minutes Completion Date:September 15, 2019 Country of Origin:Serbia Country of Filming:Serbia Milena Grujić - Director Milena Grujić - Writer Janko Đorić - Producer Tijana Marković - Producer Jovana Jovičić - Producer Milena Grujić - Producer Vladimir Gvojić - “Sale” Nikola Šurbanovic - “Andrej” Dominika Walo - “Olga” Nenad Pećinar - The Disobedient Synopsis: After an attempt of robbery goes wrong, two friends are faced with a complicated situation. |
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The Witch's Cauldron - Branislav Jankić
Experimental feature film (performance documentation) YEAR : 2020 RUNTIME: 92 minutes LANGUAGE: Serbian, Croatian, Bosninan Branislav Jankić - Director Branislav Jankić - Writer Monika Jagaciak Jankić - Executive Producer Jordančo Petkovski - Producer Goran Macura - Producer Ernest Wilczynski - Director of Photography Tamer Hany Hassan - Editor Branislav Jankić - Editor Cast: Petar Božović, Danica Krstić, Željka Zdjelar, Tomislav Latinkić, Aleksandar Petrović - Hugo Synopsis: The Witch’s Cauldron is a performance-based feature length film that explores the repetitive pattern of violence in the Balkans—its historic conflicts, as well as the contemporary tensions and contradictions which remain to this very day. In the film, a live audience, consisting of different ethnic and religious groups from the Balkans, sit in a circle around a MMA fighting cage in which a single narrator recites six stories about six significant historical events impacting the Balkans. |
SLOVENIA
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All Against All -- Andrej Košak
Project Title (Original Language):VSI PROTI VSEM Project Type:Feature Runtime:1 hour 45 minutes Completion Date:October 17, 2019 Production Budget:975,000 EUR Country of Origin:Slovenia Country of Filming:Slovenia Language:Slovenian ANDREJ KOŠAK - Director ANDREJ KOŠAK - Writer Zoran Dževerdanović - Producer Vlado Novak - “Franta” Silva Čušin - “Tončka ” Iva Kranjc Bagola - “Jožica” Peter Musevski - “Berginc” Aleksandra Balmazović - “Petra” Valter Dragan - “Fleishmann” Blagoj Veselinov - “Bojan” Synopsis: A corrupt mayor of idyllic Slovenian town Rovte is connecting with local criminal to put out of race his opponent in the upcoming elections. A story about losing morality, where only criminals are having a moral code ... |
TURKEY
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Faraway Land - Erkan Yazıcı
Director: Erkan Yazıcı Writer/Screenplay: Erkan Yazıcı Producer: Altın Yazıcı/ Keyfilm produksiyon Music: Burak Beşir Cinematographer: Murat Karabina Film Editor: Umut Sakallıoğlu Country of origin: Turkey Duration: 93 minutes Year of production:2020 Original title of the film: Uzak ülke English title of the film: Faraway Land Cast: Haydar Sişman, Abdurrahman Gönan Synopsis: Black sea coast 1925. Paris, who is 12-year-old Greek from Trabzon, escapes from the camp to take the keepsake inherited from his father. When he comes back to the camp again, refugees have already gone and the camp has been vacated. The new regime declares warworn Major Osman as traitor and he is arrested in the camp which is vacated by the greek refugees . The camp where roots and fidelity are questioned will be a country in twilight for both, until a new ship arrives at the pier. |
