SHORT FILMS SELECTION
ALBANIA
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THE STRANGE CASE OF TERESITA (2023)
A young couple is expecting a baby, but this expected birth, creates confusion. For them, this child is coming too early, and creates uncertainty in their youth plans. They are looking for a solution but without harming the creature that they love dearly. Runtime:15 minutes Renis Hyka - Director, Writer Samanta Schweblin - Writer Gledis Bica - Producer Ajsela Vojka - Producer Cast: Altea Dulellari, Edinjo Jahja, Genci Fuga, Rovena Lule |
BULGARIA
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AMBROZIA (2023)
Ambrozia is a short film, created in the genre of Surrealism. Following the roots of cinema, the film shows a sequence of poems and characters telling us a story of the fight with the inner demons and loneliness. A film of dreams and illusions and a repeating question, hidden between the lines - Who the dreamer is? Borimir Ilkov - Director Madlen Demirova - Writer, Producer Izabela Manolova - Producer, Camera, Production design Yann Rumenin - Music Composer Runtime:17 minutes Cast: George Zlatarev, Stoyan Radev, Veselina Mihalkova, Izabela Manolova |
CYPRUS
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ATHALASSA (2023)
Cyprus, 1936. In the midst of a raging tuberculosis epidemic, a dedicated young doctor seeks inventive ways to save his patients’ lives and protect them from the disease’s social stigma. The film is adapted from a short autobiographical story by Takis Evangelides, a local doctor at Cyprus' only TB sanatorium when the island was still a British colony. Runtime:25 minutes Argyro Nicolaou - Director, Writer Marios Stylianou - Producer John Evangelides - Producer Anita Michaelides - Producer Cast: Nectarios Theodorou, Dimitris Chimonas, Konstantinos Alkiviades Erdoğan Kavaz, Paul Stewart, Nadine Tsielepis |
GREECE
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WHY WON'T YOU DANCE? (2023)
Anna wants to find someone to talk to at the party. She wants to, but not really. Vasilis for sure doesn't want to talk to Anna at the party. Their reluctant meeting will bring forth memories for Anna that she would much rather ignore. Runtime:15 minutes Penelope Mavropsaridi - Director, Writer, Producer Yorgos Mavropsaridis - Producer Peggy Psarrou - Producer Cast: Felice Topi, Vaggelis Daousis |
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THE THIEF (2023)
Two strangers meet in an apartment. The front door was left ajar. Anyone could enter. Neither of them wants to reveal their identity to the other so they engage in a role-playing game. Who is the righteous and who is the thief? Runtime:12 minutes Matteo Pizzocaro - Director, Writer, Proiducer Cast: Penelope Tsilika, Dimosthenis Xylardistos, Elissaios Vlachos |
HUNGARY
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O.N.E. (2023)
Máté, like all new paramedics, is terrified of giving birth. But on the first live deployment of his life, he will most likely be forced to face his fear. It would certainly be easier if he didn't find out from his girlfriend that he was going to be a father before going to work. Runtime:26 minutes 30 seconds Csaba Vékes - Director, Producer Zsolt Kathy - Writer Cast: Derzsi Dezső, Roland Rába, Niké Kurta |
KOSOVO
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COMMON DESIRE (2024)
Common Desire explores what it is that drives people’s pursuit for material status as well as how a population’s desires are materialized within a free market economy. The film is a delirious portrait of the rapidly-changing socio-economic environment of Kosovo, observing several different small businesses and shops in Prizren, and how they generate dreamlike images of prosperity and social-mobility. Runtime:10 minutes 58 seconds Tringa Gashi - Director, Writer, Producer Andita Shabanaj - Co-Director Andita Shabanaj - Producer Cast: Janna Aldaraji, Aida Berisha, Hannah Wagner Höegh, Sahar Jamili, Damai Syarifuddin, Marie Vedel |
MACEDONIA
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HALA (2023)
The question of man's destructive nature, man's coherence with nature, depicted through the Slavic mythological creature hala, lamya. It moves underground, hides in pitchers and tree barks, enchants the peasant and awakens evil, lives as a symbol for the action that destroys the collective, unintentional and uncontrolled. Runtime:9 minutes 51 seconds Angela Grozdanov - Director, Writer Kiril Karakash - Producer Svetislav Podleshanov - Producer Magdalena Doneska - Writer Andrej Tatarchevski - Music Iva Damjanovski - Music Viktor Tanaskovski - Music |
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BOXES (2023)
Lidija’s daring double life as a food box maker and a drug dealer takes a dangerous turn as a fatal mistake, jeopardises her relationship with her colleagues, puts her daughter’s life in danger and risks exposing her to Nikola, her police officer husband. Runtime:14 minutes 55 seconds Angela Dimeska - Director, Writer Ognen Antov - Producer Zlatko Dimeski - Producer Dejan Dimeski - Producer Cast:Daniela Ivanoska, Biljana Jovanovska, Zhaklina Stefkovska |
MOLDOVA
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ADRIANA (2023)
One month ahead of her high school exams, Adriana breaks up with her boyfriend, is about to lose her internship at the youth news portal, and quarrels with her mother all the time. Uncertain and lost in her personal life, Adriana decides to take up a community project. Will she succeed this time or will her initiative be another failure? Runtime:28 minutes Liviu Rotaru - Director, Writer Ilie Prodan, Mark Mazureanu, Vlad Doruc Natalia Corobca-Ianusevici Cast: Diana Boscov, Ana Tkacenko, Mihaela Damian, Petru Oistric |
ROMANIA
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EVERYTHING IS GREAT AND NOBODY IS HAPPY (2024)
On New Year’s Eve a young woman, Monica, makes a list of resolutions, determined to guide her new life around them. As the day goes by, her enthusiasm wanes: a yoga instructor mocks her, the downstairs neighbor judges her, two homeless people abuse her kindness, a teenager asks donations for a questionable cause, and a young man twists her words in his favor. After all this, Cristi, the son of her mother’s old friend, arrives at her door and puts an end to Monica’s horrible day, and to her resolution list. Runtime:15 minutes 35 seconds Ioana Pasarin - Director, Writer Constantin Ene Jr.- Producer Cast: Cosmina Olariu |
SLOVENIA
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HOW I LEARNED TO HANG LAUNDRY (2023)
After a chance encounter, Oli and Miha become friends, or something more. Or less. Barbara Zemljič - Director Špela Murenc - Writer Klemen Dvornik - Producer Cast: Tamara Avguštin, Domen Novak, Lucija Harum |
