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December 21th -23th , 2020

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Housekeeping

Andrew Margetson
Serbia Montenegro / 2019 / 0:17:55


A man on a business trip strikes up an unusual relationship with a chambermaid. The next morning, the relationship goes sour and he realises she is not who she seems to be.


 

Bigger Than Life

Adnan Softic
Macedonia / 2018 / 0:30:00


"Bigger Than Life" is a music film in four acts. The focus is on the fabrication of national history through architecture and urban planning. »Skopje 2014« is the name of the monumental construction plan of the Macedonian government, which wants to stage its capital as the cradle of ancient high civilization and as the origin of Europe. Would that be something new? Will we buy that (hi)story?

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Ficus

Andrej Ilievski Volkashin
Bosnia-Herzegovina / 2018 / / 0:17:16


Almir is a gay man in the closet, who struggles with self acceptance. He is hopelessly in love with his emotionally unstable, married boyfriend Mirsad. Instead of going to a party, Almir decides to spend New Year's eve with his dying friend Militsa and come out to her.

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My Name is Sonila

Suela Bako
France, Albania / 2019 / 0:19:30


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.

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Srna

Goran Dujakovic
Bosnia and Herzegovina / 2019 / 0:11:31


Jelena Srna is the only inhabitant of the abandoned mountain range Ostrelj. When she returned from Australia, she opened the gallery there. In the silence of the mountain that occasionally interrupts the call of wolves, the inspiration lies in aboriginal art ...


 

Why is Mom Always Crying?
Zasto mama vazda place?

Karmen Orbdalj
Bosnia and Herzegovina/ 2019 / 0:16:00


"It was enough for me to think day and night about you." Ena discovers her parent’s love letters. They sent each other letters while they were separated in the war, in the most hopeless place in the world - Bosnia and Herzegovina. She goes on a trip to the City from her childhood “Pustograd” and she recalls the almost impossible love of her parents. When the war in Mostar begin, Ena's parents, a married couple of different nationalities, moved away from the war from Mostar to Pustograd where Ena's father is taken into captivity. Ena and her mother are left alone in the world. They live in anxiety and fear, not knowing if their other half is dead or alive. Six months after Ena's father is taken, Ena and her mother receive the first letter. The letter comes in unaddressed, unfamiliar way. That is the start of their exchange of letters; months go by when they cannot hear from each other, while Ena and her mother tremble for his life.

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