Poland
14 year-old Dawid could become a judo champion, if it wasn’t for his short temper and aggression he finds hard to control. It’s the only legacy he has from his violent, imprisoned father. Dawid struggles to live up to his mother’s hopes for him while keeping an eye on his conniving 9 year-old brother. He gets a chance to [...]
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Bulgaria
Smart, angry, self-reliant Dida (15) will stop at nothing to achieve a single tangible goal — to buy a plane ticket, so she can join her estranged mother in the USA.
A special offer on a ticket to New York is to expire in a few hours. Dida steals, blows and bullies for cash. As pressure builds up, she loses her temper, and is [...]
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Czech Republic
Welcome to an ordinary small town in the Czech Republic, a town that changes once every year beyond recognition when it hosts a big Christian pilgrimage feast. Crowds flock to town to behold with their own eyes the miracle-working image of the Virgin Mary, said to have once shed tears of blood, and which to this day is believed [...]
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Hungary
Hungarians and Gypsies have been living together for centuries. The status quo is that the Hungarians are smart and the Gypsies are stupid. There is a gay, 7-year-old boy, Lali, who wants to challenge this. But he does the unpardonable: he wins a competition against Hungarian kids. The powers-that-be turn against him and take [...]
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Croatia
The fact that during the Nazi era, during the time of genocide and racial laws in Croatia (1941-1945), there existed the Croatian national boxing team, which performed all over occupied Europe, and which was trained and led by the dark skinned American Professional Jimmy Lyggett, today this sounds intriguing and almost [...]
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Latvia
Matiss (26) has it all figured out – a well-balanced life together with the widowed Agate (43) and her little daughter Stasija (9), a well-paid job as a housing repossession manager and a well-managed fling on the side – the wildly sexy young girl. He has the wits, the charm, yet he's unattached, keeping his options open [...]
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Poland
In declining communist Poland, in Gdansk Orunia, two young friends want to fulfill their dreams of fame and fortune. However, the reality is not to rosy. Sebastian pirates and sells VHS cassettes, while Boguslav owns a vegetable stall at the local market. One day, due to a lack of knowledge of the basics of television [...]
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Serbia
The scars of one war have not healed yet – in the 1950’s Yugoslavia – while the new conflicts are already emerging. The Yugoslav communists have antagonised the Soviet Union and they don’t know anymore, who is their friend or their enemy.
The Yugoslav communist party needs to be purged from pro-Stalinists, and Colonel [...]
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Slovenia
Meeting again after a decade, two brothers have to face the consequences of violence in their childhood.
ANDREJ (38) is a policeman, working on domestic violence cases. He lives with his girlfriend ANNA (28). On the job he is sent on a police intervention where he runs into his violent brother KRISTIAN (35), whom he [...]
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Poland
Muteness is a dystopia aimed at young audience, an ecological manifesto filmed with a poetically sensitive approach. Helena, a suffering from Nature-Deficit Disorder teenager, lives in the world on the brink of extinction resulting from a phenomenon called the Tree Exodus. Trees abandon the Earth, leaving behind only the memory [...]
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Bulgaria
Asen (40) lives between his work in a poultry slaughterhouse and his workshop where he is making kites, providing for his 13-year-old son Koko. They are very close to each other and those kites are the only colourful element in the gray, mundane lives. Asen is a loner, doesn't fit the modern understanding of what is [...]
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