Ada Solomon, Chair of the European Film Academy and Romanian producer, talks about the depiction and role of ageing women in 20th century Eastern European film.

Tell me how you loved me, so I understand how to love.

Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, TOUCH ME NOT follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tomas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic...

A LÉTEZÉS EUFÓRIÁJA
Hungary

Éva Fahidi was 20 years old when she returned to Hungary from Auschwitz Birkenau. She was all alone, 49 members of her family were murdered, including her mother, her father and her little sister. 70 years later, aged 90, Éva is asked to participate in a dance theatre...

On August 11, 1999, while the world celebrated, most of Serbia’s population barricaded themselves in their homes and nuclear bunkers, in fear of the lunar shadow.

Using this event as a metaphor for nation’s unclean conscience about the consequences of its political choices, in this essay documen...

WINNER EUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGNER 2017

Duszejko, an eccentric retired construction engineer, an astrologist and a vegetarian lives in a small mountain village on the Czech-Polish border. One day her beloved dogs disappear. They cannot be found anywhere. A few months later on a snowy night Duszejk...

A 50-year-old housewife, Manana, struggles with her dilemma - she has to choose between her family life and her passion, writing, which she had repressed for years – she decides to follow her passion and plunges herself into writing, sacrificing to it mentally and physically.

Direction: Ana Urus...

Nestled in an isolated mountain region deep within the Balkans, Hatidze Muratova lives with her ailing mother in a village without roads, electricity or running water. She’s the last in a long line of Macedonian wild beekeepers, eking out a living farming honey in small batches to be sold in the ...

When a retired, recently widowed teacher falls prey to a phone scam, she’s left robbed of her life savings and without any money for her late husband’s grave.
Her life turns upside down when she realises that there’s no way of gaining her money back, up until she receives an alluring, yet suspic...

VISI MANI DRAUGI MIRUŠI

Latvia

7 min. animation

When Anna Zaķis was young, she experienced the upswing of social networks. Once active cultural life has slowed down but the desire for real conversations is still there. She will fight to the end ... for a chance to talk with someone.

Directed ...

POZITIA COPILULUI

Romania

112 min fiction

Cornelia is 60 and fundamentally unhappy: her son, Barbu, 34, fights with all his might to become independent. He has moved out, has his own car, has a girlfriend who obviously doesn't meet Cornelia's standards and – most upsettingly – he avoids his lo...

Pejzaži otpora

Serbia, Germany, France

95 min. documentary

97-year-old antifascist fighter Sonja was one of the first female partisans in Yugoslavia and a member of the resistance in Auschwitz. By listening to Sonja’s stories, we travel through the landscapes of her revolutionary past, as her ...

ANYÁM ÉS MÁS FUTÓBOLONDOK A CSALÁDBÓL

Hungary

113 min. fiction

A zany tale of a family in the 20th century. Four generations of “fools” with Mom in the focus, who has lived 94 years and moved 27 times in her life. Moving was her only means of dealing with trouble, danger or conflicts. At the ...

BRAMA

Ukraine / USA

107 min. fiction

Inside the Chornobyl exclusion zone Grandma Prisa, the family matriarch, consorts with water nymphs, eats a diet filled with hallucinogenic mushrooms and claims to have personally stabbed 12 SS soldiers to death during World War II. She lives together wit...