Kratt
Kratt
Rasmus Merivoo
Estonia / 2020 / 107 min
Remarkably fabulous madness, inclusive of criticism of social media. Mia and Kevin are desperate. Their parents have left them behind with grandma so that they might experience a childhood just like in the past. No smartphones, no videos and no ...
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The War of Raya Sinitsina
Milchamta shel Raya Sinitsina
Efim Graboy
Israel / 2020 / 89 min
A young filmmaker meets a self-confident veteran: Raya Sinitsina battled against the siege of Leningrad. Efim Graboy wants to make a film about the Soviet war heroine. Sixty-two years of life experience divides the two however and, indeed, it is not ...
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Fire
OT
Aizhan Kassymbek
Kazakhstan / 2020 / 84 min
Tolik is up to his ears in debt, has stress with his boss, and at home the woman awaits who is tired of his recklessness. Tolik can't seem to please anyone, and yet he continues to waltz through life like as if nothing were wrong. How does he do it? ...
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Once We Were Good To You
A Bili Smo Vam Dobri
Branko Schmidt
Croatia / 2021 / 76 min
Revolt of the old war heroes. Armed with gas cylinders and hand grenades veterans of the Croatian War occupy an old mill from which they once defended their country. Instead of the museum promised to them a shopping centre is to be built there. Soon ...
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After the Winter
Posle Zime
Ivan Bakrač
Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, France / 2021 / 101 min
Generation In-Between: When the war raged in the Balkans they were but children. Today Mladen, Danilo, Bubi, Maija and Jana are in their early thirties and find themselves scattered all over the former Yugoslavia. They were able to maintain a bond ...
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#dogpoopgirl
#dogpoopgirl
Andrei Huțuleac
Romania / 2021 / 78 min
A real-life shit storm in the truest sense of the word. A cell phone video of bank clerk Aline's dog vomiting in the subway serves as the prelude to an absurdly comical online social shaming satire. Conservationists, the tabloid press and artists, ...
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Unidentified
Neidentificat
Bogdan George Apetri
Romania, Czech Republic, Latvia / 2020 / 123 min
A relentless police thriller staged in the captivatingly captured setting of a provincial town in Romania. Hot-headed policeman Florin tries to blame a young Roma for a crime yet soon begins to lose control of the scenario. Is it all about justice or ...
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Russian Cyberpunk Farm
Russkaja Kiberderevnja
Sergey Vasiliev
Russia / 2020 / 5 min
A Russian farm not far from Ryazan. Farmer Nikolay is looking for new workers and presents his cyber farm, full of all sorts of technical innovations that should simplify every aspect of working life. The advances in technology are world-class, yet ...
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Man from Podolsk
Chelovek iz Podolska
Semyon Serzin
Russia / 2020 / 92 min
A tongue-in-cheek, Kafkaesque reality satire from Russia about police officers who lock up a young man out of a sense of altruism. By means of dance and music they get to know one another better, and even end up discussing the German band ...
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The Time She Comes
Kogda ona prihodit
Alexander Choi
Russia / 2020 / 97 min
An unsuccessful man meets a woman with psychic abilities who helps him to achieve new success. His life doesn't only change for the better however; unforeseeable events occur that he can find no explanation for.
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The End
Konets fil'ma
Vladimir Kott
Russia / 2020 / 102 min
A successful director caught in a crisis: Mitya is fed up with the film industry. His thoughts are dominated by Marcello Mastroianni, who encourages him to finally get back to film-making as an art form rather than make mainstream series. After an ...
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Loan Shark
Lihvar
Nemanja Ceranic
Serbia / 2020 / 88 min
Turbo-folk gets the nod over country in this film noir that comes complete with western motifs and a good pinch of black humour. Back in the Vojvodina debt collector Munir finally hopes to retire; his plans are thwarted however on what should be his ...
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A Colorful Dream
Barevný sen
Jan Balej
Czech Republic / 2020 / 74 min
An imagination for freedom. A group of travelling performers falls into the clutches of a perfidious dictatorship and yet refuses to be defeated. Making reference to both historical and current events, this animated political thriller looks at a ...
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Garbage Theory
Űrpiknik
Ákos Badits
Hungary / 2020 / 80 min
Romantic sci-fi dramedy meets feel-good musical: the autistic scientist Panna meets Boy, a clumsy alien with a Beatles look. Together they are looking for the 60s/70s cult pop singer Zoltan Zaratnay, whose song Boy and its ability to move the ...
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The Defender
Ochránce
Tereza Kopáčová
Czech Republic / 2019 / 129 min
From the classroom to the underworld. In this gripping “Czech Noir” crime series, set in an unusual setting, youth counsellor Aleš Pelán is sent to schools in order to investigate mysterious cases of bullying and sexual harassment which, in ...
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