Acting
Peasant girl Jagna is forced to marry the much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and disdain with the villagers and she must fight to preserve her independence.
Filip, a sophisticated university professor, goes with his wife to a spa on the coast. After a few of days spent in the comfy and monotonous ambiance of the hotel, their seemingly ideal marriage is over. Filip is left by his wife. Everything seems to indicate that his life is collapsing, but Filip, refined and armed with confidence, faces each new circumstance with unusual ease. Deep in the forest, a new fantasy world will break him down, but also give him a chance for a new beginning.
An intense friendship between Sara and Alisa comes to a strange and abrupt end after Sara opens up about urges beyond physical desire. Oppressed by her environment, Alisa becomes estranged, leaving Sara to struggle with solitude and repression which begins manifesting itself in a monstrous form.
In 19th-century Montenegro, the free mountain territories are surrounded by Turkish forces, isolated from the West and steeped in conservatism, patriarchy, and superstition. Morlak, a poet and bishop inspired by the historical figure Petar II Petrović Njegoš, leads his tribe in resisting the invaders. Gravely ill, he is sent to southern Italy in search of a cure. The journey takes him to a house in Naples, a city that contrasts sharply with his homeland’s isolated hills. As Morlak contemplates his existence, his loyal servant Djuko struggles with profound nostalgia, driven by the fear of his master’s death in a foreign land.
Reyhan realizes that she has lost her sense of smell during a short vacation. Although the possibility of a serious illness worries her, she will follow her instincts to regain her sense of smell instead of undergoing further tests.
A girl born in the former Yugoslavia returns to a mountain village her grandmother fled during the Greek Civil War. The place has become a trendy ski resort and no longer corresponds to her family memories.
Berna Tuna, a renowned academic has just died. Her husband, Macit, will take this opportunity to face past wrongdoings and reconnect with his long-neglected daughter İpek. His hope for a fresh start is put to test by his son Alp and his wife’s assistant Feyza, who are strongly attached to Berna’s legacy.
Cinematic observations and testimonies intertwine with interpretations of contemporary dancers, the author’s sculptural work, and the voices of actors who lend their voices to non-human protagonists: geological formations, infrastructural objects, and animals. The author of the film, whose family was deported from Yugoslavia to Germany during the Second World War, re-learns the Serbian language, and reflects on the notion of migration and progress.
A history teacher from Belgrade and his wife arrive in a Montenegrin seaside town in order to combat his debilitating depression, which burdens their relationship. While Nikolija does research in a museum, Damjan wanders aimlessly through the dormant town. Then he encounters an mysterious local lady and her grandson.
74-year-old dancer Sonja Vukićević moves through socialist-modernist spaces, her body echoing Yugoslavia's last mass performance.
After leaving the ship on which she works, Sanja finds herself stranded, with nowhere to go but home. The shipyard has filed for bankruptcy, leaving many workers out of work. A storm comes; one life is lost. Luka is waiting for the night in the woods. The night when everything could change.
A man forced to finally deal with his problems ends up in a strange, desolate space, which he can not leave until he puts all the pieces together.
Marko spends time in the abandoned apartment of his childhood in Belgrade. Traces of the past are being drawn and memories, both idyllic and traumatic, are combined. The family VHS archive shows his universe during 1998 and 1999: gatherings, pets, videogames, and moments of uncertainty reveal a common life embraced by an historical event.
Two teenagers protesting political repression must flee, taking with them only their love and a dog.
In a small apartment located in the concrete blocks of modern Belgrade, two artists are going through the personal creativity crisis in the time of global crisis. Minutes after being intimate, they reveal, through a causal talk, all the waste of their lives, as well as of the fictive lives they create.
Mira, a film producer, is exhausted by the complicated process as the shooting comes to an end. While wandering around the set, she encounters crew members who overwhelm her with problems that have no easy solutions. She is especially drawn to the melody only she can hear, which leads her to walk through the forest near the set. The shooting wraps up, and Mira decides to leave the film.
The story of nine years old boy Ivan, his pet hamster and Yuri Gagarin.
Mitrovica is a city in Kosovo ethnically divided between Albanians and Serbs. The landscape of the place frozen by conflict narrates two poems about the dying mothers. Two people seem to be lost in ruins and the cherry trees blossom.
A portrait of a Bektashi Muslim matriarch and her hard-working family shows gender equality blooming where least expected - in a rural community of pious Muslims devoted to family and tradition in a tobacco-growing village in the Balkans.
Beto a beekeeper is the guide in this poetic documentary on a Western Sierra Madre village in Mexico: where elders tend to animals while youth are in school, some of them rehearsing for a production of Romeo and Juliet.
