Seduce me by Marko Santic
These Balkan films are nominated for the Skoda Film Award, the Award of the City Wiesbaden for Best Director, the Award of the Federal Foreigh Office for “artistic originality which creates cultural diversity” and the “Remembrance and Future” Documentary Award of the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”. Furthermore, a jury dispatched by FIPRESCI will hand to a film the International Critics΄ Award.
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism by Corneliu Porumboiu
The Last Black Sea Pirates by Svetoslav Stoyanov
Velvet Terrorists by Pavol Pekarcik, Ivan Ostrochovsky and Peter Kerekes
The same section also runs a short film programme called
“(Post) Socialism Revisited”. This programme surveys film and video work of the past five years of
Alternative Film/Video Belgrade, dealing with the (post-)socialist space and living conditions. The compilation was curated by
Greg de Cuir, selector and programmer for
Alternative Film/Video Belgrade, Europe΄s oldest festival of avant-garde film and video art. Out of the eight films in total, six come from the Balkan Region.
Finally the Romanian documentary
The Curse of the Hedgehog by Dumitru Burdala (2005, 93min) will screen in the
Specials section, while the same category will present a selection of eight short films from
The National Film Archive of Bosnia and Herzegovina.