short films, eng subtitles, 16+
A Handful of Stones / Kamen u ruci by Stefan Ivancic (Serbia, 2017, 14 min)
Ivica is an 11-year-old who spends his days with friends, roaming around the unexplored grounds of an industrial town in Serbia. Bitter and agitated, he's about to find out that his parents are separating.
Breath / Dah by Ermin Bravo (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018, 13 min)
Igor works at the rehabilitation center where Edita is being treated. A random encounter will develop into an unusual relationship. Without any word, two creatures will recognize and change each other. What happens when you share the last moments of your life with a stranger?
2018 Sarajevo FF (Best Short Film)
A Siege / Ostrom by István Kovács (Hungary, 2018, 23 min)
A lonely woman in war-torn Sarajevo embarks on a journey to find water, and neither her neighbours nor sniper fire can stop her.
2018 Student Academy Award
I Can Barely Remember the Day / Malo se sjećam tog dana by Leon Lučev (Croatia, 2018, 20 min)
A searingly honest snapshot of pain, guilt, conflicting loyalties, and the things we leave unsaid to protect the ones we love.
2018 Locarno IFF (competition)
Marica by Judita Gamulin (Croatia, 2017, 18 min)
A middle-aged housekeeper decides to leave her family. The film follows the day she finally wins her freedom – how she spends it and what scares her. Can Marica, a woman who has spent her whole life going with the flow, now start swimming upstream?
2018 Croatian Film Days (Best Cinematography)
2018 Karlovy Vary IFF (EFP Future Frames)
Morski Briz by Cecilia Ștefănescu (Romania, 2018, 28 min)
At the end of the summer, Laura Vasiliu, a 60-year-old lady, leaves with her old friend for holidays to a village on the Bulgarian seacoast. A stranger shows up and disturbs what is supposed to be a quiet vacation.
2018 Sarajevo FF (competition)
Peloid by Bojan Stijović (Montenegro, 2018, 19 min)
Roman is a respectable piano teacher who has been out of work since getting divorced. He goes on a trip to the Institute of Physical Medicine in order to visit his father who he has not seen for years. This won’t be just an ordinary visit.
2018 Sarajevo FF (competition)
Would you Look at Her / Vidi ja ti nea by Goran Stolevski (Macedonia, 2018, 19 min)
A hard-headed tomboy spots the unlikely solution to all of her problems in an all-male religious ritual.
2018 Sundance FF (Jury Award)
2018 Let’s CEE (Best Short Film)