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- DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsAleksandar BercekDejan CukicLeon LucevThe impact of a selfless deed of benevolence and heroism right in the middle of the raging Bosnian war inextricably intertwines the lives of five people who are still affected by its consequences, over a decade later.
- DirectorKonstantin BojanovStarsBarry KeoghanKim BodniaThure LindhardtPavel, an emotionally volatile and socially alienated young man, sets off across Europe in search of his idol, the enigmatic painter Arnaud. Desperately lonely, Pavel tries to adhere to the host of characters he meets along the way.
- DirectorFrank DobrinStarsGérard DepardieuDessy TenekedjievaNadejda StefanovaThe delicate story of the friendship between a man and a piglet, taking place in contemporary Bulgaria.
- DirectorPetar PopzlatevStarsPhilippe VolterItschak FintziSamuel FinziKesten is a picturesque village on the border between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece. A French sociologist named Franæois Denis comes to the village to study the risk of ethnic conflict in this part of the Balkans. He finds out that in a place situated only 100 kilometers from Kosovo there are Muslims and Christians capable of living in peace just as they have for hundreds of years. But what is far more interesting to this western visitor is meeting the local inhabitants: Vladimír, who fills all municipal posts from mayor to postmaster, a poet whose verse has never been published and who longs to see Rossellini's The Greatest Love one last time, and a smuggler who is willing to do anything for his mentally disabled brother. It's a fascinating and absurd, though harmonious, world where anything can happen - where even wine has flowed from the water taps...
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsEva KotamanidouVangelis KazanAliki GeorgouliGreece, 1939-1952: Fascist, Nazi, and Communist conflict, as seen through the eyes of a family of travelling provincial players.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsOmero AntonuttiEva KotamanidouMihalis GiannatosA rebel leader calling himself Alexander the Great escapes from prison and captures some English tourists to hold as hostages. He returns to his village and finds there a commune in existence.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsBajram SeverdzanSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicBranka KaticMatko and his son Zare live on the banks of the Danube river and get by through hustling and basically doing anything to make a living. In order to pay off a business debt Matko agrees to marry off Zare to the sister of a local gangster.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsUros MilovanovicMarija PetronijevicAleksandar BercekA grandson gives his grandfather a vow to go to the city to sell a cow and bring back a wife.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsMoreno De BartoliPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMirjana KaranovicA family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.
- DirectorSotiris TsafouliasStarsPigmalion DadakaridisDimitris KatalifosManos VakousisA professor of criminology tries to solve five completely unrelated murders whose only link is quotes from Pythagoras.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsEmir KusturicaMonica BellucciSloboda MicalovicA story that stretches across war, blossoming love and living as a recluse.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsChristos StergioglouMichele ValleyAngeliki PapouliaA controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offsprings in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsEvangelia RandouAris ServetalisCostas XikominosAt a Greek hotel in the off-season, a chamber maid, a man obsessed with BMWs, and a photo-store clerk attempt to film and photograph various badly reenacted struggles between a man and a woman.
- DirectorAthina Rachel TsangariStarsVangelis MourikisNikos OrfanosYorgos PirpassopoulosA fishing trip in the Aegean Sea among a sextet of friends becomes the perfect setting for a relentless contest of male dominance. Everything can spark a fierce competition; but, only one can wear the precious chevalier. Who will it be?
- DirectorBojan VuleticStarsMirjana KaranovicDanica NedeljkovicJovana GavrilovicMrs. J is depressed by the death of her husband, who passed away one year ago and she is planning to commit suicide as she can't deal with the problems of her family.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsNebojsa GlogovacDejan AcimovicKsenija MarinkovicA gay Croatian professor confronts his own xenophobia after agreeing to help his Serbian neighbor prepare for a citizenship exam, while the neighbor's wife cares for the professor's elderly homophobic invalid father.
- DirectorNikola KojoStarsNikola KojoVesna TrivalicZoran CvijanovicThis is a hilarious satirical comedy about life behind the camera.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsNikola KojoMilena PavlovicBranka KaticAngel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.
- DirectorZdravko SotraStarsVojin CetkovicKatarina RadivojevicDragan NikolicThe plot follows the story of Zona Zamfirova (Katarina Radivojevic), a local rich man's daughter, and the vicissitudes of her affair with Mane (Vojin Cetkovic), an ordinary goldsmith. As it was undesirable for the daughter of a rich man to marry a craftsman, the two are at first divided, with the possibility of Zona marrying the son of other rich people, Manulac. Everything is, however, changed as Mane organizes a successful conspiracy to keep Zona for himself.
- DirectorZdravko SotraStarsDragan MicanovicNatasa TapuskovicNikola SimicComedy about teachers and students at a high school in a small provincial town. Mihailo tries to win the heart of a girl his brother is also chasing.
- DirectorRadivoje AndricStarsSergej TrifunovicMarija KaranNebojsa GlogovacDuring one peculiar night, the lives of several interconnected people are changed, as they rapidly experience love, disappointment, joy, greed and remorse.
- DirectorMilorad MilinkovicStarsNikola DjurickoSonja KolacaricTara ManicTwo brothers, Lemi and Kiza, having spent all their money, try to relocate their dead grandfather from Belgrade to Vrsac at the lowest cost, but he goes missing along the way.
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsPavle VuisicDragan NikolicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicIt's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorDusan KovacevicStarsBora TodorovicBranislav LecicNatasa NinkovicAfter the collapse of the Yugoslavian government, a former secret agent, now a taxi driver, enters the office of a former university professor, now a firm director.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsDimitrije VojnovLazar RistovskiPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicA 10-year-old boy goes through variety of silly situations and confusions during the peak of Marshal Tito's cult of personality in 1950's Yugoslavia.
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsSlavko StimacDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicMira BanjacFor the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsDragan NikolicBogdan DiklicGorica PopovicOne week in a life of Branimir Mitrovic "Floyd", a young rally driver from the National Class (up to 785cc), dreaming of promotion to the higher category. He lives a carefree life of a Belgrade dandy boy, neglecting his girlfriend, avoiding his draft calls, and refusing to deal with any life responsibility in general. The decisive race on Saturday is only what he cares about.
- DirectorDusan KovacevicBozidar 'Bota' NikolicStarsDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicBora TodorovicMira BanjacConvinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, a man falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDusan PekicMilan MaricDragan BjelogrlicThis film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
- DirectorHana JusicStarsMia PetricevicNiksa ButijerArijana CulinaWhen Marijana's dominant father falls seriously ill, she takes over the role as head of the family. The new power constellation also gives her new freedom that she has to find out a way to deal with.
- DirectorZrinka Katarina MatijevicStarsFranka MikolaciTena Nemet BrankovMarija TadicThe Trampoline is not a romantic love story - it is a film about a powerful and sometimes double-edged love, and the darker side of a mother-daughter bond that has been stretched to breaking point.
- DirectorIgor BezinovicStarsAnte Zlatko StolicaMladen VujcicZeljko BeljanStola has been spending his summer in the sweltering haze of festival parties. But one day, he runs into Roko, an old acquaintance, who is on a mission to discover medieval frescoes at a nearby monastery. Roko convinces Stola and a random group of partygoers to join him in his search. However, when their bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, their brief excursion turns into an allegorical journey into the unknown.
- DirectorMilos RadovicStarsLazar RistovskiPetar KoracPavle EricStatistics show that during their career every railroad engineer working unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a story about the innocent mass murderers and their lives.
- DirectorStevan FilipovicStarsHristina PopovicSlaven DosloNikola GlisicOlja is a high-school history teacher married to a painter whose latest exhibition provoked violent reactions from Serbian nationalists. One night, a group of masked hooligans attacks her. They film the attack and upload the clip to YouTube. The next day Olja discovers that some of her students were responsible. She takes away their mobile phones and hastily decides to lock them in the school building, then disconnects the school phones and the Internet. Trapped in the school, students start to communicate with one another to try to solve the problem together. That night, a generation that was written off before they were even given a chance learns more than they expected about themselves and their classmates.
- DirectorPavle VuckovicStarsSlaven DosloJovana StojiljkovicMilos PjevacDepicts how digital communication, pornography, and vanity obstruct true emotions and love.
- DirectorVuk RsumovicStarsDenis MuricMilos TimotijevicPavle CemerikicIn the late 1980s, a boy has been found in the mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nobody knows how he came about in the wild, nor if animals fed and raised him.
- DirectorMaja MilosStarsIsidora SimijonovicVukasin JasnicSanja MikitisinIn the face of her family life falling to pieces, a social-media-obsessed teenage girl falls into a hedonistic world of sex, drugs, and abuse.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsCarole LaurePierre ClémentiAnna PrucnalAfter winning the "most virgin" contest, Miss Canada is married to a rich milk tycoon. But she quickly flees the marriage to experience the world around her, full of sweetness and anarchy.
- DirectorNikola KorabovStarsNevena KokanovaYordan MatevMiroslava StoyanovaThe film is a screen version of the novel by Dimitar Dimov (1909-1966) and deals with the conflicts and contradictions in Bulgarian society during a period stretching from the early thirties to the end of the Second World War.
- DirectorNikola KorabovStarsMilen PenevKosta TsonevVsevolod SafonovIn the short but heroic campaign the Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev leads a band of rebels from the Danube to the Balkan Range.
- DirectorNikola KorabovStarsAnton GorchevKatya PaskalevaStefan DanailovThe film shows Bulgaria after the First World War - different destinies, different turns on both sides of the political barricade. A life full of contradictions and passion.
- DirectorNikola KorabovStarsLyudmila SavelevaStefan DanailovRegimantas AdomaitisA Russian lady is taking trip back from France. In Bulgaria she meets someone and a burning love flares up between her and him. This love, which grows into a self sacrifice, makes Yuliya Vrevskaya follow the troops as a nurse in the war between Russia and Turkey (1877 - 1878).
- DirectorNikola KorabovStarsEleftery ElefterovLyuben ChatalovMaria HristovaThis is a film about old fashioned Bulgarian customs and moral rules. A pre-arranged marriage of two children is no obstacle to true love.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsToula StathopoulouYannis TotsikasThanos GrammenosA husband working in West Germany pays a visit back home to his village in Epirus and is murdered by his wife and her married lover.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsVangelis KazanKostas PavlouThanos GrammenosWhen a trade unionist is murdered in broad daylight, the suspects rounded up include Sofianos, who doggedly maintains his innocence. When a minister visits his cell, he tricks his warders and takes the man hostage, threatening to kill him.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsVangelis KazanEva KotamanidouGiorgos DanisOn New Year's Eve, a group of hunters finds the frozen body of a dead WWII partisan fighter. They spend the night debating what to do with it.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosGian Vittorio BaldiMarco BechisStarsAshot AdamyanGian Vittorio BaldiSonia BragaAn anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.
- DirectorStephan KomandarevStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicCarlo LjubekHristo MutafchievThe story of Alex, who, with the help of his charismatic grandfather, Bai Dan, embarks on a journey in search of his real self.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsSusan AnspachErland JosephsonPer OscarssonA bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicVladislava MilosavljevicMladen BudiscakTomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family. His love affair with the class enemy and his slow adaptation to the post-war realities could seal his doom.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsToni GojanovicSergej TrifunovicEmir HadzihafizbegovicA small border post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border in the spring of 1987. Frustrated and always drunk, lieutenant Pasic feels a strange pain in his groins. He seeks help from the only doctor among the soldiers, Sinisa, who diagnoses a sexually transmitted disease. Not wishing his wife to know about it and trying to find excuses not to go home, he declares a state of emergency, claiming that the Albanian army is preparing an attack against Yugoslavia. A joke transforms into war hysteria: soldiers dig trenches, Pasic grows wilder as the days go by, Sinisa embarks on a dangerous liaison, and his best friend Ljuba decides to leave the army. The situation slowly runs out of control...
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicBojan NavojecDaria Lorenci FlatzNikola is a man who knows how to really enjoy life; he's even able to rouse sympathy for his sinful ways. His brother, Braco turns a blind eye to his philandering although, with a broken marriage behind him, he doesn't have a clear conscience, either. Is there anything positive to be said about infidelity, or does it simply deserve the utmost contempt, particularly when it's more premeditated than spontaneous?
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsRade SerbedzijaErland JosephsonDusica ZegaracThis is a true story of the famous Variola epidemic outbreak in Belgrade.
- DirectorKrassimir KroumovStarsErland JosephsonSamuel FinziVassil MihajlovThe film tells the story of the incredible metamorphosis of a petty clerk. his homeless life pushes him to play various roles, in wish he gets interested and progressively entangled. The eagerly expected death, instead of rewarding his humiliating patience, suddenly stirs awake his sense of identity and his pride; while the false investigation, which has all the evidence necessary to convict him, shows him the way to escape instead - escape into absolute freedom, where moral principles are nothing but unnecessary attributes of a past age.
- DirectorDusan VukoticStarsIris VrusTomislav PasaricAbdoulaye SeckYugoslav-Czech fantasy/parable about a number of small children who discover and live on an enchanted island -- the first live action feature from Academy Award winning animator/director/writer Dusan Vukotic.
- DirectorKrsto PapicStarsIvica VidovicMirjana MajurecRelja BasicA poor writer discovers that a species of rats has banded together to impersonate humans and supplant them unnoticed, in a manner reminiscent of the transformations in Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros, or the covert conspiracy of pod-people in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This film's story is based on a book by the Soviet writer Alexander Greene.
- DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsKatrin CartlidgeRade SerbedzijaGrégoire ColinThree interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.
- DirectorEnki BilalStarsJean-Louis TrintignantCarole BouquetMaria SchneiderIn an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long ago for just this kind of contingency. But a rebel spy sneaks in, and although her nature is very quickly suspected, she is left to observe the raving of the decadent power class, who keeps wondering what happened to their leader, who has failed to show up.
- DirectorAlexandros AvranasStarsThemis PanouReni PittakiEleni RoussinouA chilling account of a horrendous family tragedy perpetuated behind closed doors. As chronic violence chips away at the household's elaborate façade, the shocking secret reveals that almost nothing is as it seems.
- DirectorMarios PiperidesStarsAdam BousdoukosFatih AlVicky PapadopoulouYiannis, a faded musician who is about to leave Cyprus for a better life abroad, sees his plans turned upside down when his dog crosses the Buffer Zone that separates the "Greek South" from the "Turkish North". Can he smuggle him back in?