Synopsis:

The director plays a man who returns to his home village. We follow the daily life in the village from the hero’s perspective: relationships between the villagers, friendships and hostilities, existing rituals and traditions. Hero’s best friend is an alcoholic who beats up his own sister because she has disgraced her family by leaving her cruel husband. The villagers build barricades in order to prevent the influence of foreign world views.

color, 104 min

PROJECTION:

Saturday 09.06.2007 AT 20:00

Synopsis:

The two heroes of this film are Smadar (Smadar Sayar) and Mirit (Neama Shendar), eighteen-year-old Israelis who are currently in the army. They are completely different and cannot stand each other: Smadar is decisive, temperamental and outgoing while Mirit is an introverted and shy girl afraid of authority. Since their job is to patrol the streets of Jerusalem and identify Palestinians, they cannot escape each other.

color, 90 min

PROJECTION:

Monday 11.06.2007 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

The main actors in this film are the director and his actual wife and parents. He plays Isa, a university professor who is emotionally detached from his wife Bahar. Their dysfunctional relationship is additionally undermined by changes in the weather during their journey through three seasons: the story begins in the heat of summer, lasts throughout a rainy autumn and ends in a snowy winter.

color, 101'

PROJECTION:

Monday 11.06.2007 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

We follow one day in the lives of several twelve-year-old kids in a small Turkish village. Ömer is the son of the much respected imam of the community, who treats his son so badly that the son secretly prays for his father’s death. Yakup is in love with the village teacher, and after she finds out that Yakup’s father is also in love with her, he wishes for him to die as well. Yildiz balances between her obligations in school and at home, she takes care of her younger brother and her own mother w...

color, 111 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 12.06.2007 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

This is director Daniel Sánchez Aréval’s debut. It tells the story of Jorge who, after his father’s stroke, has to take over the family business and care for his father. Forgetting about himself and his own life, Jorge will spend the next few years working as a housekeeper, at the same time trying hard to finish school and constantly taking care of his father. Through his brother, Jorge meets Paul and finally faces his own wishes and needs.

color, digital, 105 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 12.06.2007 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

This film follows one day in the life of Malek, a young man who suffers from a sleep disorder. Like his mother, Malek is coping with the loss of love. The two of them go to sign papers that will officially confirm the death of his father, who has been missing for fifteen years following a war. Malek tries to find Zeine, his girlfriend who left him. He is not prepared to be left alone…

color, 88 min

PROJECTION:

Wednesday 13.06.2007 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

Óscar, while waiting for his girlfriend, enters a bar whose walls are covered in photographs. Barman Jotó explains to him that these are the pictures of all the bar’s clients and their friends that have been collected over the years in order to decorate the bar. Óscar is curious and asks Jotó questions about many photographs and so learns about different people’s stories from the past.

color, 91 min

PROJECTION:

Wednesday 13.06.2007 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

On the French Riviera, on a hill above Cannes, Maguy lives with colorful friends who she takes care of: her friend Katya, a male couple Francis and Doudou and the newly arrived Mirko and Stefan. The two of them moved to France from Serbia and Maguy employed them to run errands for her. Mirko is her lover.

color, 107 min

PROJECTION:

Thursday 14.06.2007 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

An alienated and resigned middle-aged man who once was a partisan returns to his hometown on an island for his cousin’s funeral. There he remembers his childhood, severe father, a Countess’s estate manager, and his first erotic experiences with the Countess’s daughter. This is Babaja’s most poetic film. It won many awards.

color, 35 mm, 110 min

PROJECTION:

Thursday 14.06.2007 AT 21:00