Khlebnikov and Meschchaninova capture the essence of long-term relationships at the point when the firework bursts of highs and lows have been replaced by the dripping tap of minor annoyances that are becoming harder to ignore.
A paramedic and a junior doctor find themselves on the verge of a break-up.
(Country: Russia, Finland, Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Boris Khlebnikov; Writer: Boris Khlebnikov, Natalya Meshchaninova; Stars: Galina Averyanova, Irina Gorbacheva, Polina Ilyukhina, Vladimir Kapustin, Anna Kotova, Ivan Kudashov, Maksim Lagashkin, Evgeniy Muravin, Sergey Nasedkin, Tatyana Rasskazova, Aleksandr Samoylenko, Nikolay Shrayber, Albina Tikhanova, Sergey Udovik, Anna Ukolova)
Birds Are Singing In Kigali
( Ptaki śpiewają W Kigali)
We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save the daughter of a colleague whose family has been murdered, and she takes her to Poland. But the woman returns to Rwanda to visit the graves of her loved ones.
(Country: Poland; Year: 2017; Director: Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze)
Deals with a human story rather than making political points.
A TV reporter is tasked with painting memorial portrait for a coworker who died in a tragic accident that he survived. His colleague’s daughter becomes his guide.
(Country: Romania; Year: 2017; Director: Iulia Rugină; Writer: Ana Agopian, Oana Rasuceanu, Iulia Rugină; Stars: Andi Vasluianu, Voica Oltean, Dorin Andone, Ioana Flora, David Mihai Blaj)
Keep The Change tells an intricate love story, featuring people we rarely get to see on the big screen
The unlikely love story of two people who meet in a support group.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Rachel Israel; Writer: Rachel Israel; Stars: Samantha Elisofon, Brandon Polansky, Will Deaver, Nicky Gottlieb, Jessica Walter, Christina Brucato, Johnathan Tchaikovsky, And Palladino, Evander Duck Jr., Sondra James, Jennifer Brito, Tommy Beardmore, Alex Emanuel, Tibor Feldman, Macy Cassera, Anna Suzuki, Kurt Enger, Charlton Lamar, James Brickhouse)
Shortly after the first democratically elected president of Georgia came to power he was ousted in a military coup. He sets out for the mountains with a group of loyalists to regroup with his supporters.
(Country: Georgia, France, Germany; Year: 2017; Director: George Ovashvili)
The Line
(Čiara)
Adam Krajňák is head of the family and also boss of a gang of criminals smuggling cigarettes across the Slovak-Ukrainian border. The failure of one of the transports triggers an avalanche of consequences that compels him to question his own boundaries, none of which he had planned on crossing until now.
(Country: Slovak Republic, Ukraine; Year: 2017; Director: Peter Bebjak)
Little Crusader
(Křižáček)
Little Jan, the only descendant of the knight Bořek (Karel Roden), has run away from home. His anxious father sets out to find him but his despair at the fruitless search gradually starts to overpower him.
There are a lot of characters, but they gradually flow together to build a fractured patchwork of what it means to be a veteran of messy conflict on any side.
When, less than two decades since the war ended in Yugoslavia, a diverse group of veterans gathers at a remote mountain hotel to undergo days of therapy, it’s hard to expect absolute harmony.
(Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Alen Drljević; Writer: Alen Drljevic, Zoran Solomun; Stars: Boris Isakovic, Leon Lucev, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Sebastian Cavazza, Ermin Bravo, Boris Ler, Ivo Gregurevic, Primoz Petkovsek, Nermin Karacic, Mirko Zecevic-Tadic, Izudin Bajrovic, Jasna Djuricic, Miralem Zupcevic, Hfz. Elmir Masic, Affan Zisko)
Van Eck holds his own well in the central role whilst Taylan delivers a complex performance.
Gaza lives with his father Ahad on the shores of the Aegean Sea. The intelligent kid would like to continue his studies, but Ahad sees his son’s future differently. He gets Gaza to help with his side business – smuggling refugees from the Mideast.
(Country: Turkey; Year: 2017; Director: Onur Saylak; Writer: Onur Saylak, Dogu Yasar Akal, Hakan Gunday; Stars: Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Hayat Van Eck, Turgut Tuncalp, Tankut Yildiz, Tuba Büyüküstün, Kagan Uluca, Ahmet Melih Yilmaz, Ugur Arslan, Pervin Bagdat, Lara Aysal, Onur Akgülgil, Amed Ali, Salih Alkan, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Hayat Van Eck)
