Marjan and his group of friends are disturbed by a young couple of foreign nationality moving to their suburbs. Through a secret filming of the young lovers the tragic fates of these friends, who keep blaming others for their own misfortune, are revealed. Suburbs is a film of developing xenophobia and nationalism. It is a story about the suburbs in the human soul.
Ayshe, a woman of approximately 60 years, lives in a village of Anatolia within a family where it makes a little function of grandmother for Mehmet, a 10 year old boy. But as from the day when his/her elder sister dies, Ayshe starts to be folded up more and more on itself. The arrival at the village of an unknown, Tanasis, makes him become aware that it is impossible for him to keep secrèt longer the true identity which is his: girl of orthodoxe Greeks pontic who lived in Turkey, Ayshe lived 50 years earlier the long walk of deportation during which his/her parents lost the life. She then was separated from her brother then adopted with her sister by a Turkish family. One half-century later, Ayshe leaves for Greece on the traces his/her brother.
Blood-brothers Serafim and Vitomir are the protagonists of this story. Longtime friends, the two share risks and very little profit, which they obtain by smuggling goods from Italy into Socialist Jugoslavia. Their growing fame raises the curiosity of criminal Sefket Ramadani, a bloodthirsty individual whose name sends shivers down many-a-spine. He summons Serafim and Vitomir and asks them to take part to a bank robbery, granting them eternal richness. Only too late they realize that the operation is in fact a set-up: Serafim gets caught by the police, while Vitomir makes a cowardly escape; diving into the Adriatic Sea, and swims his way to the coasts of Italy, where he proclaims himself a political refugee and adopts the fictitious name of Vito Genovese. In years, former Vitomir makes a healthy and solid criminal career. A happy life, one might say, if it is wasn't for the recurrent memory of his blood-brother Serafim perishing in a Jugoslavian prison. Half a century goes by. A civil war has fragmented Communist Jugoslavia into a group of smaller republics and Vito Genovese is breathing his last wish into the ear of Santino, his one and only son.
Somewhere near the border, deep in the Czech countryside. A rundown bar is the meeting-place for a few guys, who have seen better days themselves. They meet to watch the World Ice Hockey Championship – Czechoslovakia’s national sport – on an old black-and-white television-set. Karel, the owner of the long-bankrupt bar, still believes in his business and the love of his wife Zdena – but she already has her eye on the elegant and vain bus-driver Milan. Neurotic Pavel from Prague can, when drunk, tell the winner of the next match. Josef is a descendant of the Gypsies – at least, that’s what the others, who make jokes about him, believe. These men put all their hope in the Czech team – and anybody who applauds a good move by the Canadians is not a real Czech, at least in their eyes. CHAMPIONS is a black comedy about illusions that have been destroyed long ago.
A day in life of drug dealer and his customers.
This beautiful and moving feature, set in modern-day Kazakhstan, depicts the hard choices a young man makes when he’s caught between poverty, crime and love, guided only by his wits and his better nature.
Set on a collective farm in the early 50s, Marina Razhbezhkina's debut feature is conceived as a reminiscence by the protagonist's dead son. His mother, Antonina Gusova (Ludmila Motornaja), raises her two sons and confronts the problems of a husband who has lost both legs and is unable to work. The only woman driver of a combine harvester in the region, she becomes the acknowledged champion and is awarded a Red Banner in recognition. She regularly patches the banner, which is being eaten by mice, and continues to win the award. This is a clever and multi-layered film in which the realities of the Communist Dream still exert some force. Despite deprivation, life has vitality, and the child's view of the home, with its goats and geese, has a reality lost in the uncaring present. The images of the female driver, juxtaposed with an endless landscape, are impressive, constructing an ambiguous interplay with the stereotypes of Socialist Realist art. Above all, perhaps, this strongly poetic film creates a sense of the value of the lives of those living in apparent obscurity.
Mr.Lazarescu is 63 years old and lives in a block of flats, together with his three cats. His wife died eight years ago and his daughter has moved to Canada. It is a saturday evening, Mr lazarescu doesn't feel too well, so he calls for the ambulance. Until the paramedics arrive, he tires to ease the pain with something from his own supply of medecins. Because he is short of the pills he needs, he asks for his neighbours' help. Sandu and Miki, the neighbours interrupted from their domestic activity, give him the first aid, although they can smell he's been drinking. Then the ambulance arrives...
Story about strange, impossible love between Turkish girl Eiten and Bulgarian Ivan.