Official selection
Selectors: Nikolaj Nikitin and Dubravka Lakic

1. THE SEA INSIDE, Spain-France-Italy 2004, 125'
Directed by: Alejandro Amenabar
Cast: Javier Bardem, Belen Rueda, Lola Duenas, Mabel Rivera
Festival: Venice 2004
Awards: Venice- Grand jury prize (Alejandro Amenabar)
Coppa Volpi – Best actor (Javier Bardem)
Young Cinema Award for Best International Film
European Film Award - Best director (Alejandro Amenabar)
Best male role (Javier Bardem)
Golden Globe- Best Foreign Language Film
Golden Satelite- Best Foreign Language Film
Oscar- Best Foreign Language Film

"The Sea Inside" is the true story of Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign in favor of his right to die with dignity, right to choose life or death.

2. THE CHORISTS, France-Switzerland-Germany 2004, 96'
Directed by: Christophe Barratier
Cast: Gerard Jugnot, Francois Berleand, Jean-Paul Bonnaire
Festival: Karlovy Vari 2004
Awards: César - Best Music Written for a Film (Bruno Coulais)
Best Sound
European Film Award - Best Composer (Bruno Coulais)
Nominated for Oscar in 2005

Story about music profesor in orphanage in France after the war in 1945. who decided to form boys choir in strong beliefe that music could have positive effect on children.

3. SOPHIE SCHOLL-THE FINAL DAYS, Germany 2005, 117'
Directed by: Marc Rothemund
Cast: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Aleksander Held
Festival: Berlin 2005
Awards: Berlin- Golden Bear (Marc Rothemund)
Best femail role- Julia Jentsch
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Munich 1943. Brother and sister Sophie and Hans are members of White Rose resistance movement While they distributing flyers at the university they study on, genitor reports them to Gestapo, which is arresting them and interrogates for days.

4. UNO, Norway 2004, 103'
Directed by: Aksel Hennie, John Andreas Andersen
Cast: Aksel Hennie, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Bjørn Floberg, Espen Juul Kristiansen, Amed Zeyan, Martin Skaug, Aida Frusan, Liv Bernhoft Osa
Awards: Amanda Awards - Best Nordic Newcomer Director
Lübeck Nordic Film Days - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Kiev- FIPRESCI Prize

David is a 25 year-old who lives in Oslo, and whos future doesn ’t seem bright. He spends most of his time training at the local workout-studio with small criminals. At home, situation isn't much better: his father has cancer, his brother is mentally retarded and relationship with his mother is very bad.

5. FATELESS, Hungary-Germany-Great Britain 2005, 140'
Directed by: Lajos Koltai
Cast: Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra, Bálint Péntek, Dani Szabó
Festival: Berlin 2005

Fateless was a never-seen blockbuster in Hungary. It is a film based on the novel written by Imre Kertész's Nobel-prize winner.

6. ONE DAY IN EUROPE, Germany-Spain 2005, 95'
Directed by: Hannes Stöhr
Cast: Megan Gay, Oleg Assadulin, Péter Scherer, Miguel de Lira, Florian Lukas, Rachida Brakni, Boris Arquier
Festival: Berlin 2005

The story is placed in four cities- Moscow, Istanbul, Santiago de Compestela and Berlin on the Champions League final football match, which gives the whole situation a different perspective.

7. DELIVERY, Greece 2004, 100'
Directed by: Nikos Panayotopoulos
Cast: Thanos Samaras, Petros Aivazis, Alexia Kaltsiki, Nikos Kordonis, Erricos Litsis
Festivals: Venice 2004, Thessaloniki 2004
Award: Thessaloniki - FIPRESCI Prize

Story about young boy, pizza deliverer, who goes to the other part of Athen where he listenes the stories of depressed, rejected and angry people. It's a different point of view on the modern megalopolis, where dreams are basic right of every person.

8. DAYBREAK, Sweden 2003, 108'
Directed by: Björn Runge
Cast: Pernilla August, Ann Petrén, Jacob Eklund, Camilla Larsson
Festivals: Berlin International Film Festival 2004, Festróia - Tróia International Film Festival 2004
Awards: Berlin- Blue Angel (Björn Runge)
Silver Berlin Bear for the Outstanding Artistic Achievement

Lives of the main caracters in this film are filled with lies. Doctor (cardiologist) lying to his wife, midle age women lying to herself about who is to blame for her life unsucesses and married couple lying themselves about the reasons of their daughters dissapearance from their lifes.

9. CONSEQUNCES OF LOVE, Italy 2004, 100'
Directed by: Paolo Sorrentino
Cast: Toni Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adriano Giannini, Angela Goodwin
Festival: Cannes 2004
Awards: David di Donatello Awards - Best Actor (Toni Servillo)
Best Director (Paolo Sorrentino)
Best Cinematography (Luca Bigazzi)
Best Film
Best Screenplay (Paolo Sorrentino)

Titta is sitting alone in caffe all day long for eight year. What is he actually doing? On the first sight nothing, but this caracter is full of secrets.

10. THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU, Romania 2005, 153'
Directed by: Cristi Puiu
Cast: Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminita Gheorghiu, Mimi Branescu, Dana Dogaru
Festival: Cannes Film Festival
Award: Cannes - Un Certain View Award
Award of GAN Foundation

Mr Lazaresku is 63 years old and lives in his apartament with three cats Nusu, Mirandolina and Fritz. He is a widow for eight years now, and his daughter has mooved to Canada.

11. KING OF THIEVES, Germany-Slovakia-Czech Republic-France-Austria 2004, 101'
Directed by: Ivan Fíla
Cast: Lazar Ristovski, Iakov Kultiasov, Katharina Thalbach, Paulus Manker
Festival: Trieste Film Festival 2005
Awards: Czech Lion - Best Actor (Iakov Kultiasov)
Best Cinematography (Vladimír Smutný)
Best Music (Michael Kocáb)
Best Sound

Two Ucrain children, ten year old Babu and thirteen year old Mima, are sold by their father to an ex circus member which is now the head of the thief school in Germany. In this «school» children are being taught how to be good pick-pocketers and earn 500 Euros per day.

12. SHARK IN THE HEAD, Czech Republic 2005, 75'
Directed by: Mária Procházková
Cast: Oldrich Kaiser, Jana Krausová, Kristýna Leichtová, David Maj

Story of an older man who lives in his own world – a bit strange and naive, but filled with imagination.

13. ADAM & PAUL, Ireland 2005, 83'
Directed by: Lenny Abrahamson
Cast: Tom Murphy , Mark O'Halloran
Festival: Berlin 2005 (Panorama)
Awards: Irish Film and TV Awards – Best Director (Lenny Abrahamson)
Sophia Film Festival – Best Film

Adam and Paul have been life long friends, and now the thing that connects them the most is drug addiction. The film is describing one day in the lives of two friends, which is like all the others, completely dedicated to finding money for drugs.

14. THE INCIDENTS, Italija 2005, 90'
Directed by : Miloje Popovic, Alos Ramon Sanchez, Toni Trupia
Cast: Lando Buzzanca, Silvia Ferreri, Leo Gullotta, Ernesto Mahieux