SEE Factory Sarajevo mon amour
Five uniquely moving films about motherhood—bubbling up in the grocery store, the cemetery, or even a car ride—come together in this omnibus film set in Sarajevo.
Eleonora Veninova
Carolina Markowicz
Teodora Mihai
Gabriel Tzafka
Urška Djukić
Yona Rozenkier
Yona Rozenkier
Dušan Kasalica
Neven Samardžić
Maša Šarović
Sharon Engelhart
Also Directed by Eleonora Veninova
Two aging inhabitants of a remote village lead a bitter fight over who dies first and gets the only remaining grave in the village.
Photographer Ana and university professor Filip are staying at their summer house when their peace is disturbed by the arrival of Maja, the teenage daughter of their old friends whom they haven’t seen in a long time. Slowly Maja grows infatuated with Ana, who is working on developing a photograph to illustrate the phenomenon known as the Sabattier effect. Maja’s advances deepen the cracks in Ana and Filip’s childless marriage and unravel the secrets they’ve kept from one another.
Detective Veli investigates the murder of a little girl with one hair as key evidence and a crime scene that makes her re-examine her own sanity and lifestyle
Based on a series of Facebook posts and rumors, group of high-school students suspect a friend of theirs is in serious trouble and take action to help her, without realizing that their "intervention" is getting them in even greater troubles.
Sara firmly disagrees about her granddaughter’s wedding plan. To convince her not to marry, she takes Andrea to her husband grave and begs him for a sign.
Also Directed by Carolina Markowicz
A brief story of a guy who's obsessed about having sex with ETs.
Suellen is a toll booth attendant who starts using her job to help a gang of thieves steal watches from people driving to the coast. But only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop.
Prostitutes of old age make their living in Praça da Luz, in São Paulo. Unusual and surprising accounts of five women who reveal in detail their experiences in all these years of profession.
Anka, 12, and Yelena, 45, know each other from the neighborhood grocery store where they spend their day, one inside, the other outside. One evening, an unexpected visit provokes an incident that both women will suffer from.
The story of Jonathas, an orphan who has been adopted and then "returned" due to his effeminate mannerisms. Based on true events.
The film is about the life story of Javier Juárez García, an Argentinian scale model figure who decided to live in São Paulo to seize the city’s real state boom. After a betrayal, he decides to change his life and work in architectural models around the world. But he never forgets about his real goal: to come back and take revenge.
Also Directed by Teodora Mihai
Georgiana Halmac is turning 15 this winter, but she has no time for teenage dreams when her mother, who's on unemployment, moves to Torino to find work. Georgiana is left in charge of her six siblings in a social housing condo on the outskirts of Bacau, Romania. Caught between adolescence and the responsibilities of adulthood, Georgiana does the best she can, improvising with parenting advice from the television and the occasional phone call with her mother. As she handles her own issues and high-school dramas, Georgiana must also deal with admonishing neighbours who threaten to turn the whole family into social services. With incredible calm and stoicism, Georgiana amazes as she holds everything together in an ingenious and delicate balance.
After many years in Paris, Damir, professional saxophonist, returns to Sarajevo for a unique concert. One of his friends asked him to bring a gift to her best friend, Elma, who is waiting for Damir with surprises...
Cielo is a mother whose teenage daughter is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. When the authorities offer no support in the search, Cielo takes matters into her own hands and transforms from housewife into a vengeful militant.
Also Directed by Gabriel Tzafka
A sailor returns home to Denmark for a single night and tries to track down his lost love whom he left many years ago.
Newlyweds Lisa and Jacob leave for their honeymoon somewhere in the Danish countryside. Their love and faith for each other will soon turn into bitterness and fear.
A possessive mother, a loving son, the fiancée's first visit, a mute witness... Four players around a pie.
A comic tale.
Also Directed by Urška Djukić
Silva, a keen middle-aged hunter, invites her teenage daughter Ana to a hunt for the first time, but the trip does not end as expected. A miniature reflection on femininity in a time of sexual equality.
A trip into grandmother Vera’s youth and the memories of her intimate life illustrate Slovenian women of the first half of the 20th century, who where easily perceived as mere objects for the satisfaction of men’s sexual needs. Suffering, fear, and resignation—as Vera experienced them throughout her life—are depicted in a humoristic animation that overcomes old taboos with imaginative strokes.
A misplaced pregnancy test creates confusion in the minds of grown-up children. Eva returns to her home town, to unresolved things from her past. Max has a new love affair. Nataša goes crazy. Izi's mother finds a positive pregnancy test and panics. Izi doesn't give a damn about anything.
Lucija, quiet and shy 15-year-old girl, enters the prominent Ljubljana’s Catholic high-school. If she meets her mother’s expectations about the grades, she will be awarded summer holidays at her aunt in Paris – a dream she has been having for years. Never having been practicing music, Lucija is surprised to be invited to join the school’s prominent girls’ chamber choir – a privilege offered to only the most talented first-year students. In the choir, Lucija meets the second year’s most popular and charismatic girl, Ana-Marija. After an intensive singing weekend at the convent, the two become friends.
A possessive mother, a loving son, the fiancée's first visit, a mute witness... Four players around a pie.
A trip into grandma's intimate life shows the status of Slovenian women in the first half of the 20th century.
Also Directed by Yona Rozenkier
A family from an Israeli kibbutz takes their ailing patriarch for a ride on a lazy Sunday in this warm and moving snapshot of their encounter with the ephemerality of the natural world.
Ben arrives to his native Kibbutz and plans to ask his distant father Albert to help him recover a family apartment looted in WWII. But Albert has other plans... Completely drunk, he has bet that he could cross the country from north to south on a tractor in less than a week.
Raz, a tired reserve soldier, guards a broken army truck and Radja, a Palestinian who broke the curfew. The two repeatedly attempt to jumpstart the truck, while a friendly donkey refuses to leave them alone.
Ten directors, Israeli and Palestinian embarked on a journey to create short films, fiction or documentary, inspired by water.
Sara firmly disagrees about her granddaughter’s wedding plan. To convince her not to marry, she takes Andrea to her husband grave and begs him for a sign.
It is Thursday and another war is hitting the northern part of Israel hard. Three brothers reunite in their childhood kibbutz to bury their father. Two days later the youngest has to go to war, and while he seeks guidance from his older siblings who have both experienced the battlefield, the homecoming soon spins out of control.
Also Directed by Dušan Kasalica
Story follows a group of chubby kids in weight loss camp, located in a seaside resort, far from a city, and their authoritarian Instructor who tries to teach his ideology grounded in "Men's Health" literature.
After many years in Paris, Damir, professional saxophonist, returns to Sarajevo for a unique concert. One of his friends asked him to bring a gift to her best friend, Elma, who is waiting for Damir with surprises...
The story follows a man who lives in an isolated farm with his wife. In the rugged mountainous area they live usual tedious rural life. It is full of rehearsed routine tasks around the farm and endless wandering through wild landscapes. Autumn is long and in such an environment he prepares atrocious crime. He puts on a woman's wardrobe and troubling ram. The man is left alone. People are saying there was a man…A very strange enchanted man…They say he wandered very far, very far…
Also Directed by Neven Samardžić
Fudo is a drug addict who decides to quit heroin and reconcile with his mother after his best friend dies. However, people continue to perceive him as an addict and refuse to believe he has really changed. Estranged from the people around him and tortured by feelings of guilt over his best friend's death, Fudo is at risk of returning to his old life.
Anka, 12, and Yelena, 45, know each other from the neighborhood grocery store where they spend their day, one inside, the other outside. One evening, an unexpected visit provokes an incident that both women will suffer from.
Also Directed by Maša Šarović
A young couple is living at his parents' apartment. Frustrated at not being able to provide for themselves, they fight. She decides something has to change.
After begging her to come back, Azra gets her daughter Lejla back at the airport. In the car, she tells her a surprising news and takes her to an unknown place where mother and daughter will revisit their roles.
In the focus of Djurdjevic's only seemingly "simple" plot are three urban 30-year-olds, stuck somewhere on the first life curves - either because of an inferiority to an employed wife, or because of their inability to prove themselves through superficial sexual adventures, or the overwhelming urge to humiliate his friends behind the "mask" of innocent jokes. However, the equally important protagonist of the play "Don't Bet on the English" - the protagonist who is both inside and outside them - is one of the essential demons of human nature: a passion for gambling, more precisely betting. An emerging form of this obsessive passion is, for Djurdjevic's heroes, betting on the results of matches of various national football leagues.
Also Directed by Sharon Engelhart
After begging her to come back, Azra gets her daughter Lejla back at the airport. In the car, she tells her a surprising news and takes her to an unknown place where mother and daughter will revisit their roles.