THE WINDSEEKER BY MIHAI SOFRONEA

Produced by Libra Film, Romania

Co-produced by Chouchkov Brothers, Bulgaria

 

Funded by: CNC Romania, Media Development Fund, Bulgarian National Film Center

 

Drama /DCP/ 110 min.

Romania / Bulgaria

 

SYNOPSIS:

Radu is running away from death, as he had been running away from life, living in a continuous inertia. The waiting for death will transform itself into the forgetting of it. And in the forgetting of death Radu will discover the meaning of life..

 

Written and directed by: Mihai Sofronea

 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Mihai SOFRONEA graduated the University of Theatre and Cinema of Bucharest (UNATC), departure point for so many „New Romanian Wave” cinema artists. He worked along the years as a first assistant director for various prestigious feature films (especially with C. Porumboiu), TV series, promo and videos. He now directs for cinema, television and publicity. In 2011 he co-founded the independent production company DANUBIUS FILM PRODUCTION, which allowed him to produce the short films Waiting for the Sunrise (Best Short Film at Cottbus IFF 2011) and The Tree (2014). The Wind Seeker is his first feature.

 

 

STRAHINJA BY STEFAN ARSENIJEVIC

Produced by: Art and Popcorn Motion Pictures (Serbia)

Co-produced by: Focus Fox (Hungary), Les Films Fauves (Luxembourg ), Surprise Alley (France), Chouchkov Brothers ( Bulgaria)

 

Funded by: Serbian Film Center, Creative Europe Media Slate, Film Fund Luxembourg, CNC, Bulgarian National Film Center

 

Drama /DCP/ 110 min.

SERBIA/ HUNGARY / LUXEMBOURG / FRANCE / BULGARIA

 

SYNOPSIS:

Strahinja, a 22-year-old refugee from Ghana, does his best to integrate in Serbia, works hard to get the asylum, volunteers in Red Cross, tries to make money in the black market, struggles to survive in the Refugee Camp. But his greatest fight is to win back the woman he loves.

 

Written by: Stefan Arsenijevic, Bojan Vuletic

Directed by: Stefan Arsenijevic

 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Stefan Arsenijevic is born in Belgrade in 1977.Graduated Film and TV Directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, where he now teaches film directing at the master studies.

For his short films won over 30 national and international awards, including Golden Bear at Berlinale, European Film Academy Award and nomination for the Oscar. His first feature "Love and Other Crimes" premiered at Berlinale in 2008 and won several awards at the international festivals.

 

 

 

DREAMER BY VLADIMIR TODOROV

Produced by Chouchkov Brothers.

 

Supported by Bulgarian National Film Center

 

ANIMATION / DCP/ 10 min.

BULGARIA

 

Writter, directer and animator: Vladimir Todorov

 

Producers: Viktor Chouchkov and Vladimir Todorov

 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Vladimir Todorov is a film concept artist, author and illustrator with over twenty five years of experience in the film industry. He has worked for almost all major film studios like Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Universal, Paramount, Fox, Disney, on features like “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, “Stuart Little 1&2”, “The Polar Express”, “ A Christmas Carol”, “Alice in Wonderland” and many others.

 

 

LIVING MAN BY OLEG NOVKOVIC

DIRECTOR: OLEG NOVKOVIC

PRODUCER: SALT PRODUCTIONS (SERBIA), OSTLICHT FILMPRODUKTION (GERMANY), CHOUCHKOV BROTHERS (BULGARIA)

 

DRAMA/ SERBIA/ GERMANY/ BULGARIA/ 100'

 

SYNOPSIS:

This is a story about a man who realizes one day that his daughter is pregnant and that his son is not his. Deeply disappointed, he decides to change things, abandon home and continue where he ceased, a long time ago, with free, unbridled, and true life. In nocturnal euphoria caused by this newly found freedom, the man has a heart-attack and dies.

 

Then he awakes. Happy as a small child, he goes on seeking forgiveness from those he sinned. He returns to his children and wife. The man decides to accept his life and to give it to others.

 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Oleg Novkovic was born in Belgrade in 1968. He is one of the most significant Serbian directors. He has directed not only a multitude of feature films as well as documentaries, but also theater plays. He is a lecturer of Film Directing in the Faculty of Dramatic Arts.