18th FREE ZONE Film festival

films


INTERNATIONAL SELECTION

RABIYE KURNAZ VS. GEORGE W. BUSH

A mother turned to many institutions in an attempt to save her son. Rabia Kurnaz’s son, Murat, is detained in Guantanamo, a prison from which there is no way out.

1341 FRAMES OF LOVE AND WAR

Film depicts the heavy cost that comes with documenting atrocities and wars. It provides an intimate portrait of the artist and a reflection on memory, violence, and identity.

UTAMA

At the center of the story is a couple of elderly herders who have lived their entire lives on the dry plains of Bolivia and despite all the major difficulties, they are not ready to leave.

THE ECLIPSE

Nataša Urban returns to the eclipse as a metaphor in a thoughtful film about growing up during the war in the former Yugoslavia, testified by her family and acquaintances.

GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE

Good luck to you, Leo Grande is a hilariously funny but also touching and serious film about the fact that it’s never too late for sex, intimacy, and love (for oneself).

TURN YOUR BODY TO THE SUN

Did Sandar Vajulin betray the Motherland or did she betray him? In search of what her father always kept silent about, Sana reveals to us one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century.

REGIONAL SELECTION - BALKAN HORIZONS

BROADWAY

Nellie found herself in Broadway, an abandoned Athenian entertainment complex squatted by a small community of dancers, vagabonds, thieves, and a captive monkey.

THE BUILDING

The film follows seven days in the life of the tenants of a building in Sisak’s industrial suburb, whose gray facade begins to acquire colors – the artist begins to paint a mural on the building.

METRONOME

The last days of first love in Ceaușescu’s Romania. Anna, a seventeen-year-old teenager, learns that in a few days her boyfriend will flee the country for good.

VERA DREAMS OF THE SEA

Vera’s life changes radically after her husband’s suicide. She has to face the reality of going against the deep-seated gender issues of our times.

BURNING DAYS

Emre, a young prosecutor, gets drawn into a corrupt political game and a murder case. Being in a homophobic environment doesn’t help his cause.

BIGGER THAN TRAUMA

If you had survived a war and the past still weighed heavy on you, what would you do to regain the joy of living? A group of women is discovering who they could be without the trauma they had identified with.

EU ZONE OF CHANGE

FULL TIME

This psychologically multi-layered film follows the story of a single mother who refuses to give up on a better job, desperately trying to provide a decent life for her children and herself.

MY IMAGINARY COUNTRY

A new film by the great Patricio Guzmán, the director of The Pearl Button and The Cordillera of Dreams, and a visionary who dreams of the freedom of Chile.

WRITING WITH FIRE

An award-winning documentary that shows what it means to be a woman and a journalist in marginalized communities in India nowadays.

GREEN ZONE

THE TERRITORY

The struggle of the Uru-eu-wau-wau indigenous people against the destruction of forests was caused by illegal settlers and a group of non-native farmers of the Brazilian Amazon.

THIS STOLEN COUNTRY OF MINE

In Ecuador, an indigenous leader and a journalist fight against China plundering their country’s natural resources and taking control of political events.

4 SUNS & PIANO

A Hymn to Nature – a poetic song in celebration of Nature and also a Requiem for Nature – an ardent lament for the extinction and vanishing of Nature.

BORDER FREE ZONE

ZUSAMMENLEBEN

The documentary reveals how the culture of Vienna is transmitted to migrants during integration courses..

THAT KIND OF SUMMER

Invited to a rest home to explore their sexual issues, three women spend their days and nights trying to tame their inner demons.

RIMINI

Richie Bravo is a forgotten singer who entertains pensioners in Rimini during the winter with “wurlitzer” melodies. After his mother’s funeral, a surprise visit forces him to face his life’s failures.

WOMEN LINE

BETTINA

An exciting and unique biography of an artist who lived and created both in East and West Germany.

NELLY AND NADINE

A love story between two women who fall in love on Christmas Eve 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

DANCING PINA

Pina’s choreographies are danced, they are lived.

SELECTION 14+

INNOCENCE

Innocence – a film about what it means to grow up in a country that forces you to become a soldier.

THE QUIET GIRL

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

WAR PONY

War pony follows the interlocking stories of two young Oglala Lakota men growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Bound by their shared search for belonging, each of the young men grapples with a world built against them.

SELECTION 8+

FULL OF GRACE

Sister Marina, a very unorthodox nun, is sent to a boarding school for boys where, little by little, she becomes something very close to the family they never had.

DREAMS ARE LIKE WILD TIGERS

Twelve-year-old Ranji has one dream only: to stand in front of the camera with his hero, Bollywood superstar Aamir Roshan. But dreams don’t come true by themselves…

CAPTAIN NOVA

A fighter pilot travels back in time to save the future world from environmental disaster, but a side-effect turns her young again and no-one takes her seriously.

FREE ZONE JUNIOR / FUTURE IS HERE

200 BLOODS

The tradition of the wisdom of the word in the reconciliation of 200 blood feuds and as many wounds by Halil Kleçka, is depicted by the reminiscence of his son, Alush.

BLOSSOMS INVERTED

Hub, abandonement, symbiosis, alienation, minorities, collective memory, confessions in the hub of Prizren’s abandoned train station.

DEDI

The diary, the only asset to never forget the most beautiful moments in life. Ded’s most beautiful trace is that those events live forever. Each journey is written with special care and full of love.

DEVIL'S MUSIC

A strong mislead. Prejudice. Denigration. What is Rock and Metal music all about?

AN EPITAPH FOR THE FORGOTTEN

For the first time in a long time, Šaban Šarenkapić and the gathered citizens visit the Jewish cemetery in Novi Pazar and find it in its dignified condition.

THE PEAR, NEVER FALLS FAR FROM THE TREE

From snow-covered and bare trees in winter, to beautiful and ripe pears in summer, this story follows an orchard on the slopes of Fruška gora, and a father who will push through the hard agricultural season alone for the first time.

PRISON ROMANCE

A love story of a teenage, during the last war in Kosovo 1999–2000, love expressed in letters…

SAFE

The story of abuse, a young girl experienced. How a few turns of events made her home an unsafe and toxic place.

THE ART OF HEALING

“The Art and the Medicine, these are my two things.” A film about Fatos Pula, who made the connection between his two passions that come from different worlds, but not only. He recounts how he integrated art into his profession to create his physio-therapeutic inventions, involved zealously in many spheres, always to heal and help others.

FIRST TWO STEPS
IN FOCUS: AVI MOGRABI

FIRST 54 YEARS: AN ABBREVIATED MANUAL FOR MILITARY OCCUPATION

The new film by the great Israeli documentary filmmaker Avi Mograbi is a testimony of Israeli soldiers about the occupation of the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

AVENGE, BUT ONE OF MY TWO EYES

A documentary on the treatment of Palestianians by members of the Israeli army.

BETWEEN FENCES

Chen Alon and Avi Mograbi decide to start a theater workshop with people detained in a detention center in the Israeli desert near the Egyptian border.

MONICA VITTI TRIBUTE
KINOKAUCH PRESENTS

LUZZU

A story about tradition and transition. A fisherman from Malta and his dreams to financially support his family by fishing and the challenges that every new age brings.

GORBACHOV. HEAVEN

The last interview with the former president of the USSR, one of the most influential figures of the last century. His view of Russia then and now in the light of ongoing events is more current than ever.

THE JUMP

In 1970, a Lithuanian sailor made a desperate leap for freedom from his Soviet vessel to a US Coast Guard cutter, but the Americans sent him back – inciting one of the Cold War’s most complex and suspenseful political blunders.

THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN

His own body turned into a living work of art, Sam, a Syrian refugee, will soon realize to have sold away more than just his skin.

LAMB

A childless couple discovers a mysterious newborn on their farm in Iceland.

HONEYLAND

The last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return to the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.

THE RESTLESS

Leila and Damien are deeply in love. Despite his bipolarity, he tries to pursue his life with her, knowing he may never be able to offer her what she desires.

IVAN

Caught amid a violent corruption affair, a young woman is forced to make an impossible choice between the man she obsessively loves and her newborn son.

CORPUS CHRISTI

Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. He has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister to a small-town parish.

SLOBODNA ZONA I CINEPLEXX

CORSAGE

Empress Elisabeth of Austria celebrates her 40th birthday. She is increasingly eager for knowledge and a life that is not restrained by a court corset.

GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE

Good luck to you, Leo Grande is a hilariously funny but also touching and serious film about the fact that it’s never too late for sex, intimacy, and love (for oneself).

ARMAGEDON TIME

A brilliant cast led by Anthony Hopkins paints a portrait of American society and its opposites through the story of two boys growing up in the Reagan era.

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