English Title: Sona and her family
Original Title: O Soni a jej rodine
Director: Daniela Rusnoková
Country: SK Year: 2006 Lenght: 35'

Young director, Daniela Rusnoková, selected one of the families living in the middle of the Rudňany Roma settlement, and followed their lives from 2004 to 2006.

English Title: Clouds
Original Title: Oblaka
Director: Andrea Slováková
Country: CZ Year: 2007 Lenght: 25'

A slightly meteorological film about the creation, behavior and blustering of clouds, about how the invisible (e.g. water in atmosphere) can become visible and in what way forming of ideas is similar to that of clouds. Also, a painter and a physicist participate talking about elements (the former one) and colors (the latter one).

English Title: The Dike of Transcendence
Original Title: A mulandóság gátja
Director: Gyula Nemes
Country: HU Year: 2001 Lenght: 10'

Shot over three years, this black-and-white pictorial study portrays life under the threat of demolition at the Kopaszi dam.

English Title: A Bar At The Victoria Station
Original Title: Bar na Victorii
Director: Leszek Dawid
Country: PL Year: 2003 Lenght: 55'

The unemployed thirty-year old men, Mark and Piotek, dread a feeling that there is nothing to wait for in their home town. Opposed to the defeatist neighbors, they succeed in resisting their fate and go look for jobs to London.

English Title: Testimony
Original Title: Svědectví
Director: Razvan Georgescu
Country: RO Year: 2008 Lenght: 52'

After being diagnosed with a brain tumor, the author of the film decides to undertake a voyage tracing the thin line between life and death, visiting artists who are terminally ill or who have been working on their final work of art in the hope that it will outlive or even save them.

English Title: SNOW-CRAZY
Original Title: SNOW-CRAZY
Director: Laila Pakalnina
Country: LV Year: 2008 Lenght: 52'

Mountain skiing is the most popular sport in Latvia, despite the fact that we have no mountains. Indeed, there can never be too much optimism in life...

English Title: A Portrait of Andrzej Wajda
Original Title: Andrzej Wajda - Working Portrait
Director: Maciej Cuske, Marcin Sauter, Piotr Stasik
Country: PL Year: 2007 Lenght: 52'

In 1957 he won the Silver Palm in Cannes for his film "Canal", along with "The Seventh Seal" by Ingmar Bergman. We meet him 50 years later...

English Title: Normalisation
Original Title: Normalizace
Director: Robert Kirchhoff
Country: SK Year: 2008

The film is a Slovak version of The Thin Blue Line, recounting the unsolved disappearance and murder of a young woman that happened thirty years ago...

English Title: Mother. Father.
Original Title: Oтeц. Maмa.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Country: RU Year: 2007 Lenght: 119'

In this new documentary, Nikita Mikhalkov pays tribute to his parents who played an important role in Russian culture of the 20th century.

English Title: Gyumri
Original Title: Gyumri
Director: Jana Ševčíková
Country: CZ Year: 2008 Lenght: 65'

About 25,000 inhabitants of the Armenian town of Gyumri perished in a powerful earthquake on 7 December, 1988. More than one-third of the victims were children.

English Title: Cooking History
Original Title: Jak se vařily dějiny
Director: Peter Kerekes
Country: SK Year: 2008 Lenght: 90'

A portrait of different military cooks from all over Europe who served in various armies and have witnessed the European wars of the 20th century.

English Title: Celebration of a Lonely Palm
Original Title: Slavnost osamělé palmy
Director: Juraj Johanides, Marko Škop
Country: SK Year: 2005 Lenght: 39'

This documentary film pays tribute to Elo Havetta (1838-1975), a solitary director, an author of only two feature films (Celebration in the Botanical Garden, and Wild Lilies) that belong to the best Slovak cinema.

English Title: Situation of the Street or the Czech Sea in 18 Tidal Waves
Original Title: Národ Sobě aneb České moře v 18 přílivech
Director: Jan Gogola, Jun.
Country: CZ Year: 2003 Lenght: 89'

A story of Prague's National Street (Národní třída) captured in the here and now.

English Title: 89mm from Europe
Original Title: 89mm from Europe
Director: Marcel Loziński
Country: PL Year: 1993 Lenght: 12'

An impression of a railway station on the border of Poland and Belarus, the former Soviet Union.

English Title: I Guess We'll Meet at Eurocamp
Original Title: Sejdeme se v Eurocampu
Director: Erika Hníková
Country: CZ Year: 2006 Lenght: 58'

A Czech village beyond its prime... There is no pub on the square yet but there is Eurocamp on its outskirts...

English Title: Crying Of Angels
Original Title: Anjeli plačú
Director: Zuzana Piussi
Country: SK Year: 2005 Lenght: 54'

For more than a year the documentary filmmaker Zuza Piussi followed the fates of several Slovak homosexuals.

English Title: 66 Seasons
Original Title: 66 Sezón
Director: Peter Kerekeš
Country: SK Year: 2003 Lenght: 86'

A document about a swimming pool in the city of Kosice, the place where, according to the filmmakers' slogan, 'history used to go to bath'.

English Title: Casino Transsyllvaniae
Original Title: Spílerek
Director: Róbert Lakatos
Country: HU Year: 2005 Lenght: 27'

Roma musicians are the heroes of this documentary film, directed by Robert Lakatos.

English Title: Jan Kaplický - Profile
Original Title: Jan Kaplický - Profil
Director: Jakub Wagner
Country: CZ Year: 2004 Lenght: 52'

A documentary portrait of a Czech architect and The London Future Systems Studio founder Jan Kaplicky.

English Title: The Life of an Agent, Police Training in the Kádár Era
Original Title: Az Ügynök Élete Belügyi Oktatás a Kádár-Korszakban
Director: Gabor Zsigmond Papp
Country: HU Year: 2004 Lenght: 82'

This film which works exclusively with secret police material sheds significant light on the mechanisms of the maintenance of power...

English Title: The Source
Original Title: Zdroj
Director: Martin Mareček
Country: CZ Year: 2005 Lenght: 75'

Looking at the broader context, the film explores the project of oil pipelines in Azerbaijan supported by the World Bank.

English Title: Other Worlds
Original Title: Iné svety
Director: Marko Škop
Country: SK Year: 2006 Lenght: 75'

Šariš in the East of Slovakia is a very specific border region between the East and the West—a borderline between rational individualism of the West and expressive emotionality of the East...

English Title: The Adventure of Anna Barbora – an Interplay
Original Title: Dobrodružství Anny Barbory – Mezihra
Director: Vít Janeček
Country: CZ Year: 2008 Lenght: 54'

Jakub Patočka was addressed by a friend who asked him for help in her effort to adopt a little girl she and her sister took care of...

English Title: History of Jaroslav Šabata
Original Title: Dějiny Jaroslava Šabaty
Director: Vít Janeček
Country: CZ Year: 2007 Lenght: 78'

The film features the psychologist, politician and journalist Jaroslav Šabata who symbolizes half a century of Czech history.

English Title: A Lesson of Belarusian
Original Title: Lekcja bialoruskiego
Director: Mirosław Dembiński
Country: PL Year: 2006 Lenght: 56'

After the USSR collapsed, Belarus became an independent country and a humanistic Lyceum was founded in Minsk with the aim of raising an elite Belarusian intelligentsia.

English Title: Martin Slivka: The Man who Planted Trees
Original Title: Martin Slivka: Muž, ktorý sadil stromy
Director: Martin Šulík
Country: SK Year: 2007 Lenght: 90'

A colourful portrait of one of the most important figures in Slovak cinematography Martin Slivka.

English Title: A Journey into the Unknown, or A Holiday in the DPRK
Original Title: Cesta do neznáma aneb Dovolená v KLDR
Director: Linda Jablonská
Country: CZ Year: 2009 Lenght: 72'

One of Czech travel agencies offers a "journey into the unknown" in its catalogue, a sight-seeing tour of North Korea. This spring was the second time since 1990 when a regular group of Czech tourists set foot in the DPRK.

English Title: Ivetka and the Mountain
Original Title: Ivetka a hora
Director: Vit Janeček
Country: CZ Year: 2009

In a village called Litmanová in Eastern Slovakia, two girls, Ivetka and Katka, met Holy Mary each month between 1990 and 1995...

English Title: Partisan & Courtesan
Original Title: Partizántól kurtizánig
Director: Bojana Papp
Country: HU

Éva Kardos was born in 1924 as the niece of the infamous Hungarian communist dictator, Mátyás Rákosi. Her story starts with early immigration to Moscow, school years spent with classmates like Mao Ce Tung’s offspring, then as a teenage partisan during WW2...

English Title: Rabbit à la Berlin
Original Title: Królik po berlińsku
Director: Bartek Konopka
Country: PL Year: 2009 Lenght: 51'

The untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls. For 28 years Death Zone was their safest home...

English Title: Bye Bye Shanghai
Original Title: Bye Bye Shanghai
Director: Jana Boková
Country: CZ Year: 2008 Lenght: 114'

Jana Boková decides to find our what exactly the word "exile" means. Her first stop is Prague where—after a period of 40 years—she meets up with a friend from her school days, the philosopher Václav Bělohradský...

English Title: Phantom of Liberty II
Original Title: Přízrak svobody II
Director: Karel Žalud
Country: CZ Year: 2009 Lenght: 26'

In the so-called global age, a man is caught in the trap of time that he has set for himself and got stuck in it together with his freedom...

English Title: Obscurantist and His Lineage
Original Title: Tmář a jeho rod
Director: Karel Vachek
Country: CZ Year: 2010 Lenght: 120'

A feature-length film about politics, the economy, and social relationships, with a view of other cultures in the Czech Republic...

English Title: Lost World
Original Title: Letűnt világ
Director: Gyula Nemes
Country: HU Year: 2008 Lenght: 20'

In his latest film, director Gyula Nemes follows his previous visual study "The Dike of Transience" with a film of a related theme and form.

English Title: Moszny
Original Title: Moszny
Director: Róbert Lakatos
Country: HU Year: 2005 Lenght: 40'

Private homes that stood in the way of large housing estates in the '80s were demolished and the people were re-located; among them was the Moszny family. Only Jozsef Moszny never left...

English Title: Home Movie
Original Title: Home Movie
Director: Mišo Suchý
Country: SK, US Year: 2002 Lenght: 55'

Home Movie from the Slovak director Mišo Suchý is a personal message about emigration, feelings about comebacks and a journey back home. But home is already there over the ocean, in America...

English Title: Users' Manual
Original Title: Návod na použitie
Director: Jana Mináriková
Country: SK Year: 2009 Lenght: 16'

This piece of art was created as a special order for Creatures of the planet Perelandra that made a contact with creators of this movie in October 2007...

English Title: Kredens
Original Title: Kredens
Director: Jacob Dammas
Country: PL, DK Year: 2008 Lenght: 26'

Kredens is a very personal film on the mysterious Polish “March of 1968”, a time that until today evokes a lot of controversy inside Poland while it is largely unheard of outside.

English Title: Silence I
Original Title: Cisza I
Director: Marcin Bortkiewicz, Maciej Cuske, Robert Gliński, Bartosz Konopka, Tomasz Wolski, Edyta Wróblewska
Country: PL Year: 2003 Lenght: 19'

Kredens is a very personal film on the mysterious Polish “March of 1968”, a time that until today evokes a lot of controversy inside Poland while it is largely unheard of outside.

English Title: The Last Day of Summer
Original Title: Koniec lata
Director: Piotr Stasik
Country: PL Year: 2010 Lenght: 55'

The film is a poetic, emotional journey to the times of our childhood and a story about difficulties of entering the world of adults...

English Title: By the River
Original Title: Przy Rzece
Director: Magdalena Kowalczyk
Country: PL Year: 2006 Lenght: 11'

Dawn. The black figures appearing in the brushwood. They seem to be working. The sound of cracking branches, after a while we notice the movement of hatchets. Warsaw on the other side of the Vistula river unfolds itself. Contact: Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.

English Title: The Cure
Original Title: Kuracja
Director: Maciej Cuske
Country: PL Year: 2004 Lenght: 58'

Ciechocinek, a famous spa in Poland is visited each year by thousands of people. In a short period of time they want to be cured and feel better – both physically and emotionally. The characters of a film meet in one sanatorium – they get their medical treatment, but also enjoy their strolls in a summer sun, concerts and dancing parties. Three weeks spent together is not much, but may be enough to find happiness. Contact: Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.

English Title: The Shopkeeper
Original Title: W sklepie
Director: Thierry Paladino
Country: PL Year: 2006 Lenght: 14'

An all-goods store at the local social care institution. All sorts of customers visit the store – some just to do shopping, others, for instance, to sing a song. Contact: Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.

English Title: The Booth of Fortune
Original Title: Kilka mniejszych wygranych
Director: Lesław Dobrucki
Country: PL Year: 2008 Lenght: 15'

In the modern city there is no place for a small booth with lottery. It has to be demolished together with the close relations between its regular customers. Contact: Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.

English Title: Redemption Attempt of a TV Repairman Josef Lávička in Nine Scenes
Original Title: Pokus o duchovní nápravu opraváře televizí Josefa Lávičky v devíti obrazech
Director: Lukáš Kokeš
Country: CZ Year: 2008 Lenght: 14'

Stage-managed and manipulative picture, which can be viewed as an ironic pendant to poetic films celebrating the common sense, view into a static existence of a village alcoholic trying to cope with a text from the parish priest - within the context of the Christian rhetoric, the reconstructed commonness of the main character loses its meaningless nature, and the Man, on his way to catharsis through a catholic teaching, boozes away to a higher symbolic order.

English Title: Gustáv Husák Centre Stage
Original Title: V hlavní roli Gustáv Husák
Director: Michal Kubal , Robert Sedláček
Country: CZ Year: 2008 Lenght: 112'

Memories of eyewitnesses, a portrait of a left-wing intellectual viewed from different angles and illustrated with archive materials and a theatre mis-en-scene. A man who used power to promote the Communist Party policy in Slovakia only to become its victim when sentenced to life. A story of a career politic who became a representative of the Prague Spring when released, and then ended up being a president of oblivion, an icon of normalization and decay of the Czechoslovak state.

English Title: Junking
Original Title: Gubera
Director: Lehel Oláh
Country: HU Year: 2003 Lenght: 25'

A town, blocks of flats, flats getting rid of the insides they are made of. Ghostly piles of discarded things at the side of the road waiting for disposal. The director discovers reality in things that people left. As such, they represent the only assurance that the film will continue; through them the film can find fragments of past events. Recurring images of objects that reflect the history - refrigerators, sofas, wardrobes. The things can remember. They are standing piled up in front of the houses, recreating a landscape made of distant people and family situations. The things are an opportunity to get in touch with those who are disappearing but not yet dead, but still fading away. The things represent immobility; only those who are alive gather together and stay together before they come apart forever.

English Title: Osadné
Original Title: Osadné
Director: Marko Škop
Country: SK, CZ Year: 2009 Lenght: 65'

The village of Osadné lies on the farthest eastern border of the European Union. Local Orthodox priest Peter Soroka has buried 50 people in the past five years and baptized merely two children. Soroka’s civilian counterpart is Mayor Ladislav Mikuláško, a political record-holder who has been the village bigwig for 36 years. These two unusual local patriots decide to take the future of Osadné into their own hands and, with the help of Ruthenian activist Fedor Vico, seek help from the highest authorities. In his “document-toury movie,” Marko Škop follows the protagonists on a journey to the European Parliament in Brussels where he witnesses their efforts to involve a friendly European deputy in strengthening the tourist industry in order to save it.

English Title: Left Right Left Right
Original Title: Bal Jobb Bal Jobb avagy vitézségem története
Director: Erzsébet Rácz
Country: HU, DE Year: 2010 Lenght: 80'

In 2001 I moved from Budapest to Berlin. I received a package from the family on my father’s side that held letters and papers. The package forced me to confront my family’s legacy: My deceased father (I was 8 when he died), whom I had always taken for a common Hungarian vet, was a young officer in the WW2 and a member of a highly dubious right-wing order, the “Order of the Brave”. I felt betrayed by my father. My father’s siblings demanded that I join the Order to carry on the family dynasty. At first I refused and fled back to Berlin. After seven years, I’m returning to Hungary to confront my roots. I decided to rediscover my own identity. I resolve to enter the Order...

English Title: One out of 8
Director: Sabine Derflinger
Country: AT Year: 2009 Lenght: 90'

The personal story of two women, who are afflicted by breast cancer.

English Title: Disco & Atomic War
Director: Jaak Kilmi
Country: EE Year: 2009 Lenght: 77'

Disco and Atomic War tells the story of a strange kind of information war, where a totalitarian regime stands face to face with the heroes of popular culture. And looses. Western popular culture had an incomparable role shaping Soviet children's world-views in those days – in ways that now seem slightly odd. Finnish television was a window to a world of dreams that the authorities could not block in any way. Though Finnish channels were banned, many households found some way to access the forbidden fruit.

English Title: The Belgrade Phantom
Director: Jovan Todorovič
Country: SR Year: 2009 Lenght: 80'

The Phantom in the white Porsche has to be removed from the streets of Belgrade. "Fast and Furious" of the Socialist era at the end of the 70's and one of the most successful films of the Serbian cinema in the past 10 years.

English Title: Jan Hus - A Mass for Three Dead Men
Director: Miroslav Bambušek
Country: CZ Year: 2009 Lenght: 73'

Jan Hus – A Mass for Three Dead Men tries to recover the legacy of the medieval reformist priest Jan Hus who was burnt to death by inquisition for his criticism and calling for reformation of the Catholic Church in 1415. The story takes place in the late 20th Century and relates to history of territory recently known as the Eastern Block. Jan Hus introduces three individuals – Ryszard Siwiec, Oskar Brüsewitz, and Graham Bamford, who set themselves on fire to protest against the political regimes in which they lived, and against which they had struggled.

English Title: Snapshots
Director: Peter Krištúfek
Country: SK Year: 2008 Lenght: 90'

Chronologically arranged documentary Snapshots portrays the life of the legendary Czechoslovakian rock musician Dežo Ursiny as well as depicts the times he had lived in. Ursiny's relatives, friends and colleagues from music bands (i.e. Ivan Štrpka, Andrej Šeban, Radek Pastrňák, Zdenka Krejčová…) talk about him, his life and his work.

English Title: AUTO*MATE
Director: Martin Mareček
Country: CZ Year: 2009 Lenght: 90'

A playful essay about automobile-automatic society.

English Title: In Comparison
Director: Harun Farocki
Country: AT Year: 2009 Lenght: 62'

Bricks are the resonating fundamentals of society. Bricks are layers of clay that sound, like records just simply too thick. They appear in series, but every brick is slightly different – not just another brick in the wall. They resonate in a way that tells us if they are good enough or not. Bricks form the fundamental sound of our societies, but we haven´t learned to listen to them. Farocki´s film has our eyes and ears consider them in comparison – and not in competition, not as clash of cultures. Farocki shows us various brick production sites in their colours, movements and sounds.

English Title: Defamation
Director: Yoav Shamir
Country: AT, DK, IL, US Year: 2009 Lenght: 93'

What is anti-semitism two generations after the Holocaust? In his exploration of modern Israeli life, director Yoav Shamir comes up with some startling answers.

English Title: Apocalypse on Wheels
Director: Alexandru Solomon
Country: RO Year: 2008 Lenght: 52'

This is a film about what the car traffic turns us into.

English Title: King Hugo and his Damsel
Director: Franco De Pena, Francisco Arteaga Paez
Country: PL, VE Year: 2009 Lenght: 47'

August 2007, Venezuelan's President Chavez convokes a referendum in order to change the constitution and get absolute power. The student movement opposes the reform and is brutally repressed by the Police. Hugo Rey is a connection with the totalitarian mechanism employed by Chavez to perpetuate his power. After the film was shown in Venezuelan Cable Tv, all the independent Directors are a Military target of the Chavez's Militia Group "La Piedrita."

English Title: Cuba Is Music
Director: Ilian Djevelekov
Country: BG Year: 2009 Lenght: 45'

In Cuba everything is expressed by music – the declaration of love and the rich harvest, the birth of a child and the loss of a donkey, the longing and the melancholy.

English Title: The Sidetrack
Director: Anna Kazejak
Country: PL Year: 2009 Lenght: 45'

"The Sidetrack" is a film about people united by a specific and a bit forgotten form of spending free time – train holidays.

English Title: New Kaisertal city
Director: Melanie Hollaus
Country: AT Year: 2008 Lenght: 34'

"New Kaisertal City" should be seen as a political comment on the situation of immigrants in Tyrol.

English Title: Faithful
Director: Nastia Tarasova
Country: RU Year: 2008 Lenght: 28'

Sometimes rules and traditions of the ancestors stand in the way of one's private life, but one puts up with that, always remaining loyal and faithful...

English Title: Songs From the Tundra
Director: Alexander Berman
Country: RU Year: 2009 Lenght: 24'

"Songs from the Tundra" is a lyric journey through the awkward modernity of the Even people of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia's most remote frontier. The film unfolds in a series of native Even songs belonging to a forgotten generation. As they sing of hunters and herders, the Evens attempt to recreate their mythic past in a reindeer camp at the foot of the Alney volcano. But hearth alone cannot be home. The Evens must leave their reindeer on a truly fearsome beast.

English Title: Arsy-Versy
Director: Miro Remo
Country: SK Year: 2009 Lenght: 23'

Film about mom and her son Lubos, who conquered the world upside down.

English Title: Jolly Old Farts
Director: Manfred Vainokivi
Country: EE Year: 2008 Lenght: 28'

Portrait of two old-school cinema guys, whose joy of life is fuelled by constant rivalry and copious amounts of alcohol.

English Title: The Lucky Ones
Director: Tomasz Wolski
Country: PL Year: 2009 Lenght: 27'

The field of observation is limited to the seat of the Registry Office within its opening hours, or more specifically to its three rooms. One of them is used to register births, the second one – deaths and the third one – weddings. The observation of the clients' and clerks' behavior in each room unveils a picture of our everyday life as well as fate.

English Title: Till it hurts
Director: Marcin Koszalka
Country: PL Year: 2008 Lenght: 25'

The story of a lonely, 53-year-old psychiatrist living with his severely overprotective mother. When a woman steps into the picture, a bad conflict breaks out. After years of sexual abstinence, Ewa brings out the man in him. His mother yells, "Wake up, you're fifty- three!". He answers in St. Paul's words, "Children obey your parents, honour thy father and thy mother and ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath."

English Title: Six Weeks
Director: Marcin Janos Krawczyk
Country: PL Year: 2009 Lenght: 18'

Due to different life situations there are mothers who do not want or those who cannot bring up their children. They have the right to give the child away just after delivery. During the first six weeks of the newborn's life the mother has to make the decision about the definit resignation of her parental rights.

English Title: Chasm
Director: Wojciech Kasperski
Country: PL Year: 2009 Lenght: 34'

An intimate portrait of gold fever. The gold-bearing mountains of Northen Siberia are the background for the Jack London style story: A Lonely Gold Seeker is looking for his Treasure.He is surrounded by unfriendly nature and by people he can't trust. Being chased by his own fears, he breaks up with the whole world and shuts himself in the trap of his great desire.

English Title: Dreamers
Director: Nermin Hamzagic
Country: BA Year: 2009 Lenght: 30'

"Dreamers" is a film about two young hip hopers Samir Karic and Amir Muminovic from a small village Hajvazi in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Because of the lyrics in one of their songs where they criticize the local Mayor, they have been attacked by Mayor's son. East West Centre and director Haris Pasovic invited them to play in his show Class Enemy after reading an article in some local newspaper about this incident. The show Class Enemy is about a disempowered group of students in one of the local high schools raging with violence. Samir and Amir go for a World Tour with the play.

English Title: I love my boring life
Director: Jan Gogola jr.
Country: CZ Year: 2009 Lenght: 26'

A diary of a grandmother from the Prague neighborhood of Zbraslav as a diary of eternity. Using informal language, for five years grandmother Alena Němcová from Zbraslav has been writing down weather forecasts, dreams, morning exercise, recipes, regular house bustle, global events as well as notes concerning relationships, religion and the general spirit of the age.