73 73 Dear documentary friends, We have been watering this documentary initiative for three years already and roots are obviously getting stronger and stronger. This year, we are ready to present you 37 feature and short documentaries, finished in the last few months, 15 additional almost finished feature docs, waiting to see the world through your selector’s eyes and 17 documentaries in development, trying to find co-production partners. All together, almost 70 films from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Kosovo, from countries that are actively promoting their documentary production, gaining success at the festivals and receiving recognition for their work. I want to thank to the film centres, film agencies and our partners for making SEED up- and-running and more than anything to the tireless documentary filmmakers who are developing great ideas to the final art piece, ready for screening around the world. Please, search through the catalogue, keep an eye on our documentaries in the video library, watch them at the cinemas and I hope you will recognize the flourishing exiting documentary signature from Southeast Europe. Oliver Sertić SEED co-ordinator October 2015 73 CONTENTS FINISHED FILMS FILMS IN DEVELOPMENT 4 - A DAY TO BE HAPPY, Macedonia 43 - BEYOND THE END OF THE WORLD, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, USA 5 - BITTER REGRET, Macedonia 44 - HOW DO YOU DEFINE AROGANCE?!, Macedonia 6 - CHILDREN OF THE SILENT REVOLUTION, USA, Bulgaria 45 - i_ISLAND, Slovenia, Croatia 7 - ČAP - MOMENT OF DECISION, Slovenia, Czech Republic 46 - IN SEARCH OF A LOST COUNTRY, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia 8 - HOME, Slovenia 47 - LORDS OF THE LAND, Bulgaria 9 - I LIKE THAT SUPER MOST THE BEST ABOUT YOU, Croatia 48 - MATCHMAKING, Kosovo 10 - LIFE IS AN ETERNAL SWING, Bulgaria, Belgium 49 - MEET ENVER HADRI, Belgium, Kosovo 11 - LILA, Croatia 50 - SISTERS, Bosnia & Herzegovina 12 - LITTLE HOUSES, Slovenia 51 - SLATAN DUDOW: HOW DIRECTORS LIVE, WORKERS IN THE WORLD OF 13 - LOST BUTTON, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Austria, Serbia EMPTY STOMACHS, Bulgaria 14 - MANAKI – A STORY THROUGH PICTURES, Macedonia 52 - SRBENKA, Croatia 15 - ONCE UPON A DREAM - A JOURNEY TO THE LAST SPAGHETTI WESTERN, 53 - STORKS, Croatia, Slovenia Germany, Finland, Bulgaria 54 - STORYTALLERS TALE, Kosovo 16 - ONE DAY IN SARAJEVO, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Austria, Croatia 55 - THE AVENGE, Slovenia, Kosovo 17 - RUSSIAN, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia 56 - THE LOVE ROOM, Macedonia 18 - SCHOOL TIME FOR MISS ROMA, Croatia 57 - THE MAN WITH TWO FACES, Macedonia 19 - SICK, Croatia 58 - THE ONLY THING LEFT TO DO IS TO CUT OFF MY EAR, 20 - SOUL TRAIN, Bosnia & Herzegovina Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro 21 - THE CHILDREN OF MY FATHER, Macedonia 59 - THE PRISON BEAUTY CONTEST, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 22 - THE LAST MACEDONIAN - ROAD TO EXTINCTION, Macedonia Serbia, France, Croatia 23 - THE SPIRITS DIARY, Croatia 24 - TRAPPED BY LAW, Kosovo, Germany SHORT DOCUMENTARIES – FINISHED 25 - VANJA LAZAROVA (BORN IN PAIN), Macedonia 60 - 2000 KILOMETERS, Bosnia & Herzegovina 60 - ANA SQUARE, Croatia FILMS IN POST-PRODUCTION 60 - EYES OF GLASS, Croatia 27 - “8” - MACEDONIAN CHALGIA TRADITION, Macedonia 61 – IMMIGRANT JOURNAL, Kosovo, Albania 28 - BLUE VELVET REVISITED, Germany, Slovenia 61 - IMPERATIVE, Bosnia & Herzegovina 29 - DAYS OF MADNESS, Croatia, Slovenia 61 - I SMOKE WHATEVER’S LEFT, Croatia 30 - DIONIS’ MUSEUM, Macedonia 62 – KANG E DEFA: FEMALE RHAPSODY IN KOSOVA, Germany, Kosovo 31 - FAMILY, Slovenia 62 - LIONHEART, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia 32 - FROM CREMONA TO CREMONA, Bulgaria, Italy 62 - MUCI THE FIREMAN, Macedonia 33 - MY WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN, Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia 63 - OPERA, Macedonia 34 - PARALLEL SOLDIERS, Kosovo 63 - RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY, Croatia 35 - PEOPLE OF BAUSHTELLE, Kosovo 63 - SELF REFLECTION, Bosnia & Herzegovina 36 - RELEASED, Croatia 64 - SHINING DARKNESS, Macedonia 37 - SAILOR STORIES, Bulgaria 64 - THE LADINO LADIES’ CLUB, Bulgaria, USA 38 - TETOVO STORY, Macedonia 64 - VERUDA - A FILM ABOUT BOJAN, Croatia 39 - THE LAST BATTLE OF 20TH CENTURY, Kosovo, Albania, UK 40 - THE SUMMER HELP, USA, Bulgaria 65 - country index 414 - WOMEN FROM GJAKOVA, Kosovo 66 - festivals FINISHED FILMS 5 FINISHED FILMS original title: ДЕНОТ ДА Е РАДОСЕН finished:November 2014 length: 65’ shooting format: HD DIRECTOR: Ljubica Popovska DOP: Igor Angelovski EDITOR: Tode Kocev SOUND DESIGN: Darko Spasovski - Packi PRODUCERS: Vladimir Stojčevski, Goran Stojilkoviќ PRODUCTION: AWARD FILM & VIDEO, Macedonia A DAY TO BE HAPPY MUSIC DOCUMENTRAY ABOUT K.U.R. Ljubica Popovska, Macedonia (KULTURNO UMETNIČKI RABOTNICI) www.award-film.com producer’s contact: The question whether punk is dead is constantly thrown around, as well as what punk is and if this AWARD FILM & VIDEO or that is punk enough. ‘A Day to Be Happy’ is a movie in the shape of a testimony about the constant Kosta Novaković 1a/32, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia fight of a few musical individuals not to be put in the bin where music has some purpose, some genre, gsm: +389.78.318083, +389.70.346905 some goal, or some fee. The film uses the band Kulturno Umetnicki Rabotnici as the main protago- [email protected], [email protected], nist to show an intimate conversation with some of the most important figures of the Macedonian [email protected] alternative scene. What is the meaning of the word in-law? How is Thursday more important than www.award-film.com the other days in a week? Who is in charge of making ‘turshija’ and who is in charge of ‘rakija’ during CONTACT PERSON: Vladimir Stojčevski, Goran Stojilkoviќ their 15 years of making music? One is for sure: it is easy to get in KUR, but getting out is trickier. So, A Day to Be Happy! selected festivals: director’s selected filmography: CINEDAYS, Skopje, Macedonia / DORF, Vinkovci, Osijek, LIFE N.2, short documentary, 2010 Croatia / SKOPJE CINEMA CITY, Skopje, Macedonia / ME AND YOU, short fiction, 2008 MANAKI BROTHERS, Bitola, Macedonia 6 FINISHED FILMS original title: Caimo finished:September 2015 length: 72’ shooting format: full HD DIRECTOR: Aleksandar Zivkov SCRIPT: Lydia Papadimitriou DOP: Ivan Zoroski, Sotir Ivanovski EDITORS: Kirsten Kieninger, Aleksandar Zikov SOUND DESIGN: Darko Spasovski-Packi PRODUCER: Aleksandar Zivkov CO-PRODUCERS: Ilija Cvetkovski, Mite Petrov, Sterija Zikov PRODUCTION: ARKA MEDIA, Macedonia CO-PRODUCTION: IMPAKT MEDIJA, Macedonia, BITTER REGRET QUASAR FILM, Macedonia Aleksandar Zikov, Macedonia AROMANIANS, TRADITION, OBSERVATION, www.facebook.com/caimothemovie DRUGS, POVERTY Traditionally nomadic shepherds, Aromanians, or Vlachs, are an ethnic group with a Latin-based producer’s contact: language that can be found in different parts of south-eastern Europe. Caimo, meaning „bitter ARKA MEDIA regret“, follows one of the few remaining Aromanian families in a village in the Balkans. Using an Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia observational and poetic style, it depicts the everyday routine, the dysfunctions, the poverty, the gsm: +389.78.309988 [email protected] music and the ambivalent attachment to the past of a ruptured family that struggles to maintain its www.facebook.com/caimothemovie identity in a world that has no use of its traditional values. CONTACT PERSON: Aleksandar Zikov selected festivals: director’s debut MANAKI BROTHERS, Bitola, Macedonia 7 FINISHED FILMS original title: ДЕЦА НА ТИХАТА РЕВОЛЮЦИЯ finished:September 2015 length: 84’ shooting format: DV, HD DIRECTOR: Viktoria Ershova DOP: Viktoria Ershova EDITORS: Petar Marinov, Viktoria Ershova PRODUCER: Viktoria Ershova CO-PRODUCER: Krastyo Lambev PRODUCTION: VIKTORI PICTURES, USA CHILDREN OF THE SILENT CO-PRODUCTION: CONCEPT STUDIO, Bulgaria REVOLUTION BULGARIA, TRANSITION, CLASSMATES, Viktoria Ershova, USA, Bulgaria DREAMS, HAPPINESS www.viktoripicures.com producer’s contact: Bulgaria, 1995. A group of classmates are graduating from high school. They believe in their dreams Viktori Pictures like only 18-year-olds who have witnessed the fall of communism and known the value of freedom 1818 Corinth Ave., #1, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA do. Svetlana dreams of becoming a doctor, Nikolina wants to be a business woman, Angel claims he ph: +1.323.360.5001 would be a president. But their country is still in turmoil, which will continue for the next 20 years. [email protected] What will happen to the friends? ‘Children of the Silent Revolution’ is a unique journey into the lives of www.viktoripicures.com these classmates, following their paths over two decades – from their graduation to the present days. CONTACT PERSON: Viktoria Ershova director’s selected filmography: MOVIN’ ON, short fiction, 2008 IN BETWEEN, short fiction, 2006 LIVING IN LIMBO, short documentary, 2006 A SUNDAY IN VENICE BEACH, short documentary, 2005 HOPE FOR TOMORROW, short fiction, 2005 8 FINISHED FILMS original title: ČAP – TRENUTKI ODLOČITEV finished:November 2015 length: 75’ / 56’ shooting format: HD DIRECTOR: Urban Arsenjuk DOP: Jernej Vavpetič EDITOR: Črt Brajnik SOUND DESIGN: Pavel Kovařík COMPOSER: Gašper Piano PRODUCER: Danijel Hočevar CO-PRODUCER: Pavel Berčik PRODUCTION: VERTIGO, Slovenia CO-PRODUCTION: EVOLUTION FILMS, Czech Republic, CZECH TV, Czech Republic, RTV ČAP – MOMENTS OF DECISIONS SLOVENIA, Slovenia Urban Arsenjuk, Slovenia, Czech Republic FORCED IMMIGRATION, DILEMMA, YUGOSLAVIA, www.vertigo.si NIHILISM, LAST ONE ADVICE ‘Čap – Moments of Decision’ is a documentary portrait of a successful film director, but also a very