Saturday, May 5th
5:00 PM
DO NOT FORGET ME ISTANBUL (Unutma Beni Istanbul)
(Turkey; feature; 2011. 118 minutes.)
Director : Aida Begic, Eric Nazarian, Hany Abu-Assad, Josefina Markarian, Omar Shargawi, Stefan Arsenijevic, Stergios Niziris
Producer : Huseyin Karabey, Sevil Demirci
Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t'aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of...
Saturday, May 5th
7:00 PM
FAITH, LOVE AND WHISKEY (Vjara, lubov i whisky)
(Bulgaria; feature; 2011. 75 minutes.)
Director : Kristina Nikolova
Producer : Georgi Nikolov
A young woman leaves her dream life in America to return home to Bulgaria to see her passionate and self-destructive ex-boyfriend. But when her American fiancé makes a surprise visit, she has to choose between a secure future and a doomed love. Faith, Love and Whiskey looks at the lost summer of an...
Sunday, May 6th
1:00 PM
EMPTY BOXCARS
(USA; documentary; 2011. 54 minutes.)
Director : Ed Gaffney
Producer : Ed Gaffney
American director Ed Gaffney explores the history of Nazi Germany's “Final Solution” in South Eastern Europe and the Balkans, an area that has notoriously struggled with the terrible inheritance of regional ethnic chauvinism exploited for the sake of nationalism. Empty Boxcars...
Sunday, May 6th
2:00 PM
SHORTS PROGRAM | A DAY ON THE RIVER DRINA (Jedan dan na Drini)
(Bosnia-Herzegovina; documentary; 2011. 17 minutes.)
Director : Ines Tanović
Producer : Alem Babić
August 2010: a peaceful summer day on the river Drina. But if you read carefully, a most unusual request in the newspapers: a call for volunteers to recover human remains in the artificial lake of Perućac. And so a gruesome story unravels about the discovery of more than 250 skeletons in the...
