2010
Thursday, April 29th
THE WALL
(USA, documentary vignette; 1989. 1 minutes.)
Director : Arnold Schwartzman
Producer : Richard Gardner
Courtesy of legendary designer and Oscar-winning documentary director Arnold Schwartzman, we pay a witty little tribute to the people chipping away at the Berlin Wall.
Thursday, April 29th
Good Bye, How Are You?
(Serbia, Documentary; 2009. 61 minutes.)
Director : Boris Mitic
Producer : Boris Mitic
This unique documentary draws on dark-humored aphorisms from the last 40 years of Serbian history for its narrative voiceover: a nation’s oral tradition of sardonic response to conflict and corruption. The beautifully selected and wittily juxtaposed images, meanwhile, form an insightful, compelling portrait of daily existence in all its...
Thursday, April 29th
Alive
(Albania, Feature; 2009. 90 minutes.)
Director : Artan Minarolli
Producer : Vincent Lucassen, Artan Minarolli, Ebba Sinzinger, Marie Balducchi
From the director of the elegiac “Moonless Night” (SEE Fest 2008) comes a powerful story about a blood feud that entangles a young student in a web of complicated relationships stemming from an antiquated tribal code. When Koli returns home to his rural village in the mountains of Albania to attend his father’s funeral, he discovers that, by...
Friday, April 30th
THE BLACKS
U.S. Premiere
(Croatia, Feature; 2009. 78 minutes.)
Director : Zvonimir Juric and Goran Devic
Producer : Ankica Juric Tilic
War. A city under siege. A truce has been signed, and the special ops squad known as “The Blacks” is about to be disbanded. Despite the cease-fire, the squad commander plans a maneuver to destroy an enemy dam while retrieving the dead bodies of his soldiers from a mine-strewn forest. As the surviving members of the squad move into action...
