Main competition
| Main competition |
| 52 Procent / 52 Percent |
| Rafal Skalski / Poland / 2007 / 19min |
| 52 percent is the ideal proportion of one's leg length to height and one of the most important admission criteria set by the Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg. Alla has two months to reach this dream proportions. Will she be admitted to the school? The film was made under „Russia and Poland. New Gaze” project, 2nd edition. The project was [read more] |
| Artel /Артель |
| Sergey Loznitsa / Russia / 2006 / 32min |
| The movie about one day in the life of a small fishing cooperative on the White Sea. Simplicity, effort, time and work are present in their routine. White snow, horizon line, white sky, figure of the worker, who is fighting with the ice. For him this is the only way to survive. The film looks like meditation inspired by nature [read more] |
| Besame Mucho / Целуй меня крепче |
| Alina Rudnitskaya / Russia / 2006 / 28min |
| “Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.” (Grace Hansen) Amateur women’s choir of provincial Russian town Tikhvin rehearses opera “Aida”. In the daytime these women - heroes of the film - have ordinary life, work in the shops, remove the garbage, load goods on trucks, overcome the illnesses, but in the evenings they [read more] |
 | Festival / Фестиваль |
| Alyona Polunina / Russia, 2007, 52min | |
| Students of theater schools from the province coma to Moscow to the progressive art festival. The film shows the story of clash between the capital town and the province, young talents and “stars”, an old “school” and a new “school”…Alyona Polunina: Graduated 2004 from the Higher Courses of Script writers and directors, course of A. Gerasimov.Awards at festivals: Kin International [read more] |
 | Fighting the Silence / Борючись із ти?ею |
| Ilse van Velzen, Femke van Velzen / Netherlands / 2007 / 53min | |
| During the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s seven year war, more then 80.000 women and girls were raped. “Fighting the Silence” tells the story of ordinary women and men struggling to change their society: one that prefers to blame victims rather than prosecute rapists. Survivors tell of the brutality they experienced. Husbands talk of the pressures that led them to [read more] |
| Gesher Al Havadi / Bridge over the Wadi |
| Tomer Heymann, Barak Heymann / Israel / 2006 / 55min |
| In 2004, a group of Arab and Jewish parents decided to establish a dual-nation and dual-language school for their children. Though noble and idealistic, it turned out to be extremely difficult to implement and evoked stormy discussion and debate. Even the founding parents had to deal with their vast doubts - some even backed out of the project. With keen [read more] |
 | Happy Nastunya / Щаслива Настуня |
| Myhailo Tkachuk / Ukraine, 2007, 33min | |
| The main character in the film is an ordinary woman, raised in traditions of love to God, love to people and love to Ukraine. The parents died once she was a child. In the age of 16 she entered UPA (Ukrainian Insurrectional Army): training, oath, assassination of her husband on the eyes of pregnant Nastunya. In 1945 she was arrested, [read more] |
| Kamienna Cisza/ Stone Silence |
| Krzysztof Kopczynski / Poland / 2007 / 51min |
| A 29-year old woman suspected of adultery was killed in Spingul village in the high mountains of northern Afghanistan. Information, which spread all over the world on April 23rd, 2005, has become the incipience of this story. The documentary presents the history of two lovers in the eyes of witnesses, reconstructing the tragic occurrence. The author of the film tries [read more] |
 | Min Datter Terroristen / My Daughter the Terrorist |
| Beate Arnestad / Norway / 2007 / 60min | |
| What makes anyone want to blow themselves up for a cause? In this intimate and personal portrait we join two young female elite soldiers trained for the ultimate mission. We share their childhood experiences, their dreams and their families' loss. Left behind are the mothers.Dharsika and Puhalchudar belong to the last batch of the Black Tigers. The peace talks are [read more] |
| Pavlov’s Dogs / Собаки Павлова |
| Arto Halonen / Finland / 2005 / 70min |
| These days, even poverty can be bought. A Russian psychologist, Sergei Knyatzev, provides the experience of being a beggar to wealthy people who have tried everything and are looking for something new. But this is only one of the games that this psychologist has developed. He specializes in role-playing and mental manipulation, starting with animals and small groups of people, [read more] |
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