Jury Programme
Igor Kovalyov Retrospective
Andrej Svislotski
The spirit of film noir creeps through this tale, laying bare the deceitful relationship between a master and his servants.
Ptič na oknu / Bird in the Window
Past and present merge and then re-fracture down different fault lines when a man visits a woman living in a house with a gardener, two kissing Chinese chess players and a child who will do anything to communicate with the man.
Leteči Nansen / Flying Nansen
Explorer Nansen travels to the North Pole, where danger, adventure and a woman await him.
Kokoš, njegova žena / Hen, His Wife
Extraordinarily detailed and beautifully drawn animation of a bizarre and surreal world; the domestic life of a fat man, his wife, a sort of oversized obese chicken, and their child/pet, a slug-like creature with a human head. This expressionistic and interior vision of Soviet animator Kovalyov is like an animated Eraserhead.
Milch
A boy discovers love and comes face to face with the mortality of his family. The film speaks of this through a web of oblique details, attempting to capture the flesh of relation and, perhaps, the very tension of being.
Before Love
Human shortcomings tie the dramatic knot of this story. Everything happening to the characters is not yet true love. Everybody finds their own way to be unhappy. Everybody is looking for love.