The film is a story about three days in the life of an ordinary woman, living and working in today’s Moscow, her adult son and her small grandson. Both – father and grandmother – meet the boy for the first time five years after his birth.
LEMESOS
Thursday 14.04 @ 22:00
NICOSIA
Saturday 16.04 @ 22:00
The film is a story about three days in the life of an ordinary woman, living and working in today’s Moscow, her adult son and her small grandson. Both – father and grandmother – meet the boy for the first time five years after his birth.
LEMESOS
Saturday 16.04 @ 22:00
NICOSIA
Tuesday 12.04 @ 20:00
The easy, playful romance enjoyed by Paul and Raluca seems idyllic, but it faces one major obstacle: Paul is married. A chance encounter between Paul’s wife and Raluca ignites suspicions and recriminations, and the incendiary secret is inexorably drawn into the spotlight. Unfolding in exquisitely observed detail, Tuesday, After Christmas continues the tradition of taut, subtle drama that has become the hallmark of contemporary Romanian cinema.
Awards
Award for Best Actress ex aequo to Mirela Oprisor and Maria Popistasu – Mar del Plata Film Festival, Argentina, 2011
Nominated for Best Film Award – Mar del Plata Film Festival, Argentina, 2011
Nominated for Prix Un Certain Regard – Cannes Film Festival, 2010
97’ / 2010
Bulgaria
LEMESOS
Monday 11.04 @ 20:00
NICOSIA
Saturday 09.04 @ 22:00
In the early 90’s, four friends are trying to make money with the dream of opening their own bar, called Tilt. A chance meeting between Stash and Becky leads to a passionate love affair. Suddenly, the friends are caught illegally distributing porn films. Becky’s father, a police detective, takes charge of the case and threatens them with prison. The only way to avoid it would be for Stash and Becky to stop seeing each other. The gang decides to run away to a small German village where they find themselves involved in a series of funny and absurd situations.
Awards
Special Jury Award, Best Actor Award (ex aequo) to Yavor Baharov and Best Supporting Role to Ovares Torosyan – Golden Rose Film Festival, Bulgaria 2010
88’ / 2010
Bulgaria
LEMESOS
Friday 15.04 @ 20:00
NICOSIA
Wednesday 13.04 @ 22:00
While they have been busy switching TV channels, making pickles or discussing politics, the parents of 12-yearold Rado have failed to notice that their son has grown up. They cannot understand why, after disappearing for two days, he isn’t sorry for the anguish he has caused them and why he’s ready to run away from home with the first group of junkies he meets on the street.
Awards
Grand Prix for Best Film, Kodak Award for Best Bulgarian Feature Film and Audience Award – Sofia Int’l Film Festival, 2011
98’ / 2010
Italy, France
LEMESOS
Wednesday 13.04 @ 20:00
NICOSIA
Sunday 10.04 @ 22:00
Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. Enraged with life, Claudio seeks to numb his pain by working hard on a risky construction project that threatens to endanger his family’s future.
Awards
Best Actor Award (ex aequo with Javier Bardem) to Elio Germano – Cannes Film Festival, 2010
Nominated for European Actor Award for Elio Germano – European Film Awards, 2010
107’ / 2010
Croatia
LEMESOS
Saturday 16.04 @ 20:00
NICOSIA
Thurday 14.04 @ 22:00
Mother of Asphalt is a story about the disintegration and restoration of a young family in Zagreb. Their lives entwine with the life of a lonely individual who is a by-product of the modern society: a young man who desperately craves human contact…
Awards
Best Script Award at Balkan Film Fund – Thessaloniki Film Festival, 2009
Award for Best Actress to Marija Skaricic – Pula Film Festival, Croatia, 2010
FIPA D’OR Grand Prize, Grand Prize for Best Actress to Marija Skaricic and Grand Prize for Best Original Soundtrack – FIPA International Festival of Audiovisual Programs, France, 2011
108’ / 2009
Greece
LEMESOS
Tuesday 12.04 @ 22:00
NICOSIA
Friday 08.04 @ 20:00
Nick is spending his days lazily in a provincial town, with no present or future. After his father’s death, his uncle, Alekos, prompts him to leave his town and come to Athens with him. Alekos offers him food, accommodation and an easy job.Nick accepts only to be suddenly involved in a strange, in-house job. Isolated in a “grey” Athenian suburb, alone with his uncle and aunt, the balance between them starts to shift…
107’ / 2010
Austria
LEMESOS
Sunday 10.04 @ 22:00
NICOSIA
Thursday 14.04 @ 20:00
Inside America gives a blunt view into America’s soul, found somewhere between plasma TVs and food stamps. The film is a portrait of six High School kids in a small border town in Texas. Cocaine-addicted cheerleaders, patriotic ROTC-students, gang members and Mexican girls in search of a husband, collide in this story. And yet, they have a lot in common. Together they swear on the American flag, dream of white picket fences and fancy cars, but when each school day ends, reality strikes them like an incurable disease.
90’ / 2009
Romania
LEMESOS
Saturday 09.04 @ 20:00
NICOSIA
Monday 11.04 @ 22:00
Avram notices that the Italians pay good money for trained dogs, and this business makes him a legitimate immigrant. This is his big idea. When he comes back to Romania he starts to breed watch dogs in order to export them to Italy. But his new neighbours are Romanians expelled from Rome. And so the Italian conflict moves to the shores of the Danube. His life becomes more complicated when he involves himself in a romance with his daughter in law…