BALKAN FILM BAZAAR in Graz is an educational short film festival and screenings aiming to introduce young Balkan cinema to wide Austrian audiences. BALKAN FILM BAZAAR 2012 will present 23 short films of all styles from different Balkan countries. All films will be screened in original languages with English subtitles. Entrance to all screenings at Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino is free.

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PROGRAM
BALKAN FILM BAZAAR_01
16_00 >>> 18_00
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ICE FLOWERS_susan gordamshekan_30min_GERMANY_2011_fiction
Amir does not have a residence permit. His mother denies any contact to him and he is fighting against his own repressed agressions. A secret burden lies on the shoulders of this young Bosnian...

EXTRA VIRGIN_uygar demoğlu_7min_TURKEY_2011_experiment/doc
Naked adolescent bodies lying on the ground, jugs of extra virgin olive oil are the heralds of a 600 year old culture, language and fight.

MARIONETTE_minos nikolakakis_10min_GREECE_2007_animation
Once upon a time and place, there was a toy – maker, living alone, in a cabin up on a mountain. He created a wooden puppet, as an opponent for his games of chess. But can a puppet become a worthy opponent? Unless...

TIMI_cristi iftime_12min_ROMANIA_2009_fiction
Timi - a ten years old boy with a behavioral disorder is on the seaside for the very first time...

THE HAPPY LIFE_minos nikolakakis_8min_GREECE_2009_fiction/animation
A cartoon artist. His wife. His characters. Happy life.

MEMORIES OF HONEST LJUBOMIR KUVELJIC_bojan cvetkovic_26min_SERBIA_2011_doc
Who is Ljubomir Kuveljic? Photographer? Sports forecast player? Guiness record holder? Or chess player? Who is Ljubo?

BALKAN FILM BAZAAR_02
18_00 >>> 20_00
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GREGOR_petra zlonoga_3min_CROATIA_2011_animation_english dialogue
Gregor thinks a lot. Maybe even too much…

TIDE_alen zanjko_6min_CROATIA_2011_animation
When the moon is full and the tide is high, strange things begin to happen.

PSYCHOMORPH_branko farac_7min_CROATIA_2011_animation
Film about identity loss in the totalitarian world of computer technology.

THE SOUL ORNAMENT_irena jukic pranjic_10min_CROATIA_2011_animation
The film visualises a saying that´s often used in figurative speech, when people reffer to an event, landscape or custom as embeded in them.

LURE_dinko kumanovic_4min_CROATIA_2011_animation
The sea, a man, fish...a couple of wonders and human weaknesses.

ESCARGOT_manuel sumberac_9min_CROATIA_2011_animation_
Two armies of snails in a fight for the same purpose – the last bud on the stem. But the bud belongs to another world...

THE ROOM_ivana juric_5min_CROATIA_2011_animation
A hotel room. A woman doll is waiting for the call from her lover doll. His arrival and their sexual intercourse are like a ritual for her, which takes her into a floating, pleasing state of mind. She opens herself to the man through sex, while the man doll considers it all as relieving himself, after which he just vanishes into thin air. The doll remains alone in the empty room, disappointed and hurt.

ADIEU, N_barbara vekaric_15min_CROATIA_2011_fiction
Maja is a self destructive girl, living in the memories of her past relationship with boyfriend Nikola. To finally say goodbye to Nikola, Maja decides to destroy all their memories by making them less special, by repeating them. So, Adieu, N.

TWO_mickey nedimovic_25min_GERMANY_2012_fiction
Croatia, 1992. Two marksmen – Robert, a Croat, and Stojan, a Serb – wander aimlessly through desolate countryside when their paths unexpectedly cross...

BREATH_ban attila_8min_ROMANIA_2011_fiction
A lakeside love triangle with a twist.

MEZZANINE_dalibor matanic_14min_CROATIA_2011_fiction
Story set in an alienated city ruled by merciless principles of corporate society, in which a young woman consents to be reduced to mere human flesh, as it is the only way into the game of survival. Her mother encourages the daughter to embark into this merciless world, becoming aware that her own child is irreversibly damaged. The two of them play a silent game with its main goal - solving the existence problems - achieved, yet they are aware that the aftermath is more than present.

BALKAN FILM BAZAAR_03
20_00 >>> 22_00
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THE COUNTING DEVICE_daniel sandu_20min_ROMANIA_2011_fiction
Mirce, an old employee at the National Company of Motorways and National Roads wants to get George – his nephew – hired at the same company. Because of their different opinions about their work their friendship eventually turns into a conflict.

SILENT RIVER_anca miruna lazarescu_30min_ROMANIA_2011_fiction
Romania, 1986: Gregor and Vali want to get away. Both need each other, yet there is mutual distrust. One night Gregor finds his doubts confirmed. In the end only hope is left.

TIME OF THE PLUMS_sezen kayhan_10min_TURKEY_2011_fiction
What a deaf girl living in a coastal town experiences between fantasy and reality during the time of the plums.

A DAY ON THE DRINA_ines tanovic_17min_Bosnia&Herzegovina_2011_documentary
A long summer day on the river Drina…This may sound like a serene picnic… And it would be, hadn’t the river retreated to its riverbed…Summer looks so carefree in a hot Sarajevo.

MY TIRED FATHER_maya vitkova_14min_BULGARIA_2011_fiction
8 year-old Daria thinks she hears a mouse in the middle of the night. But when she wakes up her father for help, bigger family problems come to light.

TIME OF INTIMACY_milos milosevic_8min_SERBIA_2011_fiction
The story of first and last sexual experience.


BALKAN FILM BAZAAR in Graz is an educational short film festival and screenings aiming to introduce young Balkan cinema to wide Austrian audiences. BALKAN FILM BAZAAR 2012 will present 23 short films of all styles from different Balkan countries. All films will be screened in original languages with English subtitles. Entrance to all screenings at Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino is free.