FILM TEXT PROGRAM – FIFFP 2023 PROGRAM
Wedensday, 26.7.2022.
21.00 PERAŠKI TRG – MAIN SELECTION
OPENING CEREMONY with the Festival guests
Andra Akten/Second Act
Swedish, 2023, drama romance, 114’, with English subtitles
director Mårten Klingberg
Follows Eva, as she feels felt with time on her hands, but develops a friendship with the great actor Harald Skoog realizing that life is not yet over, in fact, it may have even just begun.
Actors: Lena Olin, Ralf Lassgård
Production: Film i VästNordisk Film Production Sverige AB
Duga Resa/Fringe Infringe, 2021, documentary, Serbia, 65’, Serbian, Croatian, Serbo-Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Slovakian, Žminj dialect (Istria) with English subtitles
Director: Škart collective
Housewife Mica S. from the suburbs, comes up with an invention that will change her life and the lives of many whom her doorknob-covers reach.
Thursday, 27.7.2022.
21.00 PERAŠKI TRG – MAIN SELECTION
Bullets / BULLETS
Sweden, 2023, drama triller, 95’, with English subtitles
Director Peter Pontikis
It tells the story of a boy from a socially deprived suburb who is forced to help his friend out of trouble with the local ‘gang’. This risks changing the course of his life and sending him to a path that he did not choose himself.
Actors: Tomas Samir, Khalaf Ayoub
Production: Thin Skin Films
Heroji/Heroes
Serbia, 2022, drama, 71’, with English subtitles
Director Goran Nikolic
A story set in the Middle Ages about a warrior knight who survived the historic Battle of Kosovo in 1389. Along the way, he meets a wild boy, all alone. And they continue this journey together. This man is a personification of all small heroes, that no songs are sang about.
Actors: Mladen Sovilj, Todor Jovanovic
Production: Faculty for Dramatic Arts Belgrade, Fame Solutions, Talking Wolf Productions
Friday, 28.7.2022.
21.00 PERAŠKI TRG – MAIN SELECTION
Sokea mies joka ei halunnut nähdä Titanicia / The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanik”,
Finland, 2021, comedy-drama, 82’, with English subtitles
Director: Teemu Nikki
Jaakko and Sirpa have never met face to face but used to talk on the phone every day. When he heard about her declining health, he decides to go meet her in another city ,and when he saw he was blind and paralyzed from the chest down.
Actors: Petri Poikolainen, Majaana Maijala
Production: It’s Alive Films, Wacky Tie Films
Luca/Lucia,
Serbia, 2022, triller 94’, with English subtitles
Director: Ivica Vidanovic
Luca, daughter of the retired secret service inspector Petar went missing. Wanting to find the reason of her disappearance, Petar digs deep into his past and his world of lies slowly starts to crumble.
Actors: Jovo Maksic, Smiljana Marinkovic
Production: Apollon, Cinnamon Films, PFI Studios
Saturday, 29.7.2022.
21.00 PERAŠKI TRG – MAIN SELECTION
Exodus/EXODUS,
Sweden, 2023, drama, 102’, with English subtitles
Director Abbe Hassan
A professional smuggler tries to save a 12-year-old girl whose family has gone missing in the Syrian war.
Actors: Iwan Alqatami, Khaled Alqatami. Aliki Andriomenou
Production: B-Reel Films, Ekome, Green Olive Films
Pelikan/Pelican,
Croatia, 2022, drama-comedy 87’, with English subtitles
Director: Filip Heraković
A spa resort way past its finest years, people so relaxed they are on the verge of dying, and one goalkeeper trying to find salvation in a vacuum. Vacuum cleaner, that is.
Actors: Edi Ćelić, Lucija Barišić, Marko Petrić, Ivan Glowatzky, Tena Nemet Brankov
Production: Wolfgang & Dolly
Sunday, 30.7.2022.
21.00 PERAŠKI TRG – MAIN SELECTION
Petka Krst u kamenu/ A Cross In The Desert,
Serbia, Jordan, 2022, drama, 123’, with English subtitles
Director: Aleksandar Hadzi Djurovic
Pious girl Paraskeva spent 40 years of her life in desert fighting temptations, sins and inner demons.
Actors: Milena Predic, Milica Stefanovic, Filfip Hajdukovic
Production: Aleksandrija film, Filmski Centar Srbije, Jordan Pioneers
DOC.SHORT PROGRAM.
18.30 Documentary and Short film selection, at Crkva Roždestva Presvete Bogorodice – Perast
26.7
Duga Resa/Fringe Infringe, 2021, documentary, Serbia, 65’, Serbian, Croatian, Serbo-Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Slovakian, Žminj dialect (Istria) with English subtitles
Director: Škart collective
27.7.
Enez, 2022, short film, France, 42’, French with English subtitles
Director: Emmanuel Piton
Rudarke/Female Miners, 2022, documentary, Serbia, 36’30’’, Serbian with English subtitles
Director: Marija Djokovic, Natasa Jankovic
28.7
Snjeguljica/Snow White, 2022, short film, Croatia, 14’40’’, Croatian with English subtitles
Director: Lana Barić
Between me and you, 2022, short film, Bulgaria, 20’, Bulgarian with English subtitles
Director: Ilina Perianova
Castling, 2022, short film, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 18’5’’, English with English subtitles
Director: Nikica Čerkez
29.7.
Dubica, 2021, documentary, Croatia, 88’, Croatian, English with English subtitles
Director: Marina Aničić Spremo
30.7.
It has passed and it is fine, 2022, documentary, Hungary, 27’45’’, Hungarian with English subtitles
Director: Zsuzsa Debre
Behind The Loom, 2021, documentary – animation, USA 11’, English
Director: Heejoo Kim
Youth selection:
Love Note, 2022, short film, USA, 5’53’’
Director: Kirby Soderberg
Kung Fu Scriptures, 2022, short film, USA, 3’1’’, English, Mandarin Chinese, Yue Chinese (Cantonese) with English subtitles
Director: Kadi Tsang