{{ newsTitle }} {{ newsVisible ? '✦' : '✧'}}
- New Talents Open Call
Eastern Neighbours Film Festival (ENFF) began in The Netherlands in 2008 with the idea to offer Dutch and international audiences a unique glimpse into the cinema of their neighbors from Eastern and Southern Europe. This annual event presents the most recent, exciting, and thought‐provoking films, from countries with small, but often powerful film industries, that… Read more: New Talents Open Call - ENFF 2023 On Demand!
Unable To attend the festival in person? No problem! From November 27th to December 3rd, we’re thrilled to bring you a curated selection of this year’s films available for online viewing! Catch our captivating Opening Film Ivan’s Land, or the touching Closing Film Seventh Heaven. Or explore a collection of shorts from the New Talents Competition! Follow along… Read more: ENFF 2023 On Demand! - What’s up in Slovak Cinema? A conversation with Monika Lostakova
We talked with Monika Lošťáková about contemporary Slovak cinema. - ENFF and the Eastern European Film Festival Network!
The Eastern European Film Festival Network brings together five film festivals dedicated to promoting and showcasing Eastern European cinema, alongside one partner organisation. - Masterclasses
Through these masterclasses we approach two memory in film from different angles: memories from a personal or collective recollection through archive material. - Work in Progress
In Work in Progress, emerging filmmakers and artists will present their works in development to the audience and engage in discussions with Dutch experts. - Festival Timetable Available!
- Check out the catalogue for our 2023 edition!
- Music at ENFF
Every year, ENFF brings special musical guests who bring beauty to the program and further represent the rich cultures of their countries to a Dutch audience. - Film Marathon
Join us for the Film Marathon, a new concept in which we merge two components, Short Films, Big Stories, and New Talents Competition into a whole-day screening of short films!
| Director | Damjan Kozole |
| Producer | Danijel Hocevar – Vertigo |
| Writer | Damjan Kozole |
| Editor | Jurij Moskon |
| Camera | Matjaz Mrak |
| Sound | Julij Zornik |
| Screening | 28 October 2017 | 18:00 hours | Het Nutshuis 1 November 2017 | 19:15 hours | Filmhuis Den Haag 3 November 2017 | 17:45 hours | Filmhuis Den Haag 4 November 2017 | 15:45 hours | Filmhuis Den Haag 6 November 2017 | 19:30 hours | Filmhuis Den Haag |
| Original Title | MEJE |
| Year | 2016 |
| Length | 10 min |
| Country | Slovenia |
| Section | CONFRONTING BORDERS |
A real pearl! A powerful and poetic one-take short of a real event happening on the Slovenian border. The film has won the Human Rights Award at Sarajevo Film Festival 2016 and the main award as the best short Slovenian film.
Synopsis
24 October, 2015. A nice day in autumn in a nice landscape. A crowd of refugees and migrants accompanied by soldiers and police officers make their way from the Schengen border between Slovenia and Croatia towards the refugee camp in Brezice. Suddenly, the landscape starts to appear less nice than it was. In 2002, the distinguished Slovenian filmmaker Damjan Kozole shot a feature film on the exact same border about two traffickers smuggling people into the EU. This time, reality replaced fiction. He decided to take a ‘no directing’ approach by using static camera, like an eerie remake of Lumiere’s The Arrival of a Train.
Director’s statement
When the wave of refugees reached Hungary, it was only a matter of time before these people would spill over into Slovenia. I knew – as a director and as a person – that I had to react to these tragic events. I was dumbfounded and I didn’t know how to document their journey. We put up the camera and waited for seven hours. After that, everything happened on its own. We got about four hours of film in the can. I felt that was enough.
Festivals & Awards (selection)
Sarajevo Film Festival 2016 – Human Rights Special Mention | DokuDoc, Slovenia 2016 – Jury Prize for the Best Film | Slovenian Film Festival 2016 – Vesna Award for the Best Documentary Film | Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania 2017 | Go Short – Nijmegen International Short Film Festival, Netherlands 2017