New Talents Competition #2

Filmhuis, Den Haag | Sunday 1 Dec | 12:15 hours

Discover the new talent that Eastern Europe has to offer during New Talents Competition 2. The public can vote on their favorite short during New Talents Competition screenings #1 and #2. The winner will be announced on Sunday.

This screening includes a Q&A with the directors Mia Martinovic (Collectors), Zulfikar Filandra (Victory), and Andrija Tomic (You Idiot).

The New Talents Competition 2 consists of the following short films:

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DOG DAYS ARE OVER

Kinga Pudełek, 2023
23 min | Poland

The morning visit from a downstairs neighbour and his atypical request, take the main character on a journey down the memory lane of a lost relationship.

A girl breaks up with her boyfriend, and her neighbour’s cherished dog passes away. While some might dismiss these events as unrelated, they’d be mistaken. The visually captivating and intimately filmed Dog Days Are Over is a story where you can laugh and cry simultaneously. The camera seems to show the innermost emotions of the characters through humour and pain. With a brilliant eye for colour and composition, the filmmaker tells a deeply human story with very little words.

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FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION) – New Horizons International Film Festival, 2024 | Polish Film Festival, 2024

Collectors

Mia Martinović, 2022
10 min | Croatia

She enters the Archives to hand over her memories. How much time can she get in return for the things she experienced?

A man narrates the memories of a Collector, showing us images and sounds she collected on her journey through the land of fire and ice. Through sounds and images, collected memories are revealed and played with in the film-essay “Collectors“. An emotional landscape is created and allows the audience to contemplate and dream, as the narrator wonders about the time that passed.

VICTORY

Zulfikar Filandra, 2024
22 min | Bosnia and Herzegovina

A clash between Bosnian workers and Western hipsters happening on the river Drina, the river separating Bosnia and Serbia.

Velid, a worker at an explosives factory in the vicinity of Gorazde, is fired along with several of his colleagues. While other workers are protesting and starting a strike against the factory, Velid falls into depression and wanders alone around the city and the banks of the river Drina. Two young, aspiring film directors visiting Bosnia bump into him and decide to engage him in their film. This develops in a painful way.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION) – Bosnian Herzegovinian Film Festival in New York City, 2024 – Best Short Narrative Film | Silver Frame Srebrenica, 2024 | International Human Rights Film Festival Tirana, 2024 | Sarajevo Film Festival, 2024

You idiot

Andrija Tomić, 2023
10 min | Croatia

After a friendly amateur football match, the author unexpectedly gets a visit from an old “friend”.

“You Idiot” brings a mix of different film languages and styles together in a story about friendship, violence and masculinity. The uncompromising approach to duration and perspective is genre-bending and daring.

Liburnia Film Festival, 2023 – World Premiere | Beldocs, International Documentary Film Festival Belgrade 2024

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New Talents Competition #2