{{ mainName }}

{{ newsTitle }} {{ newsVisible ? '✦' : '✧'}}

    • On Tour: DJORDJEVIC’s Working class goes to hell
      ENFF On Tour lands in Rotterdam next Sunday, October 27, at Kino for the Dutch premiere of Working Class Goes to Hell by Serbian director Mladen Đorđević. The director of The Life and Death of a Porno Gang (2009) returns with another uncompromising, wildly imaginative, and transgressive mix of genre and social drama that you won’t want to miss.
    • On Tour: CHAJDAS’s IMAGO
      ENFF arrives in The Hague with the post-punk psychological drama Imago by Polish director Olga Chajdas. The Dutch premiere of Imago will take place on Friday, November 1, at 19:00 at Laaktheater, The Hague. Our signature Balkan cocktail will be served before the screening.
    • On Tour: Katalin MOLDOVAI debut’s Without Air
      The debut feature film by Romanian director Katalin Moldovai comes to LHC Utrecht as part of the ENFF On Tour program. A seemingly innocent report triggers a chain of events that causes Ana, a high school teacher, to lose her footing in the world she once believed was secure.

On Tour: The Winner of ENFF Competition & Other Glorious Shorts

2 June 2023 | 19:00 hours | Filmtheater Kriterion | Roetersstraat 170, 1018 WE Amsterdam

Together with the arthouse cinema Kriterion, ENFF is organising a special film night of thought-provoking shorts produced in Eastern Europe, including the winner of our New Talents Competition program. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director of Sugar Free Jasmina Bilic. After the screening, the Eastern Neighbours Film Festival invites you to a cozy Balkan cocktail. Buy tickets here.

PROGRAMME:

Branka by Akos K. Kovacs | Hungary | 2021 | 20 min – The Winner of the ENFF’s New Talents Competititon

Yugoslavia, 1991. Somewhere near the Hungarian border, far away from the war zones and frontlines, Branka – a nurse from Sarajevo – gets a job at a maternity ward of a state hospital. The young woman is all alone, she is far away from her family stuck in the warzone. On her first day she meets Angela who came to deliver her first baby without anyone accompanying her. Strong bonds form between the two of them in a short period of time. They recognize their own vulnerability in each other. However, it soon turns out that loneliness is not the hardest burden Branka has to carry. 

A Pigeon’s Song by Eneos Carka | Albania, Belgium | 2021 | 16 min

Recounting the tragic and forgotten love story of the filmmaker’s Albanian great-grandparents and their forced separation, A Pigeon’s Song deals with a personal story during one of Europe’s harshest communist regimes.  

Director takes the audience on a journey into his family’s past while at the same time discussing the fragility of our memory. Awakened by the sound of a pigeon each morning, the filmmaker makes a daily routine out of leafing through his great-grandfather’s prison diary. He learns that a pigeon also accompanied him as he wrote in his cell. This solitary, timeless pigeon fills the gaps of what is forgotten while awakening unspoken family wounds. Intertwining fiction and reality in a visually experimental manner, the director wants to make sure that the personal and political drama of his family, in fact the drama of several generations, the drama of a country, is not allowed to fade away and be forgotten in the darkest corners of history. 

Babajanja by Ante Zlatko Stolica | Croatia | 2022 | 13 min

An oneiric documentary essay with suspense of a horror awarded at Sarajevo Film Festival and MakeDOX for its stunning visuals and original way of mixing childhood ghosts with harsh reality.

With a suitable, well-chosen tone of the voice over, the film looks back in time. The narrator is trying to find the mysterious woman he was scared of as a child. Digging through his memories, dreams and forgotten horror films, he seeks to discover who she was and where she is today. He includes his family, relatives, fellow villagers in his investigation – no one is particularly keen on helping, but gathering more and more information about her, he is getting closer. 

3 Dialogues About the Future by Alina Manolache | Romania | 2022 | 14 min

New voice of Romanian cinema by the director whose practice stands at the intersection between documentary cinema, artistic research and education. A short film in which three robots discuss life and what it means to be human. 

What is it like to navigate our world as an artificially intelligent robot? What is there to learn about homo sapiens in order to become as ‘human’ as possible? Three pairs of robots take us through their learning process. They track, analyse, and draw information by watching people in different life situations. But their algorithmic vision comes in contrast with a meditative, rather poetic dialogue in which they deconstruct and reassemble the definition of humanity as we know it.

Sugar Free by Jasmina Bilic | The Netherlands | 2022 | 30 min + Q&A with the director

Taking care of your body is an investment but you get something in return that is priceless. A short documentary about extremely high blood sugar, awarded at Pure Magic International Film Festival and Indie Movies Spark FF. 

Sugar Free is an intimate story of Dennis, a man struggling with type 2 diabetes. Through a lighthearted lens, viewers will witness the challenges Dennis faces in managing his illness and the impact it has on his life and relationships. Despite the seriousness of his situation, Dennis finds humour in his journey and shares his story with honesty and vulnerability.