Programme Overview 2018

Germany, Austria
Cold Hell
Young taxi driver Özge witnesses a brutal murder. And the killer saw her. Her only chance for rescue ironically lies within an unlikely alliance with the indifferent inspector Steiner.
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Bulgaria, Germany, Macedonia
Directions
Five taxi drivers are chauffeuring a diversity of passengers through the night in Sofia. The car radios transmit a heated debate about the desparate deed of a colleague.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia
Men Don’t Cry
A group of war veterans from the Yugoslav conflict is to overcome old resentments in a workshop in a mountain hotel. Easier said than done.
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Germany, Finland, Poland
Over the Limit
Marta Prus portrays the Russian top athlete Margarita Mamun, while she is preparing for Olympics 2016. The training is brutal, especially in mental terms.
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Germany, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia
Perseverance
Twenty short stories that touch upon elementary human questions. Miha Knific collected real stories from newspaper articles and narratives and turned them into a mosaic of life and human existence.
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Germany, France, Netherlands, Turkey
Something Useful
Leyla, a poet and a lawyer, meets on the night train the 21-year-old Canan, who has a difficult task in her hands. The two women are more connected than one might initially expect.
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Germany, Austria
The Best of All Worlds
Adrian Goiginger’s first feature film about his childhood in Salzburg’s drug scene has been one of the most touching and interesting Austrian films in years – without the sentimental kitsch.
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Germany, Slovenia
The Miner
In 2007, Mehmedalija Alić discovered a mass grave with four thousand murdered war refugees from the Second World War. Hannah Slak adapted the miner’s autobiography into a film.
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Germany, Austria
Wild Mouse
Georg, fired from his job as a music critic, spirals down into a deep self-crisis and continuously plies his ex-boss with acts of vandalism. His frustration leads him to the countryside where he wants to end his life.
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