Marathi

Fandry (2013) Mumbai

Love, the most beautiful emotion in all living creatures that God has made knows no bar, caste or boundaries, is the central theme of Fandry. A young lad (Jabya) falls in love with his classmate. Incidentally, he belongs to a lower caste, a family below the poverty line which does all sorts of jobs in the village to survive like catching Pigs and the girl belongs to a higher caste. His parents are working hard to arrange money for their daughter's wedding while Jabya is collecting money for new clothes to impress the girl. Fandry is a story of his aspirations, quest, sorrows, anguish and frustrations. Fandry also touches upon the age old monster of Caste System which is still lurking large upon the society.

Director:

 Nagraj Manjule

Writer:

 Nagraj Manjule

Stars:

 Somnath Awghade, Sanjay Chaudhri, Chhaya Kadam

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Serbian

Cabaret Balkan (1998) - Chennai


In Beograd, mid-1990s, 20 people's paths crisscross one night in rage andtheater. A callow youth dents a car; its owner hunts him down and trashes his father's flat. Michael, back from abroad, hopes to reclaim Natalia; her new, younger lover seems outclassed. A Bosnian drives a bus to eke out subsistence; his son works the Black Market for a sadist. A cabby buys drinks for a cop he crippled in revenge. Swarthy friends at a gym confess betrayals of each other; violence erupts, then one menaces a woman on a train. Another young woman, traumatized when a knife-wielding youth commandeers her bus, calls for help and ends up with a gun at her head. It's a cabaret macabre.

Director:

 Goran Paskaljevic

Writers:

 Dejan Dukovski (play), Goran Paskaljevic, 3 more credits »

Stars:

 Mira Banjac, Ivan Bekjarev, Aleksandar Bercek

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Midwinter Night's Dream (2004) - Chennai

The film describes the Lazarus, who, after ten years in prison, he finds in his apartment refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina – A clear single mother with an autistic girl John. Having regained his freedom, he decides to rid itself of the burden of his past and start a new life in a country that also turns a new leaf in the desire for a better future. Clearly left the husband, who was never able to come to terms with the fact that his daughter was autistic. It also seeks to begin a new life, leaving a difficult past behind him. As Jennifer and John have no other home, Lazarus does not have the heart to ask them to leave his apartment. These three individuals on the margins of life will soon develop a much closed relationship.

Director:

 Goran Paskaljevic

Writers:

 Filip David, Goran Paskaljevic (screenplay), 1 more credit »

Stars:

 Lazar Ristovski, Jasna Zalica, Jovana Mitic

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Honeymoons (2009) - Chennai

'Honeymoons' shows us that the distance between Eastern and Western Europe is more than a question of kilometers. The films follows two couples, one is Albania, one in Serbia, who in the midst of wedding celebrations decide to leave their respective countries to realize their dreams in Western Europe. They soon find themselves trapped between their countries' past and their future lives together.

Director:

 Goran Paskaljevic

Writers:

 Goran Paskaljevic, Genc Permeti (screenplay)

Stars:

 Nebojsa Milovanovic, Jelena Trkulja, Jozef Shiroka

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When Day Breaks (2012)

The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It was buried by an inmate Isaac Weiss in the year 1941. The professor finds out that his real parents, the Weiss's, gave him away to their friends, the Brankovs, just before they were taken into the camp. Inside the box there is an unfinished musical score, called "When day breaks", composed by the inmate Isaac Weiss. Searching for the truth about himself and his origins, Misha discovers the little-known truth about Judenlager Semlin camp, one of the worst Nazi execution sites in the heart of contemporary Belgrade. At the same time, the professor's obsession is to complete the composition, started by his father, and to perform it on the site of the former camp... which he, after many vicissitudes, finally succeeds. 

Director:

 Goran Paskaljevic

Writers:

 Filip David, Goran Paskaljevic

Stars:

 Mustafa Nadarevic, Predrag Ejdus, Meto Jovanovski

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The Door (2012) - Chennai

This is a story of a special relationship between two women, a writer and her maid.

Director:

 István Szabó

Writers:

 Magda Szabó (novel), István Szabó (screenplay), 1 more credit »

Stars:

 Helen Mirren, Martina Gedeck, Károly Eperjes

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Serbo-Croatian

Beach Guard in Winter (1976)


Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life. School he finished doesn't give him the opportunity to find a job, so he accepts the position of a beach guard in winter period. He marries the girl he loves, believing that love will prevail over all misfortunes. Soon he realizes that his parents started in that way, but their enthusiasm was destroyed by life problems. His wife abandons him, his father dies and the young man is at fresh start, but this time burdened with bitterness...

Director:

 Goran Paskaljevic

Writer:

 Gordan Mihic

Stars:

 Irfan Mensur, Gordana Kosanovic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic 

Poseban tretman (1980)

Dr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eating, the healing effects of listening to Wagner's music and psychodrama, a group of six patients have been taken to visit the brewery where there is a problem of alcoholism in the workplace. The events that followed reveal that the doctor used his own way of treatment in order to express his own essentially despotic and hypocritical personality. 

Director:

 Goran Paskaljevic

Writers:

 Filip David, Dusan Kovacevic (play), 2 more credits »

Stars:

 Ljuba Tadic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Dusica Zegarac