Films from Official Competition not to be missed

29.01.2015.

In addition to the titles already presented, IDFA’s award-winning Of Men and War and the current Oscar nominee Virunga, teh director of ZagrebDox Nenad Puhovski has singled out more interesitng titles.

In addition to the titles already presented, IDFA’s award-winning Of Men and War and the current Oscar nominee Virunga international competition includes the DOK Leipzig winner, the French film Rules of the Game. In the course of six months, directors Patrice Chagnard and Claudine Bories follow several young people without qualifications looking for a job, unmasking numerous absurdities on the job market. The shocking 15-minute Dutch film Shipwreck by Morgan Knibbe, the winner of Locarno’s Silver Leopard, follows the events immediately after a tragedy off the Italian island of Lampedusa, when 300 African immigrants died. The film Sleepless in New York by Christian Frei takes intimate testimonies of several heart-broken New Yorkers to question the very foundations of love and the accompanying feelings of pleasure or agony.

In addition to Ulrich Seidl’s latest work In the Basement, the regional competition includes the Italian film On the Bride Side, directed by the trio Augugliaro-del Grande-al Nassiry. This interesting hybrid between a documentary and political activism, awarded in Venice, is a story about an Italian journalist and a Palestinian poet trying to help a group of people from Palestine and Syria to emigrate to Sweden – by organising a fake wedding caravan from Milan to Stockholm. The Hungarian film Cain’s Childlren, directed by Marcell Gerö, uses a story of three men who became killers as children to speak about destiny, sins and Hungarian history.

Puhovski announced a large number of Croatian documentaries in the regional competition again this year. This year the Festival screens Veruda by Igor Bezinović, The Spirits Diary by Damir Čučić, Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry by Neven Hitrec, The Last 100 by Morana Komljenović, I Like That Super Most the Best by Eva Kraljević, Sick by Hrvoje Mabić, and Free by Vlatka Vorkapić. The one to highlight is the debut film by the renowned Zagreb-based cinematographer Eva Kraljević about her relationship with her sister Mia who has Down syndrome.