All the Cities of the North
100'
Serbia
IFFR 2017
Juri Rechinsky is eager to seek out the dark edges of human existence. Just look at the titles of his previous films: the short Why so Happy and the documentary Sickfuckpeople, which portrays the life of a group of young Ukrainian drug addicts on the verge of adulthood.
Rechinsky's first feature is called Ugly and, in the words of the director, it focuses on human suffering and the apparent impossibility of happiness. It revolves around a young couple, Austrian Hanna and Ukrainian Jura, and both their families. Without exception, they have a hard time: they suffer, wrestle, lose and despair. In the way in which his characters try to work their way up, Rechinsky also shows between the lines the great differences in mentality between his homeland Ukraine and Austria, the country where he now works. A split that cuts through the whole of Europe.
IFFR 2017
Programme IFFR 2017
100'
Serbia
IFFR 2017
93'
Germany
IFFR 2017
Coming-of-age drama in which a Puerto Rican teen girl is living at her strict grandmother’s house, waiting until she can move to America to be with her mom.
98'
Puerto Rico
IFFR 2017