after the fall of the wall
Overview of films
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Mona Lisa from Sarajevo
Bato Cengic | 28' | Bosnia and Herzegovina | World premiere
Personal video diary sketching the (cultural) life of a city at war. -
Of Freaks and Men
Alexei Balabanov | 93' | Russia | -
Story about deep human passions (in its film style a reference to photography around 1900, including captions). About two families in Saint Petersburg -
Paper Heads
Dusan Hanák | 96' | Slovakia | -
A film about freedom and bondage, state power and about a totalitarian regime. A film that uses archive footage and pictures of the velvet revolution -
The Powder Keg
Goran Paskaljevic | 100' | Serbia | -
A series of fictional events set in Belgrade in November 1995, the night of the Dayton agreement. The director is mainly worried about the ordinary… -
Poznan ’56
Filip Bajon | 109' | Poland | -
A story from Polish history that has always been taboo. The well-known strike in Poznan in 1956 was oppressed in a gruesome way. Events are… -
Russian Enigma
Robin van Erven Dorens, Tijn Sadee | 23' | Netherlands | World premiere
An interview with the ex-Soviet president Michail Gorbatchov about his life now. -
The Shoe
Laila Pakalnina | 83' | Latvia | -
Poetic black & white feature about the relationship between the Soviet occupiers and the Latvian population at the height of the Cold War. A shoe… -
Silver Heads
Vladimir Maslov | 85' | Russia | -
A group of scientists performs a unique experiment in a bunker in a mysterious forest. They try to create an ecologically perfect being by crossing… -
Smoke
Tomas Vorel | 89' | Czech Republic | -
A post-modern, metaphorical parody of the totalitarian Communist regime. Performed by young avant-garde actors from Prague and made in the style of si -
Totalitarian Romance
Vyacheslav Sorokin | 120' | Russia | -
The totalitarian Communist era seems to be gone and will also be forgotten before we know it. A story about an impossible love between a… -
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Wagner
Andrei Slabakov | 108' | Bulgaria | -
Wagner is the name of one of the large presses in the factory where Elena works. One day Elena is given an apartment. This is…