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Unusual times call for unusual films – with atmospheric density, melancholic proximity, hard-hitting humour and analytical astuteness, the films in this year’s Spectrum section get up close and personal with the spirit of the times. Engage with town and country, old and young, men and women, war and peace, emotion and discourse. They think before they speak and then quickly get to the point: full of dark humour, ranging from the experimental and contemplative to the adventurous and historically aware, they are always on an equal footing with both subject matter and their audience alike.

 

Galloping Mind

Galloping Mind

Galloping Mind

Wim Vandekeybus
Belgium, Hungary, The Netherlands / 2015 / 120 min
Sam and Sarah lead a comfortable and blissful life, despite Sarah’s wishes to have a child and Sam’s gnawing reluctance to become a father. Yet destiny has a wicked sense of humour; an encounter with the explosive Lula will topple their ...
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The Count in Oranges

The Count in Oranges

Graf v apelsinakh

Vlada Senkova
Belarus / 2015 / 120 min
Summer: time to leave the city behind and head for the dacha, where the preparations for a birthday celebration are well underway. The joy promised by this teenage outing is soon overshadowed by calamities of both a minor and major nature however: a ...
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Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home

Faton Bajraktari
Kosovo, Macedonia / 2016 / 92 min
Agron, a former fighter with the Kosovo Liberation Army UÇK, returns after four years in captivity. Back home the sense of delight soon gives way to practical considerations which dictate that, at least officially, this returning son is to remain a ...
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Incarnation

Incarnation

Inkarnacija

Filip Kovačević
Serbia / 2016 / 82 min
Sat on a bench in broad daylight a young man regains consciousness, without the slightest clue as to his identity. Whereupon four masked assassins set upon and kill him. Only for him to reawaken and be faced with his pursuers anew; caught in a time ...
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Mamon

Mamon

Mamon

Vladimír Michálek
Czech Republic / 2015 / 108 min
The investigative work of journalist Petr Vlček leads him to evidence of a multi-million dollar financial scandal involving a major energy company. As if that weren't enough, further enquiries suggest that his brother of all people is deeply ...
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My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan

My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan

Moya Babusya Fanni Kaplan

Olena Demyanenko
Ukraine / 2016 / 105 min
Why did the Bolshevik secret police destroy several pages from the dossier on Fanny Kaplan, the woman who attempted to assassinate Lenin? Why are the pages pertaining to the years 1917 and 1918 missing? This playful, unconventional biopic does more ...
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Ghost Mountaineer

Ghost Mountaineer

Must Alpinist

Urmas Eero Liiv
Estonia / 2015 / 103 min
At the end of the Soviet era a heterogeneous group of Estonian students sets off to the mountains at the border to Mongolia, in search of a two week adventure. Yet soon the events take an unexpected turn and the youngsters are forced to confront a ...
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The Paper

The Paper

Novine

Dalibor Matanić
Croatia / 2016 / 100 min
A car accident with three fatalities, political intrigue and the scheming of a mysterious tycoon are the central issues of this Croatian TV series set around the staff of a daily newspaper which finds itself under pressure from the government due to ...
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The Pact

The Pact

Pakt

Marek Lechki
Poland / 2015 / 100 min
Piotr Grodecki is an investigative journalist for the “Kurier” newspaper. Despite the resistance of his superiors he insists on undertaking investigations on his own initiative, as a result of which catches wind of a financial scandal. His ...
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Socialist Zombie Massacre

Socialist Zombie Massacre

Socialistický Zombie Mord

Rastislav Blažek, Peter Čermák, Zuzana Paulini
Slovakia / 2014 / 94 min
The world of film has certainly never witnessed anything like this before: bloodthirsty zombies go on the rampage in a socialist-era school, surrounded by placard newspapers, Lenin busts and Husák portraits. They are out to kill their classmates, ...
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