* 22 May 2013, L'Entrepot
19:00 Official Opening Ceremony
* Opening speeches
* Screening of the film "Roses" (Montenegro), dir. Goran Bjelanovic
(Selected in Short film corner of Cannes Film Festival 2013)
- Irina Bokova – General Director of UNESCO
- Minister of culture of Montenegro, Mr. Branislav Micunovic Zaga
- President of the council of the festival, Mr. Jordan Plevnes
- Honorary President of the council of the festival Yves Boisset
- Ambassador of Croatia in France, Mr. Ivo Goldstajn
- Mayor of Veliko Trnovo (European capitol of culture 2019), Mr. Daniel Panov
- Mayor of Ohrid, Macedonia (candidate for European capitol of culture 2020), Mr. Nikola Bakraceski
- Mr. Meto Jovanovski, winner of award SEE Actor 2013
* Screening of the film "Roses" (Montenegro), dir. Goran Bjelanovic
(Selected in Short film corner of Cannes Film Festival 2013)
20:00 Night boats
Croatia
Film by: Igor Mirkovic
The last one is the same as the first: unexpected, astonishing and awkward. There are hundreds of stories of first love. This is a story of the last one. A story of a romance unexpected, a romance that would never be if Helena and Jakov had not eloped like a pair of 17-year-old teenagers jumping over a balcony fence. Escaping from a retirement home. Life suddenly changes: they travel through roadless areas in a car that has no reverse, they dump their cell phones in a river, they say to hell with everything and like fugitives they take on one last adventure trying to make it on a ship Helena didn't board 60 years earlier. They haven't slept for three nights and three days, and thunder roars in the distance...
Film by: Igor Mirkovic
The last one is the same as the first: unexpected, astonishing and awkward. There are hundreds of stories of first love. This is a story of the last one. A story of a romance unexpected, a romance that would never be if Helena and Jakov had not eloped like a pair of 17-year-old teenagers jumping over a balcony fence. Escaping from a retirement home. Life suddenly changes: they travel through roadless areas in a car that has no reverse, they dump their cell phones in a river, they say to hell with everything and like fugitives they take on one last adventure trying to make it on a ship Helena didn't board 60 years earlier. They haven't slept for three nights and three days, and thunder roars in the distance...
21:30 Music concert: La Colonie Volvox
La Colonie Volvox is a band whose music is constantly changing and shifting genres. Starting in 2002 as a mixture of avant-garde and improvised jazz fusion, and evolving into more narrative sonic concepts referring to sacred chants and political viewpoints. Such musical journeys, transcending from the traditional songs into the world music and embracing the ambient music within free jazz, were defined in their releases: Abstractology (2006, SJF Records), Wasteland (2006, SJF Records), Europa (2009, EGoEast Records), East West And Rest (2010, EGoEast Records), AEIOU (2012, EGoEast Records). The most recent musical exploration of La Colonie Volvox cultivates the acoustic sounds produced as a new expression that drifts from the melo-poetic motifs of the European legacy to the American blues culture or the Sufi music, intertwined with the Macedonian vocal and instrumental tradition. These resulted with an authentic ethno-global product that incorporates Macedonian, Occitan, French, Ladino, Bulgarian and Bosnian language. Love, as the essence of the troubadour song and its universal message is the fundamental idea integrated within their music.
Currently La Colonie Volvox is a sextet consisted of: Sasho Gigov – Gish (vocals, percussion), Kalina Velkovska (vocals), Predrag Ikonomovski (ac.guitar, vocals), Nenad Nedelkov (tambura, vocal), Dragan Stojkovski (tambura, vocals), Goce Naumov (percussion, vocals).
La Colonie Volvox has a prosperous concert experience with performances on notable festivals such as EXIT (Serbia), Interzone (Serbia), Bansko Jazz Festival (Bulgaria), Venice Biennial (Italy), Balkan Ante Portas (Belgium) etc.
Currently La Colonie Volvox is a sextet consisted of: Sasho Gigov – Gish (vocals, percussion), Kalina Velkovska (vocals), Predrag Ikonomovski (ac.guitar, vocals), Nenad Nedelkov (tambura, vocal), Dragan Stojkovski (tambura, vocals), Goce Naumov (percussion, vocals).
La Colonie Volvox has a prosperous concert experience with performances on notable festivals such as EXIT (Serbia), Interzone (Serbia), Bansko Jazz Festival (Bulgaria), Venice Biennial (Italy), Balkan Ante Portas (Belgium) etc.
* 23 May 2013, L'Entrepot
18:00 Kyiamet
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Short animated film by Ivan Ramadan
Short animated film by Ivan Ramadan
18:10 Ace of spades - Bad destiny
Montenegro
Film by: Draško Đurović
The nineties. Two brothers, Beli and Kenta want to escape to Italy. Kenta meets Sanja, Beli is wanted by his friends from the past. Can you escape the nineties?
Film by: Draško Đurović
The nineties. Two brothers, Beli and Kenta want to escape to Italy. Kenta meets Sanja, Beli is wanted by his friends from the past. Can you escape the nineties?
20:00 Snow
Kosovo
Short film by Fisnik Muji
Short film by Fisnik Muji
20:07 Mama
Turkey
Short film by Ahmet Bikic
Short film by Ahmet Bikic
20:10 Agon (Sunrise)
Albania, Greece
Film by Robert Budina
Saimir and his younger brother, Vini are Albanian. They both try to integrate in the life of Thessaloniki a town in north of Greece in their own way. Saimir is engaged to a Greek young woman and works as a repairman in his father-in-law's repair shop. He tries his best to help his brother Vini become self-sufficient and respectful through work. However, Vini lacks both the patience and persistence that his brother has. He is compelled to work in jobs that his brother finds for him, but is systematically fired.
Hurt and chap-fallen, he does not want to be dependent on Saimir and seeks to show to him that he can walk on his own. Trying to overcome the despair at a bar near the harbor, he gets acquainted with Ben, a tiny trafficker of human beings, who is closely related to the local Albanian mafia. Thus, the page of disillusioned Vini's life is turning. He earns easy money and lives in luxury, but in the meantime he discovers the nightmare of clandestine prostitution as well as the terrible destiny of many girls who have emigrated with the hope for a better life. He falls in love with Majlinda, a victim of prostitution, and will do his utmost to get her out of the claws of Keno, leader of the local mafia. High-minded and immature, he will seek the help of his brother Saimir and will pull him to the swirl of violence until the final drama…
Film by Robert Budina
Saimir and his younger brother, Vini are Albanian. They both try to integrate in the life of Thessaloniki a town in north of Greece in their own way. Saimir is engaged to a Greek young woman and works as a repairman in his father-in-law's repair shop. He tries his best to help his brother Vini become self-sufficient and respectful through work. However, Vini lacks both the patience and persistence that his brother has. He is compelled to work in jobs that his brother finds for him, but is systematically fired.
Hurt and chap-fallen, he does not want to be dependent on Saimir and seeks to show to him that he can walk on his own. Trying to overcome the despair at a bar near the harbor, he gets acquainted with Ben, a tiny trafficker of human beings, who is closely related to the local Albanian mafia. Thus, the page of disillusioned Vini's life is turning. He earns easy money and lives in luxury, but in the meantime he discovers the nightmare of clandestine prostitution as well as the terrible destiny of many girls who have emigrated with the hope for a better life. He falls in love with Majlinda, a victim of prostitution, and will do his utmost to get her out of the claws of Keno, leader of the local mafia. High-minded and immature, he will seek the help of his brother Saimir and will pull him to the swirl of violence until the final drama…
* 24 May 2013, L'Entrepot
18:00 Incognita
Bulgaria
Film by Mihail Pandoursky
Cross the barrier! The film Incognita is an analysis of the boundless and contradictory human world. It is a new interpretation of Pavel Vezhinov’s novella The Barrier – director Mihail Pandoursky’s metaphysical look into the dark abyss of the human subconscious. Incognita is a magic mirror that each of us may look into…
Film by Mihail Pandoursky
Cross the barrier! The film Incognita is an analysis of the boundless and contradictory human world. It is a new interpretation of Pavel Vezhinov’s novella The Barrier – director Mihail Pandoursky’s metaphysical look into the dark abyss of the human subconscious. Incognita is a magic mirror that each of us may look into…
20:00 Shanghai Gypsy
Slovenia
Film by Marko Nebresnik
The main protagonists of the film are members of the gypsy family Mirga. Lutvija Belmondo Mirga narrates a story about four generations. Belmondo is the central character of the film, a gypsy king, who decided to establish his own gypsy village. He names it Shanghai. Belmondo makes a living smuggling and his power and influence grow big. He even gets the local police and politics on his side and that helps him to become untouchable for law. But with the downfall of Yugoslavia, smuggling of goods is replaced by smuggling of the arms. Though lucrative the business starts to threaten Belmondo’s personal life and he finds himself at the crossroads. Will he protect his own family or is he going to sacrifice his personal happiness for business ambitions?
Shanghai Gypsy is a story about eternal longing for happiness; it is a story about love and family ties, in which tears are intertwined with laughs. The story is set in times of the downfall of Yugoslavia. The film is shot in the authentic Romani language.
Film by Marko Nebresnik
The main protagonists of the film are members of the gypsy family Mirga. Lutvija Belmondo Mirga narrates a story about four generations. Belmondo is the central character of the film, a gypsy king, who decided to establish his own gypsy village. He names it Shanghai. Belmondo makes a living smuggling and his power and influence grow big. He even gets the local police and politics on his side and that helps him to become untouchable for law. But with the downfall of Yugoslavia, smuggling of goods is replaced by smuggling of the arms. Though lucrative the business starts to threaten Belmondo’s personal life and he finds himself at the crossroads. Will he protect his own family or is he going to sacrifice his personal happiness for business ambitions?
Shanghai Gypsy is a story about eternal longing for happiness; it is a story about love and family ties, in which tears are intertwined with laughs. The story is set in times of the downfall of Yugoslavia. The film is shot in the authentic Romani language.
* 25 May 2013, L'Entrepot
18:00 At Home
Serbia
Short film by Nenad Mikalacki
Short film by Nenad Mikalacki
18:20 September
Turkey
Film by Cemil Ağacıkoğlu
Eylul focuses on the female-male relations in Yusuf’s limited life. Yusuf’s wife (Asli) is hospitalized because of a lung disease. Her fear of death and loneliness is so strong that she doesn’t share her troubles with her husband, thereby dragging him into loneliness. And the couple starts becoming estranged to each other. At this point, the couple meets a young woman (Elena) at the hospital. After leaving the hospital, she contacts Yusuf to want his help. And an intimacy grows between them...
Film by Cemil Ağacıkoğlu
Eylul focuses on the female-male relations in Yusuf’s limited life. Yusuf’s wife (Asli) is hospitalized because of a lung disease. Her fear of death and loneliness is so strong that she doesn’t share her troubles with her husband, thereby dragging him into loneliness. And the couple starts becoming estranged to each other. At this point, the couple meets a young woman (Elena) at the hospital. After leaving the hospital, she contacts Yusuf to want his help. And an intimacy grows between them...
20:00 There's a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella
Macedonia
Short film by Vardan Tozija
Short film by Vardan Tozija
20:15 This damn transition
Romania
Film by Cristina Nichitus
A bitter comedy about the transition ...
With tycoons, and pseudo-missile bodyguard or bankrupt businesses and friends of alcohol, in constant search failed business ... from a luxury villa in an apartment worker, the seller of the boutique corner at Nelu-caloriferistul and the man laugh, or at the terrace of the blocks, which rest on a pint of beer before spraying cold , the three friends: Basil - the nose, a former trade unionist, now put on free Marcel - former boxer, ex-husband Geta, and Silviu - an unknown painter ... a world in transition, with celebrities, couples and friends of the transition, a transition aboulic, the manners and habits that lead to "explosive meeting" in the final ...
Film by Cristina Nichitus
A bitter comedy about the transition ...
With tycoons, and pseudo-missile bodyguard or bankrupt businesses and friends of alcohol, in constant search failed business ... from a luxury villa in an apartment worker, the seller of the boutique corner at Nelu-caloriferistul and the man laugh, or at the terrace of the blocks, which rest on a pint of beer before spraying cold , the three friends: Basil - the nose, a former trade unionist, now put on free Marcel - former boxer, ex-husband Geta, and Silviu - an unknown painter ... a world in transition, with celebrities, couples and friends of the transition, a transition aboulic, the manners and habits that lead to "explosive meeting" in the final ...
ACADEMIC CEREMONY 22 May 2013, INALCO
10:00 - 10:30 Academic Opening Ceremony
Opening speeches
10:30 - 12:30 Revue program
14:30 - 16:30
Selection of short feature films:
16:30 - 17:00
Opening speeches
- President of INALCO Ms. Manuelle Franck
- Minister of culture of Montenegro, Mr. Branislav Micunovic Zaga
- Ambassador of Montenegro in France, Ms. Irena Radovic
- President of the council of the festival, Mr. Jordan Plevnes
- Honorary President of the council of the festival Yves Boisset
10:30 - 12:30 Revue program
- "Njegoš" (Montenegro), author: Branko Baletic
- Homage for Ljube Cvetanovski (1949 - 2013)
- "The path of hope" (Macedonia),Short documentary film by Anita Gjorgjieska
- 12:30 - 13:00 Debate: "The Balkan between past and present" 22 May 2013
14:30 - 16:30
Selection of short feature films:
- Velvet socks (Turkey), dir. A. Baturay Tavkul
- Dushan (Macedonia), dir. Ilija Cvetkovski
- God's Land (Kosovo), dir. Mentor Spahiu
- Between paradise and hell (Macedonia), dir. Ibrahim Deari
- Farewell 2 (Croatia), dir. Irena Skoric
- The Birthday (Romania), dir. Luiza Parvu
- Play and Save (Macedonia), dir. Goran Trenchovski
- My dear (Turkey), dir. A. Baturay Tavkul
- Fauntom (Serbia), dir. Miroslav Jovic
- Elevator (Turkey), dir. Tunay Kokden
- Last autumn (Bulgaria), dir. Sofia Ilieva
- Opossum day (Romania), dir. Sergiu Baiesu
- Everything is money (Macedonia), dir. Dukagjin Borova
- Contemporary tale (Bulgaria), dir. Anna Milusheva
16:30 - 17:00
- Debate: "The future of young film makers in SEE countries"
LITERARY EVENT, 23 May 2013, L'Entrepot
18:30 - 20:00 Literary event "SEE a Paris - Paris a SEE"
"Rencontre littéraire entre écrivains français et balkaniques" présidé par Jordan Plevnes.
"Rencontre littéraire entre écrivains français et balkaniques" présidé par Jordan Plevnes.
- Adonis (Couronne d'or des Soirées poétiques de Struga, Macédoine)
- Francis Combes (Anthologie de son oeuvre poétique "La terre n'est pas ronde", publiée l'année dernière à Struga)
- François-Xavier Maigre, Lauréat du prix "Les ponts de l'Unesco"
- Nikolaj Stojanov, Président de Balkanika, Bulgarie
- Silvestre Clancier, Président du PEN français
- Jean-Yves Montagu
- Jean-Pierre Simeon, Directeur artistique du printemps des poètes
- Luan Rama, Albanie
- Vidoslav Stevanovic, Serbie
- Hughes Labrusse
- Michel Lecourt
- Kani Mehmedi, Kosovo
- Laure Cambau
- Bruno Doucey
- Alain Lance
DOCUMENTARY SELECTION, 08 - 11 July 2013, INALCO
SEE a Paris Docs
Official selection of documentary movies
08.07.2013:
• My father Izet (Macedonia), author: Ljube Cvetanovski
• Salty life (Montenegro), author Smajil Slado Divanovic
09.07.2013:
• Njegos (Montenegro) author Branko Baletic
• In step with time (Bulgaria), author Anton Partalev
10.07.2013:
• Botoric Family (Serbia), author Srdjan Knezevic
• Album (Croatia), author Branko Istvancic
11.07.2013:
• There once was the land of hard-working people (Slovenia), author Ursa Menart
• Sonja (Serbia), author Dragana Kanjevac
Official selection of documentary movies
08.07.2013:
• My father Izet (Macedonia), author: Ljube Cvetanovski
• Salty life (Montenegro), author Smajil Slado Divanovic
09.07.2013:
• Njegos (Montenegro) author Branko Baletic
• In step with time (Bulgaria), author Anton Partalev
10.07.2013:
• Botoric Family (Serbia), author Srdjan Knezevic
• Album (Croatia), author Branko Istvancic
11.07.2013:
• There once was the land of hard-working people (Slovenia), author Ursa Menart
• Sonja (Serbia), author Dragana Kanjevac
