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Théâtre Le Palace
8, Rue du Faubourg Montmartre, 75009 Paris
(M. Grands Boulevards)

Program Schedule:

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Mercredi 1er juin 2016 :
11h00 Film : Bulgarie - "The Woman of My Life", Réalisateur : Antoniy Donchev
13h00 Film : Croatie - "All the best", Réalisateur : Snjezana Tribuson
15h00 Film : Roumanie - "Billion Star Hotel", Réalisateur : Alecs Nastoiu
19h30 Ouverture de l'exposition de Vladimir Georgievski - "Don Quichotte Balkanique"
20h00 Cérémonie d'ouverture du festival
20h30 Concert : Alina Baba
22h00 Film : Film des étudiants de l'Université des arts audovisuels de Skopje

Jeudi 2 juin 2016 :
11h00 Film : Bosnie Herzégovine - "Our everyday life", Réalisateur : Ines Tanovic
13h00 Film : Turquie - "Dolanma", Réalisateur : Mr. Tunç Davut
15h00 Film : Kosovo - "Father", Réalisateur : Visar Morina
17h00 Film : Film des étudiants de l'Université des arts audovisuels de Skopje
20h30 Film : Tribute Velko Bulaic - "The Man to Destroy"
22h00 Film : Albanie - "Bota", Réalisateur : Iris Elezi & Thomas Logoreci

Vendredi 3 juin 2016 :
11h00 Film : Grèce - “Silent”, Réalisateur : Yorgos Gkikapeppas 
13h00 Film : Macédoine - "3 days in September", Réalisateur : Darijan Pejovski
15h00 Film : Serbie - "Legacy", Réalisateur : Nemanja Cipranic
20h30 Concert : Vlashent Sata
22h00 Film : Macédoine - "3 days in September", Réalisateur : Darijan Pejovski

Samedi 4 juin 2016 :
10h00 Film : Roumanie - "Billion Star Hotel", Réalisateur : Alecs Nastoiu
12h00 Film : Serbie - "Legacy", Réalisateur : Nemanja Cipranic
14h00 Film : Bulgarie - "The Woman of My Life", Réalisateur : Antoniy Donchev
18h00 Film : Albanie - "Bota", Réalisateur : Iris Elezi & Thomas Logoreci
20h30 Concert : Elina Duni
22h00 Film : Kosovo - "Father", Réalisateur : Visar Morina

Dimanche 5 juin 2016 :
10h00 Film : Croatie - "All the best", Réalisateur : Snjezana Tribuson
12h00 Film : Bosnie Herzégovine - "Our everyday life", Réalisateur : Ines Tanovic
14h00 Film : Turquie - "Dolanma", Réalisateur : Mr. Tunç Davut
16h00 Film : Grèce - “Silent”, Réalisateur : Yorgos Gkikapeppas 
20h00 Cérémonie de clôture du festival
20h30 Concert: Esma Redzepova

List of selected films:

“3 Days in September”, Director: Darijan Pejovski, Macedonia, 90 min.

Two completely different women – a prostitute and an avenger, are forced by destiny to help each other in clearing their pasts. Marika kills a man in self-defense. She runs off to a train where she meets Jana - a quiet and shy woman in her late 30s. Jana travels to her cottage, deep in the mountains. That’s a chance for Marika to take a refuge. The days go by in quiet melancholy, and the suspicion between the two women as to their true intentions gets stronger. “Three Days in September” is a chamber, character driven thriller that deals with the consequences of sexual abuse in our society. It is most of all a character study where the two women retrieve, through their mutual relationship, step by step, their secrets and traumas.

“All the best”, Director: Snjezana Tribuson, Croatia, 102 min.

Pastry-shop worker Verica, opera singer Brankica and Martin (Spaniard) are the protagonists of this film-story about loneliness and search for love. Besides the three of them, we will also get to know two nurses who think a lot about men, one farmer with rather unusual farming talents, a gravely ill woman of an unusual sexual orientation, a handyman who adores all „pretty women“, and we will watch how an accidental series of events entwines their destinies and makes unsolvable situations solvable. It is rather unlikely that several cockroaches, beet root soup and an opera aria can play an important role in all that, but in this story they do.

"Bota", Director: Iris Elezi, Thomas Logoreci, Albania, 107 min.

Albania, present day. At the edge of a haunted swamp, Juli, Nora and Ben work together in an isolated village where their families were exiled during their country’s intense communist rule. Under the disapproving eyes of Juli, Ben juggles an affair with Nora while dreaming of expanding his café into the Balkan big time. Their quiet world ceases to exist when a highway crew begins to widen the road nearby. Juli falls for engineer Mili but worries about her ailing and confused grandmother, Noje. As the new road approaches, the village inhabitants have one last glorious night of fireworks and celebration. But when the dawn arrives, Juli, Ben and Nora must face a shared secret from their traumatic past.

“Legacy”, Director: Nemanja Cipranic, Serbia, 93 min

This is the story about Todor, hard working and ambitious student. He lives with his mother in very modest life. But, in a strange way, seemingly by accident, Višnja appears, desperate, pregnant girl who needs help and protection. Their relationship quickly turns into love, which is further complicated when Todor decide to establish a relationship with his father, a successful business man who has left them when Todor was a child. But who is Višnja, and who the bad guys are? Who are the heroes and whether there are any…

“Billion Star Hotel”, Director: Alecs Nastoiu, Romania, 92 min.

A little homeless boy, learns how things are going in real life, from his mentor, Papa Rudi. Every day, we’re faced with the following exercise: to give the world around us a certain cue. To smile, to take everything as a joke, to laugh out loud, or to allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by reality. To be painfully aware of the distance between us and our dreams, of the obstacles, and the fact that we are alone all the time. Some choose to escape, to build their own world, with it’s own rules, with the memories of fairytales and dreams that really come to be. A world where three friends are brought together by the same destination. Or maybe, it all comes down to daydreaming. And feeling the empty spaces with music. It all depends on how you choose to see things. In black, in white, or in sync with the beat. Billion Star Hotel, for each viewer, a different story.

“Our everyday life”, Director: Ines Tanovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Family Susic lives everyday Bosnian story. Father Muhamed (63) is employed in a reputable company; mother Marija (60) is retired. Son Sasa (35), who spent the war in Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, lives with his parents, while their daughter Senada (40) lives in Slovenia. Their life begins to fall apart because of father's dissatisfaction after his company is sold on the stock exchange, Sasa's negligent attitude towards work and family, Marija's breast cancer diagnose. When problems begin to line up Muhamed and Sasa realize that actually only family is important, that it is man's last oasis.

“Father”, Director: Visar Morina, Kosovo, 104 min.

Ten-year-old Nori (Val Maloku) and his father Gezim (Astrit Kabashi) roam the streets of Kosovo selling cigarettes and barely earning a living. Only a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gezim is lured west to Germany, leaving his son behind in search of a new life. Feeling deserted and desperate to claim some sense of stability, Nori embarks on a dangerous journey to Germany in search of his father. His tenacity, resilience, and sheer grit must be enough to guide him.

“Silent”, Director: Yorgos Gkikapeppas, Greece, 92 min.

Among the constantly talking animals of a herd, the basic rule of normality is the theater of conversation. When a young animal loses its voice and goes into hiding, the talking herd can’t accept its weakness and follows the rule, speaking to it using monologues. The young animal remains silent and the talking herd stands confused and unable to decide whether it’s really sick or just pretending. But as the silent, isolated animal struggles to get its voice back, the talking animals surround its cage and the most distrustful of them attacks.

“Entanglement”, Director: Mr. Tunç Davut, Turkey,

As woodsmen, brothers KEMAL and CEMAL struggle with an uncertain future, living in a house inherited by their father, on the outskirts of a village. Kemal has always been a father to his brother. NALÂN, arrives one day with Kemal, and adopts the house as her own. Her presence soothes Cemal, who's shaken by his mother’s death.

“The Woman of My Life”, Director: Antoniy Donchev, Bulgaria, 103 min.

Six year old Azad (a Kurd from Iraq) was engaged to his cousin Vian but after that the two kids were separated due to the political situation. At 19, Azad accidentally witnessed the murder of Vian’s father and had to leave the country. On board the ship to Europe he met a beautiful girl and fell in love with her without recognizing that she was his fiancée Vian. Vian, on her part, did not reveal herself to him because she thought he had been involved in the murder of her father and she tried to suppress her feelings towards Azad. She went to Germany; he had to remain in Bulgaria due to a false ID. Azad did enormous efforts to find Vian and he finally succeeded. This time she revealed herself to him because her love proved to be stronger than her doubts. Unfortunately Vian was already involved in a deadly game being obsessed with the aim to take revenge for her father. Azad made everything to stop and save her even if he would never see her again. Is love going to prevail once again over terror?

“Response”, Director: Sara Aleksandrovska, Macedonia, 7 min.

“Theosis”, Directors: S. Podlesanov & K. Karakash, Macedonia, 75 min.

Theosis is in the form of triptych composed of Catharsis, Theoria and Deification. The movie follows the stories of characters who while surviving in their lives, they enliven their lost spirituality and of those around them.