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Citizens of Rijeka, which Italians call Fiume, retell, reconstruct, and reinterpret the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in 1919 by the Italian poet, a dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D'Annunzio.

After hitting a dog with his car, Stefan, guilt-ridden, decides to bring it with him to the hometown lake, where he is headed in order to complete the film about his mother who has recently passed away.

Follows patients and caregivers at a psychiatric centre with a unique floating structure located in the middle of the Seine river in central Paris.

Two women separated by political revolutions find connection through letters, defying distance and turmoil.

Explores the never-before-seen footage of Tito's cameraman documenting his trips to Africa and Asia to promote a third way amidst the Cold War.

Documentarian Mila Turajlic returns to the Festival with the story of Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito's favourite cameraman, the Algerian War for Independence, and an untold chapter in the history of anti-colonial cinema.

The Blockade is a unique view from within on the most massive, longest, and politically most significant student protest in the country, since 1971, that started in April of 2009 at the Faculty of humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. The struggle against the commercialization of education and the blockade of teaching classes lasted for 34 days. The rebellion spread onto more than 20 faculties across the country and the students became an active and relevant political subject. The director followed everything: from the exhilarating preparation meetings and blocking of classes to the first signs of exhaustion, through personal situations and discussions late at night, from the initial support of most faculty members to the moment they turned their back to the movement and the attempt to reach the missing minister of education. This film shows that the blockade was not just physical and that it has a much broader meaning.

On the outskirts of Budapest, in the heart of the woods, hides a ramshackle little hut. Inside, two social outcasts have formed the unlikeliest of bonds: Fanni, a 19 year-old transgender teenager, and Laci, a 60 year-old homeless man. Together, they form a cantankerous, convivial, makeshift family life, supporting each other as father and daughter through hardship and change. Life is tough, but it is theirs. Set on the margins of Hungarian society, this is a film about perseverance, finding home, and the triumph of acceptance.

Documentary about free-diver Goran Colak and his boundary-pushing feats of survival without oxygen.

"Srbenka" is a film about peer violence toward children of different nationality in Croatia. It examines how the generation born after the war copes with the dark shadows of history.

In Daone, a small mountain village in the North of Italy, a group of grannies in their seventies are planning a special trip. Almost none of them have ever been at the sea, and they want to see it for the first time. But they need the money to fund their journey. After some failed attempts, they decide to face their shyness, and to model for a calendar. When also this action seems to be useless, their last idea will make them pretty famous. The Sea, and their common dream, are waiting for them.

Just married Croatian-Roma couple, Tea and Mirsad, are trying to live together, suspended between expectations from families and communities in culturally irreconcilable backgrounds that do not accept diversities.

A love story Balkan style.

A portrait of a former industrial city through a river that passes through its center. Sometimes river reveals the remains of past that left traces in the water. What will remain behind us?

"Learning to Walk 2" takes us through the creative and sociopolitical era of the great artist, a witness to the challenging social turmoil through which the author became his own main character.

A village in the outback of Dalmatia, autumn of 1991. The war is raging nearby. 10-year-old Mia and 12-year-old Lorena are having a big day: their father, Mirko, is going to be released from the camp where he spent the last three months as a prisoner of war.

There are eight underaged girls living together in the last house of a small village in Slavonia, trying to change their lives around with some help from the caretakers. The girls are growing up together, they take care of the household and manage the estate. Every week they get a visit from a professional drummer Branko Trajkov Trak who teaches them the art of drumming. The experience is still very hard for 14-year-old Ivana, who is struggling to adapt to the new environment. She has yet to learn to accept the past for what it was and to live for the future.

The tavern "Jablan" existed in the 1980s and was located in a small village, Jugovo Polje, in Croatia, SFRY. "Jablan" was a symbol of "brotherhood and equality" for its owners, guests, musicians, and waiters. It was a place where people of different generations and education gathered - from workers and peasants to doctors, even music and sports stars of the '80s, it was a place where nationality and religious affiliation played no role. Nevertheless, the first shooting between Serbs and Croats took place in "Jablan", which heralded the war in Croatia and ended "Jablan's carefree days". The film protagonists reconstruct the events, from the day the tavern was created, to its destruction, witnessing how a place of love and joy became an object of hatred and destruction within a few months.

A documentary essay about the relationships among Mediterranean men and their games. The film takes the form of a travelogue across Croatia, Italy, Slovenia and Turkey, and examines men, young and old, who come together like their ancestors did - to play games. During filming, however, the director suddenly faces a serious creative crisis and turns the camera on himself, turning the film into a playful homage to absurdity.

A poetic documentary about the lost film culture in the small villages on the Croatian islands during the second half of the last century.

Babajanja is a short documentary that borrows horror elements and includes them in the investigation of director Ante Zlatko Stolica's childhood fear. Stolica's dreams are being haunted by 'Janja', an allusion to the Slavic fairy tale character of Baba Yaga. Stolica traces his fears by digging through his memory.

Conjuring reality and wonder, "Speak so I Can See You" takes us to a seemingly different era, by exploring the world of Radio Belgrade. One of Europe's oldest radio stations and a true institution of the city, the station still broadcasts original programming and helps keep history, culture and critical thought, as well as everrelevant questions about ourselves and the world, from slipping out of memory and mind. Set at the intersection of an observational documentary and a unique sensory experience, the film conjures everyday scenes at the station and immersing interludes exploring the relationship between sound and the space it inhabits. Through a synesthetic blend of sounds, words, notes, echoes and light, we are taken into a unique cinematic soundscape that doubles as a love letter to radiophonic art and its disarming insight into what makes us remember, understand, think, discover, and feel.

Music documentary based on a multihyphenate artist with severe brain damage called intellect.

An intimate conversation between a 6 year old teacher and her mother.