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OKO HITS
Blaga’s Lessons / Уроците на Блага, 2023, - Fiction
Director: Stephan Komandarev
Country: Bulgaria, Germany
Blaga is a seventy-year-old recently widowed former teacher and a woman of firm morals. When telephone scammers con her out of the money that she had saved for her husband’s grave, her moral compass slowly begins to lose its bearings…
Dyad / Диада, 2023, - Fiction
Director: Yana Titova
Country: Bulgaria
Smart, angry, self-reliant Dida will stop at nothing to achieve a single tangible goal – to buy a plane ticket so she can join her estranged mother in the United States.
Four Daughters / Les filles d'Olfa, 2023, - Non-Fiction
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Country: France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia
The film tells the story of the family of Olfa Hamrouni, a Tunisian woman who raised four daughters. Two of the girls left home and joined the fanatical Islamist movement "ISIS" in Libya in 2015. The heroine, Olfa, blames the government for allowing jihadist preachers to spread their ideas on the one hand, and on the other hand, blames her own harsh and often cruel, suffocating love. At the same time, the director shows the painful dynamics in the relationship of this divided family.
Heights / Възвишение, 2017, - Fiction
Director: Viktor Bozhinov
Country: Bulgaria, North Macedonia
In 1872, Dimitar Obshti and his companions robbed an Ottoman postal convoy in the Arabakonak pass. Among them were Gicho and Asencho - half-revolutionaries, half-robbers, who were tasked to track down and personally deliver a letter to Vasil Levski. The search for the Apostle turns into a tragicomic adventure full of intrigue, meanness and betrayals. Gradually, Gicho and Asencho's revolutionary enthusiasm gives way to disappointment and bitterness, but both are determined to see their mission through.
Porcelain War, 2024, - Non-Fiction
Director: Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev
Country: USA, Ukraine, Australia
Amidst the chaos and destruction of the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine, three artists defiantly find inspiration and beauty as they defend their culture and their country. In a war waged by professional soldiers against ordinary civilians, Slava Leontyev, Anya Stasenko, and Andrey Stefanov choose to stay behind, armed with their art, their cameras, and, for the first time in their lives, their guns.
La Palisiada / Ля Палісіада, 2023, - Fiction
Director: Philip Sotnychenko
Country: Ukraine
Ukraine, 1996. 5 months before the moratorium on capital punishment, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague. Long time ago, both of them were in love with the widow of the deceased. Immersed in the complicated case and long forgotten memories, they create a future where their children have to live, inheriting unrealized aspirations of their parents.
Zinema, 2024, - Non-Fiction
Director: Kornii Hrytsiuk
Country: Ukraine, Luxembourg
Feature documentary which investigates propaganda, xenophobia and chauvinism in russian cinema from the 1990s to today.
Us, our pets and the war, 2024, - Non-Fiction
Director: Anton Ptushkin
Country: Canada, Ukraine
Amid violence and war, Ukrainian citizens are coming together to rescue animals that have been left behind by those forced to flee. From cats and dogs in abandoned buildings to lions and tigers in the nation’s zoos, extraordinary rescue efforts are underway to bring them to safety. The film is a tribute to the very best of the human spirit despite the horrors of war.
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