FEST 2004 - 32nd International Film Festival - Belgrade
The first FEST, under the slogan “A Brave New World” was opened on the 9th of January 1971 in Dom Sindikata, with the screening of Robert Altman’s Mash. Envisioned as the annual review of the best films of the season, the Belgrade International Film Festival - FEST – evolved to become one of the most important festivals on the continent and a pillar event of Belgrade's cultural life and an indispensable element in the coming of age of many generations of film amateurs.
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- DirectorGus Van SantStarsElias McConnellAlex FrostEric DeulenSeveral ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsCharlotte RamplingCharles DanceLudivine SagnierA British mystery author visits her publisher's home in the South of France, where her interaction with his unusual daughter sets off some touchy dynamics.
- DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsBill MurrayScarlett JohanssonGiovanni RibisiA faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsEwan McGregorAlbert FinneyBilly CrudupA frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenJason BiggsChristina RicciJerry Falk learns a lesson the hard way when he falls in love with the beautiful but flighty Amanda.
- DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakeshi KitanoTadanobu AsanoYui NatsukawaThe blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsRémy GirardDorothée BerrymanStéphane RousseauDuring his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsSean PennBenicio Del ToroNaomi WattsA freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con.
- DirectorNancy MeyersStarsJack NicholsonDiane KeatonKeanu ReevesA swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.
- DirectorRon HowardStarsTommy Lee JonesCate BlanchettEvan Rachel WoodIn 1885 New Mexico, a frontier medicine woman forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged father when her daughter is kidnapped by an Apache brujo.
- DirectorBent HamerStarsTomas NorströmJoachim CalmeyerBjørn FlobergA scientific observer's job of observing an old cantankerous single man's kitchen habits is complicated by his growing friendship with him.
- DirectorAndré TéchinéStarsEmmanuelle BéartGaspard UllielGrégoire Leprince-RinguetEmmanuelle Béart stars as a widowed schoolteacher who flees German-occupied Paris with her children. A teenage boy comes to their rescue by leading them into the forest -- their best shot at survival.
- DirectorGuy MaddinStarsIsabella RosselliniMark McKinneyMaria de MedeirosA musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.
- DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsKang-sheng LeeShiang-chyi ChenKiyonobu MitamuraOn a dark, wet night a historic and regal Chinese cinema sees its final film. Together with a small handful of souls they bid "Goodbye, Dragon Inn".
- DirectorCelina MurgaStarsCamila TokerIgnacio UslenghiJuan Cruz Díaz la BarbaTwenty-something Ana, now living in Buenos Aires, returns to her native city of Paraná. She meets old school mates, old friends, makes new ones, and starts to rethink her life, and perhaps change her future.
- DirectorBoris KhlebnikovAlexei PopogrebskyStarsGleb PuskepalisIgor ChernevichEvgeniy SytyyA widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister. After they are stopped by a train guard, they continue their travel on foot. The father battles against his alcohol addiction and the son is fascinated with the idea of flight. One rainy day an old man accepts them in his house in return for the repair of the roof. The father gives in to the alcohol offered by the old man, who in a drunken brawl accuses him of stealing money and shoots him. A young female village doctor takes care of him and a romantic relationship between the two ensues. The father feels reluctant to continue the journey. The son leaves alone and a truck driver gives him a ride to Koktebel. However, his aunt has left for the summer.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLeonor SilveiraFilipa de AlmeidaJohn MalkovichLisbon, Marseilles, Naples, Athens, Istanbul, Cairo, Aden and Bombay. Along with a university teacher and her little daughter, we embark on a long journey, experiencing different cultures and civilizations.
- DirectorAlain CorneauStarsSylvie TestudKaori TsujiTarô SuwaA Belgian woman looks back on her year at a Japanese corporation in Tokyo in 1990. She is Amélie, born in Japan, living there until age 5. After college graduation, she returns with a one-year contract as an interpreter. The vice president and section leader, both men, are boors, but her immediate supervisor, Ms. Mori, is beautiful and trustworthy. Amélie's downfall begins when she speaks perfect Japanese to clients. She compounds her failure by writing an excellent report for an enterprising colleague. The person she least expects to stab her in the back exposes her work. Thus begins her humiliations. What can become of her and of her relationship with Ms. Mori and with Japan?
- DirectorThomas RobsahmMartin AsphaugArild FröhlichStarsTrond HøvikEilif AasenDani Aso AhmadMost people live in China. But who lives in Norway?
- DirectorSiddiq BarmakStarsMarina GolbahariZubaida SaharKhwaja NaderAfter the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.
- DirectorMartín RejtmanStarsVicenticoValeria BertuccelliFabián ArenillasAlejandro, a cab driver, and his girlfriend Cecilia are in the midst of breaking up when they become adopted by a social group led by a bossy husband and wife team, Sergio and Susana.
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsNathalie BayeBenoît MagimelSuzanne FlonThree generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
- DirectorRodrigo BellottStarsAlexandra AponteRoberto UrbinaJorge Antonio SaavedraFive teenagers in the U.S. and Bolivia try to make sense of their sexuality and the complexity of their identity.
- DirectorJaime RosalesStarsAlex BrendemühlVicente RomeroAntònia MartínezThe gray and monotonous life of Abel takes place between a small family shop selling unisex clothes, his dates with his girlfriend Tere, his mother's house, a friend's kiosk and the neighborhood bars. Always the same problems, the same faces, the same conversations. However, under the appearance of calm and affable man, Abel hides a dark, violent and sickly personality.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsChris Thomas KingKeith B. BrownJames HughesThe dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of director Wim Wenders's favorite blues artists.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsKaterina DidaskalouSerge RenkoCyrielle ClairFrance, 1936-37. The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace the aging Général Dobrinsky soon. Fiodor's Greek wife, Arsinoé, paints and stays away from politics, befriending Communist neighbors. Her health declines; the attentive Fiodor arranges care and, against the backdrop of Stalin's Great Purge, considers his options. He plays a chess game in which love of country, love of Arsinoé, ideology, petty jealousies, and the machinations of power roil in matters of life and death.
- DirectorVinko BresanStarsLeon LucevAlma PricaMirjana KaranovicWhen three soldiers discover a man inside a house they are bombing, they kill him easily, but when a second witness is discovered, she proves to be a bigger challenge and sets in motion a riveting game of cat-and-mouse. Croatian with English subtitles. Winner: Peace Prize and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Berlin Int'l Film Festival. Official Selection: Karlovy Vary, Jerusalem and Seattle Int'l FFs.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsMichael PittLouis GarrelEva GreenA young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
- DirectorGoran RebicStarsSvetozar CvetkovicDenisa DérIoana FloraAs the ship Donau makes its final journey from Vienna to the Black Sea, a young man sworn to fulfill a dying woman's wish lures a reluctant captain into a new adventure.
- DirectorIsabel CoixetStarsSarah PolleyScott SpeedmanMark RuffaloA young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.
- DirectorJacques DoillonStarsPascal GreggoryNajat BenssallemIlham AbdelwahedA cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman's yearning for a nineteen year local girl. Raja is an orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush garden. Fred's attempt to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempt at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income, age and cultural sophistication.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenTéa LeoniBob DorianA director is forced to work with his ex-wife, who left him for the boss of the studio bankrolling his new film. But the night before the first day of shooting, he develops a case of psychosomatic blindness.
- DirectorDamien OdoulStarsLaetitia CastaBenoît MagimelMattéo TarditoThree scenes from the marriage of Lou and Jacques as they wander around France.
- DirectorSrdjan VuleticStarsHaris SijaricSvetozar CvetkovicKemal CeboIn a postwar Sarajevo, a young boy is trying to repay debt of his deceased father in a special Bosnian way.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsNicole KidmanPaul BettanyLauren BacallA woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsHossain EmadeddinKamyar SheisiAzita RayejiAn Iranian pizza delivery man sees the worst of corruption and social unbalance in his city and is driven to crime.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsMaya SansaLuigi Lo CascioRoberto HerlitzkaThe 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
- DirectorPatty JenkinsStarsCharlize TheronChristina RicciBruce DernBased on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.
- DirectorJim SheridanStarsPaddy ConsidineSamantha MortonDjimon HounsouA family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
- DirectorPeter WebberStarsScarlett JohanssonColin FirthTom WilkinsonA young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.
- DirectorÉmile GaudreaultStarsLuke KirbyPeter MillerGinette RenoThe son of Italian immigrants to Canada struggles to find the best way to reveal to his parents that he's gay.
- DirectorGary FlederStarsJohn CusackRachel WeiszGene HackmanA juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
- DirectorShari Springer BermanRobert PulciniStarsPaul GiamattiShari Springer BermanHarvey PekarAn original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
- DirectorCatherine HardwickeStarsEvan Rachel WoodHolly HunterNikki ReedA thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.
- DirectorAdela PeevaThe film is a funny, dramatic and tragicomic search for the truth about a Song. A Song that everybody in the Balkans claims it is theirs.A Song that appears as a love song, as a religious hymn and even as a song inciting for battle. An exciting journey around Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria. A film showing with a sense of humor some of the typical features of the character of the people on the Balkans, as for example their habit of appropriating all that is good and denying the others the right to possess the same qualities, the same songs, the same customs, the same temperament.
- DirectorNariman TurebaevStarsErjan BekmuratovOleg KerimovMira AbdulinaDry, subtle tragi-comedy about the friends Bek and Max who live together in a flat in the capital of Kazakhstan. They earn their living selling door-to-door and have an unusual view of the future and how to get on with women.
- DirectorCãlin Peter NetzerStarsDiana DumbravaHoratiu MalaeleSerban IonescuBased on the true story of an impoverished, unemployed mother of seven living under subhuman conditions in a cave-like basement of a block of flats in newly post-communist Romania. When her drunken husband loses his job and eventually goes away, her sad reality gets even bleaker as she struggles to support her children.
- DirectorBarbara AlbertStarsKathrin ResetaritsUrsula StraussGeorg FriedrichA young Austrian survives the crash of a commercial airliner. Six years later, she's a clerk, a mother, and happy. Then she dies in a car accident. Over the next year, her daughter goes through various medical blood tests, her husband is having an affair with her best friend, her sister trades sex for shelter, her brother is tiptoeing around a friendship with an emotionally-locked clerk whose mother is lonely, and an unpopular high-school student has bad skin. The daughter has her eye on a certain boy--the very one who was driving the car in the fatal crash. In happenstance are there patterns? In life is there meaning?
- DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsKim Ki-dukOh Yeong-suJong-ho KimA boy is raised by a Buddhist monk in an isolated floating temple where the years pass like the seasons.
- DirectorBenjamin GeißlerWhen Ukraine was occupied by the Nazis, the Jewish painter Bruno Schulz decorated a villa with frescoes
- DirectorGoran RadovanovicCasting is a documentary about people forced to take desperate measures-even compromise their moral standards-to make money in the economically deprived climate of Eastern Europe. Often not knowing what they are getting themselves into, these men and women are herded into casting calls, asked to strip to their underwear, and answer personal questions in front of a camera.
- DirectorJoakim DemmerThousands of migrants who, by dint of rubber boats, illegally cross the straits between Morocco and Spain, change a landscape and its inhabitants.
- DirectorPeter DelpeutMart DominicusStarsTaylor FogartyHartmut BitomskyWilliam A. Fraker2003 marks the hundredth anniversary of the making of The Great Train Robbery, the very first western film. Dutch film makers Peter Delpeut and Mart Dominicus were inspired by this fact to make a nostalgic road movie in search of the remains of this once so powerful film genre. In Go West, Young Man! Delpeut and Dominicus undertake a cinematographic road journey to the icons of the western. What they find are the leftovers of a fading tradition. They visit old paintless film sets and meet craftsmen who live in the knowledge that their skills (wrangling, horse falls) will disappear in the years to come. They call upon famous locations in which they still sense the dramatic force that shaped the classics of the genre: the Grand Tetons which were the awesome backdrop for SHANE and of course Monument Valley, home of many John Ford westerns. A lively and often funny homage to a great film genre that inevitably ends as a bittersweet requiem.
- DirectorAndrew JareckiStarsArnold FriedmanJesse FriedmanDavid FriedmanDocumentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
- DirectorIgor MirkovicStarsDavorin BogovicVladimir DivljanSrdjan 'Gile' GojkovicThrough Zagreb, Ljubljana, Vienna, Belgrade, Budapest, Paris, Utrecht and New York, the author is in pursuit of the heroes of his youth, trying to tell to his own self the story about the expansion of punk-rock and the fall of socialism. With plenty of music and shots from the times of the new wave, The Lucky Child is a little monument to the generation that was growing up with a strong belief that rock'n'roll is more important than life.
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyThe director films the street where he lives in St. Petersburg, for a whole year, documenting the changes caused by the celebration of its 300th anniversary.
- DirectorAlireza AminiStarsMadjid BahramiMohsen TanabandehTwo men ward off loneliness and boredom while guarding a mine in rural Iran.
- DirectorMatthew BarneyStarsRichard SerraMatthew BarneyAimee MullinsThe third film of a five-part art-installation epic -- it's part-zombie movie, part-gangster film.
- DirectorMichelangelo FrammartinoStarsAngelo FrammartinoGabriella MaioloAn elderly farmer befriends a woman whose family believe is possessed.
- DirectorTheo van GoghStarsKatja SchuurmanPierre BokmaTheo MaassenRenowned journalist Pierre has to interview the most famous Dutch actress, Katja Schuurman, against his wishes.
- DirectorEdmond BudinaStarsBujar AsqeriuSuela BakoFlavio BucciAlbania. Under the Communist Regime Niko, a professor and communist party leader is dreaming he is partying on Goni's fishing boat. Goni loves nothing more than setting fire to things when he's happy and this time it's the boat. He is arrested and condemned to death. Niko, his lifelong friend, intervenes and saves him. They friendship becomes even stronger. Albania after the fall of Communism Niko is in his fifties. He is unemployed and lives off the money his son, Mikel sends him from Italy. The two men haven't spoken for years. Niko receives a letter from Mikel but before he can open the envelope, a gust of wind blows it out of his hand. Niko's daughter is kidnapped with the intent of putting her onto the streets, but as soon as the gang finds out she is Mikel's sister, they let her go. How did Mikel suddenly become so powerful? Niko decides to see for himself. In order to drum up the money for the journey to Italy he sells bananas on street corners but is forced to stop by the local criminal gang. Niko discovers that their boss is none other than his old friend Goni. Niko refuses Goni's help and goes to Italy. Italy. Niko has arrived in Turin where he meets Roberto, Mikel's roommate. Roberto avoids answering Niko's questions about his son. One evening two mysterious men come to take Niko to meet his notorious son.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsEngin AlkanTaner BirselMurat GaribagaogluFour 40 something friends are haunted by the violent past of a divided Cyprus. Temel wants desperately to speak about the crimes of vengeance he committed as a teenager.
- DirectorIvaylo HristovLyudmil TodorovStarsDeyan DonkovValeri YordanovIvan RadoevThree friends, Maro, Shpera and Yuri are unemployed and hardly make ends meet. They have complicated and hysterical relationships with the people closest to them. They seem to have emigrated from their families and their country. Provoked by a mysterious telephone call, they set out on a journey, filled with the hope to change their lives.
- DirectorSiegfriedStarsRoschdy ZemIvry GitlisEmma SuárezSansa is a young man. The camera pursues him, takes a peep at him, tries to catch his face, his look, his cap. The camera gets out of breath running after the man, becoming an observer, a friend into his endless trip between the stations of Paris, the streets of Spain and Portugal, Italy and Hungary, Burkina Faso and Egypt, India, the illuminated roads and boards and lounges of Japan. Sansa is a free-minded and impulsive. He is a man who will accost people on the street - women - to be courted, next minute - to be forgotten. He will get into trouble, but behind the next corner he will run away. May be the next train will take him to the end of his adventure ...
- DirectorAleksey German Jr.StarsPavel RomanovPyotr MerkurevAleksey DevotchenkoIn early winter of 1944, as the Nazi army flees the Soviet advance, two Germans, a doctor and a postmaster, wander as refugees in inhospitable territory, surrounded by the enemy, including rampaging partisans.
- DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsYihong DuanYan ShuZhi-Liang WangThe young adult life of Hong Yunsheng, nicknamed Little Brother, is seen as somewhat of a failure by those that know him. A Chinese national, he stowed away on a boat to the United States, where he worked as a dishwasher in the restaurant of a family from his hometown back in Fujian province. After two years in the States and after fathering an illegitimate child there named Fusheng, the child's mother Xuhui who is the restaurateur's daughter, he was deported back to China. Since, he has been floundering in life, which has caused a rift between himself and his older brother, who, with his wife, operate a street front diner and can't have children of their own. Little Brother relies on his new girlfriend, a woman he barely knows named Wu Ruifang who is a performer in a touring opera troupe, for emotional support. Despite Little Brother being the local poster boy for not stowing away, his friend named Monkey tried to do the same, but died on the voyage over due to exposure to toxic chemicals on board the ship. Meanwhile, the restaurateur's family, including now five year old Fusheng, has returned to their Chinese hometown for a visit. They refuse to let Little Brother see his son, Little Brother who wants to be a father to the boy. This visit begins the tug-of-war not only between Little Brother and Xuhui's respective families, but between paternalistic Chinese society and American law.
- DirectorKang-sheng LeeStarsYi-ching LuChieh ChangMiao TienA grandmother is looking for her grandson, a teenager for his grandfather.