19:00, 2. 11. 2014.

Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, SAD/Pakistan, 2012.

Duration: 40 min

In Pakistan every year, there  is hundreds of people attacked with acid. Most of the victims are women, which are physically branded as well as emotinal. Saving face is following two surviving victims, Zaika and Rukhsana, while they are fighting for justice and trying to return to their lives. With astounding results, with help of doctor Mohammad Jawad, a surgeon from london, with numerous people they are rising against those horrendous crimes.

19:15, 3. 11. 2014.

Duration: 12 min

Liran Kapel, Yael Dekel, Israel, 2012.

Nyosha is a ten year old girl. In cruel reality of unmerciful war, she dreams about buying shoes. nyosha believes that shoes will keep you alive. Animation technuiqes talk Nyoshas story combining dreams and reality.

18:00, 2. 11. 2014.

Maja Šubarić Mahmuljin, Slovenija, 2013.

Trajanje: 8 min

Ljubljana, present. Blaž Kužnik wakes up early in the morning and gets ready to go to work at the restaurant “Druga violina”. As he gets out of the car we can see that Blaž has Down Syndrome and has difficulties walking. In his work clothes, Blaž comes to serve guests and we follow him in his shift working from morning until late afternoon with a smile on his face. His best friend Peter has health problems too, but he is also very serious and enthusiastic about his job. Blaž talks about his life, work, friends, hobbies, desires and achievements.

AWARDS
Best short film at Manhattan International Film Festival 2014

In a city of disconcerting nature, homeless animals are looking for shelter for the night. They take refuge in Bear’s house, creating an ephemeral community that will dissolve with the first sun rays. A tale of exclusion as recounted by intertwined destinies out of sync.

“The Lady in Number 6″ is one of the most inspirational stories ever told. 109-year-old, Alice Herz Sommer, the world’s oldest pianist and oldest holocaust survivor, shares her views on how to live a long happy life. She discusses the vital importance of music, laughter and having an optimistic outlook on life. This powerfully inspirational video tells her amazing story of survival and how she managed to use her time in a Nazi concentration camp to empower herself and others with music.

Film was made on International Talent Workshop of Festival of Tolerance, Hrvatska, 2014.
Trajanje: 9 min

The drama entitled “Games” takes place during the World War II in Zagreb and illustrates the danger of then prominent propaganda. Klara, aged ten, despite her mother’s orders, exits the apartment wanting to play with other kids.

The film follows Nives Jagodić in her research about her grandfather Dr. Joza Jagodić, doctor in Bjelovar’s general hospital, who posthumously got the acknowledgement “Righteous among the Nations”. Through her travels and conversation with the man whose life was saved by Dr. Joza Jagodić, we will find how much he risked throughout the whole WW2 in order to save civilians from certain death. His example will show us what makes people do something noble and righteous and even risk their own lives.

Milan Cieslar, Slovačka, 2013.
Duration: 126 min

Arnost Lustig was one of the most eminent wold autors of our time and was nominated for Pulitzers award. Lustigs novel “Girl from Antwerpen” on which the movie Colette was is based, shows authors personal experiences from concentration camps and his memories of escape attempts from Auschwitz. This is a story about the strenght of love in extreme situations, story of young lovers and their strong resolve to escape from miserable life and their courage to face death.

10:00, 3. 11. 2014.

Mark Herman, UK/SAD, 2008.

Trajanje: 94 min

Boy in striped pajamas is a movie in World War II theater told from perspective of eight year old boy Bruno. Bruno is a son of a concentration camp commander and his friendship with jewish boy on the other side of the camps fence will have unexpected consequences. The movie is based on a book sold in more than six million copies.

20:00, 2.11.2014.

Guy Nattiv, Erez Tadmor, Izrael, 2014.

Trajanje: 110 minuta

On the way for Greece 78 year old Greek Avraham, holocaust survivor and his astranged hasidian son. In the country he fled from once, Avraham confronts the past, finds companionship in pretty greek prostitute and finds a man who saved his life more than 50 years ago. In the meantime, his son Yehuda is fighting for his fathers acceptance.