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Drawing Lots world premiere.
Rotterdam IFFR
CINEUROPA
Review by Vladan Petkovic
Drawing Lots
Love and crime and secrets and dreams intertwine in this ensemble tale that wends its seductive way through a tight-knit community in a Georgian seaside town. Nothing is as it seems in the modulating rhythms of fate, the shifting loyalties and the ultimate reality that “neighborhood” sometimes really means “family”.
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Keep Smiling, Mom!
Three estranged sisters travel through the Baltics to fulfil their mother’s last wish to be buried in Latvia. But how can they get her there? Broke, heartbroken and desperate, the sisters fight old fights, commit new crimes, and confront their own demons, all with their dead mother looking down on them from the roof of their van.
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The Blind Hitman
A blind hitman. A young girl. A moment of weakness. It’s either a new dawn or the end of it all.
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Upurga
An uptight rafting instructor loses his clients to the dank waters and dark forests of a river valley pregnant with the paranormal. Bound by the roots of their pagan past and submerged in unconscious passions: do they want to be saved? Read more
Another Coin For The Merry-Go-Round
ANNA is a young woman who loves music, drugs and her friends. She’s struggling against the need of becoming a grown-up and tries everything to avoid reality – until a sudden accident disturbs her familiar routine. Read more
Level Up Your Life
The life of Evelyn Moeller could actually be quite nice, if it weren’t for her boss who enjoys making her everyday work a living hell. But murder isn’t a solution – at least not a very good one… Read moreThe Last Days Of Gilda
Gilda loves cooking, men and life. But for her narrow-minded, religious neighbours this self-confident, independent woman who butchers pigs in her garden and has more than one lover, is increasingly becoming a thorn in the flesh. Read more
Emma In Love
Passionate Emma and impulsive but introverted Tomáš fall in love. They are like two missing puzzle pieces coming together. But Emma’s pornographic past inevitably catches up with them. Read more
Fox In A Hole
When Fuchs starts his new job as a teacher in a prison school, replacing the old and unconventional teacher Berger against her will, he is forced to confront his biggest fear, triggered by the mysterious, withdrawn inmate Samira. Read more
My Favorite War
This is the personal story of the director, Ilze, growing up in Cold-War Latvia, USSR. It’s a coming of age story, a personal escape route from the mighty authoritarian regime’s brainwashing. An antiwar film, emphasizing the importance of an individual’s freedom being a democratic society’s fundamental right. Read more
Captives
An incredible but true story from Academy Award winning director Kristóf Deák.In 1951 Budapest secret police barges into the life of an ordinary family, locking them up in their own home for days – along with all their visitors. Read more
Chola The Bear
Apocalypse, Please!
The Electrifiers
The Electrifiers is a coming of age comedy centred on a 60-year-old teenager. Mickey Tevel, the Electrifiers’ lead singer, keeps dreaming and believing he could take America by storm with his music. But when the geographical distance between Mickey and his fantasy is diminished, the distance between reality and dream becomes ever so clear, and forces Mickey to finally grow up.
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The Sign Painter
The Sign Painter is a tragicomedy about a young Latvian man (ANSIS) with simple dreams: to marry the free-spirited and beautiful daughter (ZISLA) of a local Jewish merchant and to pursue a career as an artist whilst supporting himself as a sign painter. But his dreams are repeatedly swept away in the tumultuous tides of serial totalitarian occupation of his home during the WWII era. Read More
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EFM
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at GB Booth #193
Festivals
2023
Drawing Lots
2022
Another Coin For The Merry-Go-Round
KINO – Mostra de Cinema de Expressão Alemã
2021
Another Coin For The Merry-Go-Round
55. Internationale Hofer Filmtage
Upurga
November 2021 @POFF, Black Nights Film Festival, Baltic competition
The Last Days of Gilda
Zurich Film Festival
September 23 – October 03, 2021
Festival FILMAR en América Latina
November 19-28, 2021
Geneva International Film Festival
November 05-14, 2021
2021 Rooftop Films Summer Series
September 2021
World Cinema Amsterdam
August 18-28, 2021
Captives
Atlantida Mallorca Film Fest
July 26 – August 01, 2021
Fox In A Hole
European Film Week – Europa 61, Portugal
September 15-27, 2021
Europe On Screen, Indonesia
September 15-27, 2021
New Austrian Cinema in Russia
September 08-12, 2021
Austrian Film Week 2021, Ukraine
July 15-21, 2021
Pula Film Festival
July 17 – 25, 2021
28th Art Film Fest Košice
June 23 – 27, 2021
The Sign Painter
Festival de Cinema Jueu de Barcelona
October 06-21, 2021
Jüdisches Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg
August 12-22, 2021
Jewish International Film Festival (JIFF) 2021 – Australia
17 February — 24 March, 2021
2020
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FESTIVAL NUOVO CINEMA EUROPA
Dec 12-18
The Sign Painter
PÖFF 13.-29.11.2020 in competition / Estonia
Gershman Philadelphia Jewish FF 7.-21.11.2020 / USA
The Revenge of the Necromancer
Festival Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre 3.-13.12.2020 / Argentina
Eaten by Lions
Hofer Filmtage 20.-25. 10.2020 / Germany
The Accidental Rebel
Catalina Film Festival Official Selection
AWARD OF EXCELENCE – INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
BEST DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM – Randa Chahoud
Film Festival Salento
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January 2020
Various Places / Czech Republic