Screen: Southeast Europe

The crime against a young nun reveals the fatalism, faith and superstition that paralyzes the Romanian province.

Olga, who is grieving for her mother and also anorexic, is sent to a psychiatrist who is dealing with her own losses in an unusual way.

A gripping film by Ukraine's Maryna Er Gorbach about the tragic events of the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014.

A photojournalist is threatened by right-wing extremist groups in Belgrade and flees to Germany with her daughter.

The threat of being outed causes an explosion of violence: Cristi, a gay Romanian policeman lives under the threat of being outed against his will.

After a stroke of fate, a manager escapes his former live to a magical place, rich in ancient customs, at the Danube delta.

This thought-provoking documentary sheds light on the challenges faced by worker-owned factories in a capitalist, post-socialist, economy.

In the basement of the never completed Museum of the Revolution, Belgrade dwell the outcasts of a society that is being transformed by capitalism.

The powerful and inspiring story of a transgender teenager and his family in Orbán's Hungary.

After winning a highly charged case, a lawyer is found seriously injured on the side of the road.

Lighthearted comedy explores the disillusionment, shame and disconnect between well-educated, yet underemployed Millennials, and their fed-up parents.

When two estranged half-sisters are forced to move in together, they must confront their shared past and decades of pent-up resentment.

In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, a family lives in perfect harmony with nature for 20 years until being chased out.

Childhood soul mates Leni and Lazar are reunited after being separated for years. They spontaneously decide to take a bike trip across northern Serbia

Before the invasion of 2022 in the occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk, two people challenge the new regime.

To escape all her obligations after finishing college, Aleksi moves back in with her parents at their winery and dives into dating life and parties.

A sheltered teenager rebels against the strict rules, religious beliefs, and conniving classmates at his Catholic boarding school.

Rumen, a 13-year-old boy, is bullied by his classmates who taunt him and call him 'Pig'. Full of pent-up rage, he strikes back.

A film about victory and defeat, on the chessboard and in life, and a cinematographic reflection on the struggle for female self-determination.

We accompany a Roma family in Macedonia in their laborious everyday life, marked by deprivation, humiliation and racism.

A tourist discovers the silent legacy of wartime atrocities when she arrives in a seemingly idyllic little town on the border of Bosnia and Serbia.

On the picturesque shores of Lake Prespa, in the tri-border area of Albania, northern Macedonia and Greece, drug smugglers fight for supremacy.

To avoid homelessness, a mother resorts to extreme measures in this accomplished and touching and subtle drama.

The black-humored comedy about an inept theater troupe united only by their love of Westerns was Croatia's Oscar contender.

During the melon harvest in the rolling green hills of Moldova, 15-year-old Anishoara experiences the overwhelming feeling of first love.

After playing a sexually charged game with her best friend, below the cliffs of Dubrovnik, a teenage girl doesn't return home.

Her work at the mall gives Panayiota a bit of freedom, but the thread of layoffs is looming on the horizon.

Leonidas, the policeman on a small Aegean island, is bored to death. But one morning an island inhabitant is found dead in a well and Leonidas smells a ...

Top-class arthouse film from Bulgaria. An unsparing document about despair and guilt - visually stunning and impressive.

Nori lives alone with his father in Kosovo and sells cigarettes on the street. After an accident he wakes up alone in the hospital.

When the elderly and lonely Hanna causes an accident in Germany in which a young man from Kosovo dies, she tries to track down his family.

This black comedy tells the story of 35-year-old teacher and unsuccessful writer Ovidiu, in post-Ceausescu Romania.

Danny and Stella, turning thirty soon, feel lost and disorientated. Are they too good for this world, or is the world too bad for them?

A group of armed men storms the stage at a theatre. It's unclear, if this is part of the play or the brutal reality.

Radu is a journalist, who sees his chance to land a big scoop in an international scandal involving an underage prostitute and human trafficking.

The organizers of the Pride Parade in Belgrade find unexpected allies in the criminal milieu.

A bus trip in the Balkans becomes a microcosm that captures the simmering conflicts in the region.