VizArt

A romantic drama about three couples from Banja Luka whose destinies intertwine on New Year's Eve.

Ivan teaches history in a Belgrade high school. In his class, Ivan is provoked by a student and ends up slapping him on the face. In Serbia, in the heat of transitional changes, Ivan’s presence in school is no longer welcomed. He finds a temporary job opportunity in a war-scarred mountain village in Bosnia. On his way there, he meets Yasmina, a young Muslim woman, back from Germany to her homeland after the war and after being invited by an old friend – Hazim - who now runs a motel. A lone kiss in a stormy night, in a village still lying in ruins, will bring Yasmina and Ivan closer together in a joint escape from reality and to a ride on a dusty bus, where neither one of them wants to sit next to the window.

From here, you can see everything: the sea to the right, the mountains to the left, the sky in between.

A small group of soldiers separated from their unit is trying to orientate and reach the sea.

Nenad is a worker at a train repair factory in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and as many young people around him, he plans to go to work and possibly permanently live in Slovenia. Between nostalgia for the homeland and dreams of a better life, the film explores the dilemmas that arise when you decide to leave your country.

Two men - one in the West, one in the East, brothers. In both places, life is muted, solitary, nondescript. Here, windows are painted, switches rewired and cigarettes smoked; there, lengths swum, boxing matches prepared for, transactions made. What is it that links these things? Winter swimming pools, the sound of a bell, a bullet passing through bone?

Where does tolerance reside? Where does individual end and collective begin? And who claims the privilege to grant or deny rights?

SVETLANA talks about challenges and uncertainties one faces during life. Milan is a man who had been sidetracked during transition from communism to capitalism, finding himself in an in-between land. Story of his life is difficult, turbulent, filled with emotions and sometimes cruel experiences. He finds salvation from the memories of his hard life in endless work and waiting for Svetlana.