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In the competition of this year's programme will be first-time features from eleven foreign directors and two Hungarians.
Hungary will be represented by Attila Gigor's film The Inspector and Anna Faur's Girls.
From the Czech Republic will come director Karin Babinská's film Dolls, an exploration of the difficulties of growing up. Two Croatian films will compete: Goran Kulenovic's Play Me a Lovesong and Kristian Milic's The Living and the Dead. The latter took seven awards at the Pula Film Festival last year. Two Polish films are also in the competition: Grzegorz Pacek's Wednesday Morning and Lukasz Palkowski's Reserve. The Macedonian director Igor Ivanov Izy's Upside Down tells the story of a circus acrobat who fails to find his place in a corrupt society. Romania will be represented by Adrian Sitaru's Angling and Serbia by Ivan Zivkovic's Hadersfild, which is an adaptation of a powerful play by Ugljesa Sajtinac. Slovakia's entry, entitled Half Breakdown, is a tragicomedy written by Viliam Klimacek and directed by Vlado Fischer. The film has been described as Slovakia's answer to American Beauty. From Slovenia is Marko Nabersnik's Rooster's Breakfast, featuring the lovely Pia Zemljic as the female lead. The last film in competition to be screened at the festival will be Ukrainian director Eva Neymann's At the River.
