FEST 2017 - 45th International Film Festival - Belgrade
The first FEST, under the slogan “A Brave New World” was opened on the 9th of January 1971 in Dom Sindikata, with the screening of Robert Altman’s Mash. Envisioned as the annual review of the best films of the season, the Belgrade International Film Festival - FEST – evolved to become one of the most important festivals on the continent and a pillar event of Belgrade's cultural life and an indispensable element in the coming of age of many generations of film amateurs.
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- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsEmir KusturicaMonica BellucciSloboda MicalovicA story that stretches across war, blossoming love and living as a recluse.
- DirectorSeifollah SamadianA documentary about the legendary film maker Abbas Kiarostami. A photographer and long time friend of Kiarostami, Seyfolah Samadian has put together some footage of his moments with Kiarostami, his travel photography, film making etc.
- DirectorJorge Michel GrauStarsCarmen BeatoDemián BichirHéctor BonillaBased on true events about the earthquake of Mexico in 1985 who claimed the lives of more than 40.000 people.
- DirectorLuka BursacStarsRade CosicDragan JovanovicNikola SurbanovicIn recent years, the city of Belgrade has been proclaimed the capital of European clubbing. Told from the perspective of prestigious city club bartender Marko Mare, this is a story about modern-day Belgrade and its residents.
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsSasha LaneShia LaBeoufRiley KeoughA teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
- DirectorEwan McGregorStarsEwan McGregorJennifer ConnellyDakota FanningAn All-American college star and his beauty queen wife watch their seemingly perfect life fall apart as their daughter joins the turmoil of '60s America.
- DirectorAng LeeStarsJoe AlwynGarrett HedlundArturo Castro19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks, the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
- DirectorAlberto RodríguezStarsJose CoronadoEduard FernándezMiquel García BordaThe story of a man who fooled an entire country. A tale of cheats and impostors, taking its inspiration from true facts and from one of the most intriguing characters of recent decades: the spy Francisco Paesa.
- DirectorDaniel KwanDaniel ScheinertStarsPaul DanoDaniel RadcliffeMary Elizabeth WinsteadA hopeless man stranded on a deserted island befriends a dead body, and together they go on a surreal journey to get home.
- DirectorStefano MordiniStarsRiccardo ScamarcioMarina FoïsEduardo ScarpettaA mobster becomes enlightened when he falls for a woman and decides to change his ways.
- DirectorHussein Hassan AliStarsRekish ShahbazDiman ZandiAdil AbdolrahmanRadical Islamist militants attack a village in Iraq where a young Yazidi love couple prepares for marriage. From that moment onwards their lives are turned into a nightmare.
- DirectorMichael Dudok de WitStarsEmmanuel GarijoTom HudsonBaptiste GoyA man is shipwrecked on a deserted island and encounters a big red turtle, which changes his life.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsReda KatebSophie SeminJens HarzerA beautiful summer day. A garden. A terrace. A woman and a man sit at a table beneath the trees, with a soft summer wind. In the distance, in the vast plain, the silhouette of Paris. A conversation begins: questions and answers between the woman and the man. It deals with sexual experiences, childhood, memories, the essence of summer and the difference between men and women. It illustrates both, feminine perspective and masculine perception. In the background, inside the house that opens onto the terrace, on the woman and the man: the writer, in the process of imagining this dialogue and typing it down. Or is it the other way around? Might it be that those two characters over there tell him what he's putting down on paper: a long, final dialogue between a man and a woman?
- DirectorMilos RadovicStarsLazar RistovskiPetar KoracPavle EricStatistics show that during their career every railroad engineer working unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a story about the innocent mass murderers and their lives.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsSherwan HajiSakari KuosmanenKaija PakarinenA poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsNatalie PortmanPeter SarsgaardGreta GerwigFollowing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy.
- DirectorHaim TabakmanStarsAvi KushnirEfrat Ben-ZurGil FrankYoel and Ewa are long married. One day, Yoel learns to his surprise that he owns property and that one of the tenants knows Ewa well. As he tries to solve the mystery, his life changes forever.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsPierre NineyPaula BeerErnst StötznerIn the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
- DirectorNevio MarasovicStarsFranjo DijakNatasa Janjic MedancicJanko Popovic VolaricGoran just wants to drive his taxi and take care of his blind wife Lina. But people close to him have their own agendas and dreams which threaten his carefree existence. In the idyllic surroundings of snow-covered Gorski Kotar, the fiery personalities of the highlanders surface and collide.
- DirectorPete TravisStarsRiz AhmedBillie PiperJames Krishna FloydIn the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye into a dangerous world of religious fanaticism and political intrigue.
- DirectorGuðmundur Arnar GuðmundssonStarsBaldur EinarssonBlær HinrikssonDiljá ValsdóttirIn a fishing village in Iceland, a boy develops feelings for his best friend as his best friend pursues his affections for a girl.
- DirectorZiga VircStarsSlavoj ZizekJosip Broz TitoJohn F. KennedyExplores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America's purchase of Yugoslavia's clandestine space program in the early 1960s.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsBoguslaw LindaZofia WichlaczBronislawa ZamachowskaThe story of charismatic painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who opposed social realism and maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles.
- DirectorFilip KovacevicStarsStojan DjordjevicDacha VidosavljevicSten ZendorA man wakes up in a square of an unknown city again and again, after each failed attempt to escape four masked assassins. Through the never ending chase, he tries to recover his identity, and find out who set him up.
- DirectorBehnam BehzadiStarsSahar DolatshahiAli MosaffaAlireza AghakhaniWith fascinating insights into everyday life in Tehran, the film portrays the 'inversion" of a woman, and her mutiny against male domination.