The action of the film takes place in the early 80s in USSR. The times of the public mass prosecutions seem to be over by now, but still it is forbidden to listen to the foreign radio stations, and people still feel unsafe talking to strangers about what they really think. Every knock on the door still makes people nervous. People only dare to say the truth in their own homes, sitting on a kitchen with the curtains shut up. And still there are typewritten books of the so called samizdat, which people only riskto give to the tried and true friends, scared of the prosecutions that might follow. KGB monitors telephone lines, spying on politically unreliable citizens, trying to annihilate every nonconformist thought. The heroes of the film are destined to make a stand against the cruel government machine, to risk their lives and to prove that nothing can stop the human being on his way to freedom.

The Ukrainian panorama program presents latest works made by national cinematographers

These nine films from Serbia represent nine auteurs of varying styles and credos: the renowned directors Emir Kusturica, Želimir Žilnik and Goran Paskaljević bring us authentic films which are hard to mimic. Srdan Golubović, an experienced auteur with two feature films, leads the pack of young directors (Dejan Zečević with five, Milorad Milinković with three, Srdja Penezić, Risto Topaloski and Nebojša Radosavljević with one film under their belts) which have drawn attention to themselves as well as drawing the attention of Serbian audience back towards domestically produced films.

This year the program will include both competition and non-competition elements, as well as several presentations and special events, award ceremony and closing party, and for better orientation separate Sunny Bunny mini-catalogue is planned.

Here we have the an amateur films made by Prague revolutionists and films of the Soviet directors on the same topic .

The goEast film festival was founded in 2001 by the Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF with the goal of acquainting a wider audience with the films and cultural landscape of our neighbours in Eastern Europe. From the outset, goEast viewed itself as a forum for East-West dialogue, meaning the festival provides guests with ample opportunity to learn more about each other, to discuss and reflect upon topical issues. The fast-moving process of transformation underway in Central and Eastern Europe, along with the question of a common European identity, are important and much-discussed themes. Attracting increasing numbers of visitors from year to year - news travelled fast about the high quality of the festival programme and the special atmosphere to be enjoyed in the exquisite Caligari film theatre and in the Villa Clementine festival centre in Wiesbaden.

The very best shorts from all parts of Europe in 1 night will fill up one of the greatest Zhovten Cinema halls. These films are young, sharp, sometimes – cruel, but almost always – unpredictable. This is the second part of «Nights of shorts» at «Molodist-2008». We show it once a year and you will got no more chances to watch it! It`s a unique offer! These are the film which will make up European cinematography shortly! It`s the youth which has lots of ahead!

Long-awaited nights of shorts are to b shown again! The tradtional Molodist Program presents a great collection of German Shorts. One of the most mature cinematographies in Europe will be presented by more than 2-hours of animatory, 1 hour of documentary and more than 3(!) hours of feature films. Totally, 6 hours of, the whole spectrum of emotios and tired eyes, just because you was too attentive, are guaranteed! Ya-Ya! Dus is Fantastish!

Delvo films are usually shown once in 5 years on TV far after midnight. This year you can do not have to suffer from insomnia:)

Orson Welles called her "the greatest actress in the world", Louis Malle admired her face saying that it could flame up from the light of the Champs-Elysees and Fassbinder thought her to be the absolute personification of femininity. Jeanne Moreau is without any exaggeration one of the most enigmatic actresses whose work is unique and makes a separate part in the world cinematograph. During a half of the century in cinema Jeanne Moreau has worked with the best directors of the world and the majority of her films became long ago a classic.

One of them is ready to give up his youth, and the other, to give up his millions in a crazy bet lasting for fifteen years. It is a controversy of two people against each other in a closed system named life, a psychological thriller on the basis of a story by A.P. Chekhov.

A film is a documentary portrait of one of the famous and ambiguous political figures of modern Russia - Victor Chernomyrdin. The link man of the film is an outstanding French writer and French Academy Member Maurice Druon. A film is built both on the vast archived cinemas and photo materials and on the special interviews with the well known political and state figures, businessmen, writers, scientists, musicians, artists (Nursultan Nazarbaev, Mintimer Shaymiev, Leonid Kuchma, Eugeny Primakov, Sergey Lavrov, Sergey Shoigu, Anatoliy Chubais, Tat'yana Dmitrieva, Bogdan Budzulyak, Vagit Alekperov, Mstislav Rostropovich, Nicolay Baskov etc.).

Slow and measured life of a small provincial town suddenly changes when Nastya, a star of a popular TV series, arrives there. Her popularity left her, and now she has only her sister to turn to. But sister Vera is not that happy about it: an ancient conflict with her husband Kolya at first prevents Vera from accepting Nastya and sharing everything with her as with the only close person.

A cinematic sonnet cycle of fifteen musical films was devoted to the first Russian feature film “Stenka Razin” (1908). Valerij Bosenko took reels of old Russian and Soviet films, supplementing them with love songs of various epochs performed by Oleg Pogudin. The title of the film indicates its spiritual connection with “Romance sentimentale” (1930), a musical movie directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein.

All of Munchausen's fabulous lies are here presented as “truth”. Considered to be THE BEST film about Baron Munchhausen!!!

The film is shot in post-war Abkhazia, but there is no politics in it. Young man gets among students and alumni of New-Aphon religious school. He likes a girl and joins the church choir in which she sings. But that is just his first step to the life of priests and monks. “Prichastiye” is documentary film, but one can find fiction features in it: the screenplay seems to be written by the life itself.

A successful author of mystery novels is in the middle of a life crisis, from which he helped out by a hired hitman who goes by the nickname Ghost. Hitman shows to him brutal and hard truth of life. From this moment they inseparably linked with each other.

“Ashes of Time” is inspired by Louis Cha's novel The Eagle-Shooting Heroes.

This is a story about the choice each of us has to make at one point in life: the choice between freedom and responsibility for another human being. One day the trucker Fyodor finds out that he has a daughter. He has to prove to her that she needs him; he has to find the key to the cruel world of teenagers, which does not accept outsiders and does not spare insiders...

A sensitive portrait of Sabine Bonnaire, a 38-year-old autistic woman, filmed by her closest sister. The film tells her story through personal footage filmed by the actress over a period of 25 years, and her life today in a suitable facility. This documentary shows us an endearing personality, whose growth and many talents were crushed by an inadequate care structure. After a tragic five-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, Sabine found a new lease on life in a home in the Charente region.

“Rumba” is the story of a couple. They fall, get back on their feet, fall again, get back on their feet again, fall again... Fiona and Dom are primary school teachers in the countryside. They have the same passion for latino dance and are in love with each other. During the weekends they participate in regional dance competitions. Their house has many trophies. One night, on the way back after a competition, they try to avoid an awkward person with suicidal tendencies, and their car crashes into a wall. After that, their life tips over...