RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN DVDS

    Collection of short films set in, and around, the Croatian capital of Zagreb. The nine films included document the experiences of various characters living in different parts of the city. The films are: 'Slap in the Face', 'Yellow Moon', 'Bill Collector', 'Goran Odvorcic and Matija Klukovic's Film for Asja Jovanovic and Andrea Rumenjak', 'Recycling', 'Game Over', 'Canal', 'Spansko: A Continent' and 'The Smartest Neighbourhood in the Country'.

UKRAINIAN DVDS

ALMOST HOLY (15) 2015   HOOVER, STEVE £15.99

 Film follows the activities of Ukrainian Pastor Gennadiy began forcibly kidnapping the homeless children in the night and taking them to his rehabilitation centre. His controversial methods have drawn both admiration and consternation.

MAIDAN  (E)  2014 UKRAINE LOZNITSA,  SERGEI   £14.99

   Documentary centred around the civil uprisings in Ukraine during 2013. 

THE TRIBE (18) 2014 UKRAINE  SLABOSHPITSKY, MIROSLAV £19.99

 Filmed in sign language, with no dialogue, subtitles or voice over, we follow a new student at a Ukrainian school for deaf and mute children as he deals with gangs and love. 

KILLER MERMAIDS (15) 2013 SERBIA  TODOROVIC, MILAN    £15.99

    Two young Americans  visit a remote former Nazi concentration on a deserted prison island camp known as Mamula and discover a bloodthirsty being lurking in the watery depths.

LIFE IS A MIRACLE (15) 2003 SERBIA   KUSTURICA,  EMIR    £19.99

 Blend of bawdy humour and love story set against the turbulent backdrop of the Bosnian  war of the early 90s.

LOVE SICK  (15) 2006   ROMANIA   GIURGIU, TUDOR    £14.99

 A lesbian relationship between a pair of college students is put to the test by a jealous male sibling.

LOVING GLANCES (15) 2003 SERBIA    KARANOVIC, SRDJAN    £15.99

    Light-hearted Serbian-language drama following the love that blossoms between two refugees in 1990s Belgrade.

PANAMA (15) 2015 SERBIA  VUCKOVIC,  PAVLE   £15.99

 After a love affair ends with Maja, architecture student Jovan continues to stalk her every move online.

THE PARADE (15) 2011 SERBIA      DRAGOJEVIC, SRDJAN    £15.99

    Serbian comedy drama. Forever under threat from homophobic right wing groups, gay couple Mirko (Goran Jevtic) and Radmilo (Milos Samolov) are forced to live a discreet personal life in Belgrade.

PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAME (18) IN SERBO-CROAT 1996 DRAGOJEVIC, SRDJAN £15.99

 Based on a true story set in the first winter of the Bosnian  war in 1992.  

PRIEST'S CHILDREN (15) 2013   CROATIA  BRESAN, VINKO £17.99

   Dark Croatian comedy about a Catholic priest who moves to a small island with dwindling 

population and takes drastic underhand measures to raise the birth rate.

SILENT SONATA (15) 2010 SLOVENIA     BURGER, JANEZ    £15.99

    The Circus Fantasticus pulls up at the dilapidated farmhouse situated in a barren war torn landscape and the residents of the farmhouse learn to live with their loss through their interactions with the performers

SKINNING (18) 2010    SERBIA    FILIPOVIC, STEVAN    £15.99

    Serbian crime drama following Novica (Nikola Rakocevic), an introverted high school student with a talent for mathematics who falls in with the wrong crowd. When Novica becomes acquainted with skinhead Relja (Viktor Savic) after helping him cheat in a maths competition, it is not long before he becomes involved in crime. At first hooliganism at a football match leads to Novica's arrest but when he becomes a member of Relja's white supremacist gang things take a much darker turn.

SPARE PARTS (15)  2003  SLOVENIA   KOZOLE, DAMJAN      £19.99

 Film about the lives of two people smugglers and the immigrants who pass through their hands.

TECHNOTISE: EDIT & I (15) 2009 SERBIA ANDRIC,N./GAJIC, A./DJORDJEVIC, Z   £12.99

   Cyberpunk anime set in 2074 in which a female psychology student has a memory chip implanting in her body to  help her cheat in her exams.  However the miracle chip starts  taking over her mind.

TULPAN (12) 2008 KAZAKHSTAN DVORTSEVOY, SERGEI  KAZAKH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES  £15.99   

    First feature from award winning director Segei Dvortsevoy is an astonishing ethnographic drama-cum-wildlife movie.

UNDERGROUND  (18) 1995 IN SERBO-CROAT   KUSTURICA,  EMIR 3 DISC SET   DVD £29.99   BLU RAY - £29.99

 Based on Dusan Kovacevic’s story ‘Once Upon A Time There Was A Country’, the story follows two likable crooks from 1944 Belgrade to the Yugoslavian Civil War in the 1990s in this complete 5-hour TV version.

WHEN FATHER WAS AWAY ON BUSINESS (15) YUGOSLAVIA  1981  KUSTURICA, EMIR SERBO-CROAT     £19.99

 Film about a young boy grows up in 1950s Yugoslavia, oblivious to the political situation around him.

ZAGREB STORIES: VOLUME 1 (TBA)   2009 £12.99

EARTHQUAKE (15)  2016 ARMENIA ANDREASYAN, SARIK   £15.99

 Set during the 1988 Spitek earthquake 50-year-old Russian Konstantin and 28-year-old Armenian Robert work together to rescue the survivors.

INCARNATION (15) 2016  SERBIA KOVACEVIC, FILIP   £12.99

  Low-budget Serbian action thriller. The film follows an amnesiac man (Stojan Djordjevic) who finds himself stuck in a deadly time loop in which he wakes up on the same bench in an unknown city and is pursued by masked assassins who want him dead. 

SOFIA'S LAST AMBULANCE (E) 2012 BULGARIA METEV,  ILIAN £12.99

    Observational documentary which follows a paramedic crew in charge of an ambulance in the Bulgarian city of Sofia.

ZIFT (15) 2008 BULGARIA   GARDEV, JAVOR        £16.99       

    Crime mystery following three friends whose lives are shaped by a failed robbery.

CZECHOSLOVAKIAN/SLOVAKIAN/CZECH REPUBLIC DVDS

1941 - THE BATTLE OF TOBRUK (15) CZECH REPUBLIC/SLOVAKIA 2008   MARHOUL, VACLAV £9.99

  Tense, unsentimental WWII drama in which two Czech recruits find themselves in North Africa helping out the allies.

A BLONDE IN LOVE (15) 1965 CZECHOSLOVAKIA  FORMAN, MILOS DVD - £12.99   BLU RAY - £19.99 

  A female factory worker in rural Czechoslovakia meets a pianist for Prague at a dance and they spend the night  together.  He return to Prague and she decides to pay him a visit much to his surprise.

ADELHEID  (15) CZECH 1970  FRANTIŠEK VLÁCIL        £12.99

     An emotional tale of two lovers trapped in the march of history. 

ALL MY GOOD COUNTRYMEN (15) 1969 CZECHOSLOVAKIA  JASNÝ, VOJTECH £12.99

   Cannes award winning film set among the interwoven lives of Moravian villagers following the 1948 socialization of Czechoslovakia.  Director Vojtech Jasný is seen as the spiritual father of the  Czech New Wave and the film was banned in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion.

ALOIS NEBEL (15) 2011 CZECH  LUNÁK, TOMÁS £12.99

   Animated film-noir abnout a lonely train dispatcher, sees the ghosts which haunt him and his country's past.

AUDITION/TALENT COMPETITION (12) 1963 CZECHOSLOVAKIA  FORMAN, MILOS  £12.99

 Considered to be the film that launched the Czech New Wave

BIRDS, ORPHANS AND FOOLS (15) 1969 SLOVAKIA  JAKUBISKO, JURAJ      £15.99

    Shot immediately after the Soviet invasion of 1968, Jakubisko’s long-repressed feature focuses on the relationship that develops between two male friends and a female Jewish orphan as they travail a world ravaged by death and destruction, a war-torn landscape of bombed-out churches and wrecked homes.

BLACK PETER (12) 1964   CZECHOSLOVAKIA    FORMAN, MILOS DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

 Forman’s debut feature is a wry and provocative comedy about 17-year-old Petr, who gets a job as a security guard at a busy local shop.  However he struggles with the job and his boss, in this portrait of everyday life under totalitarianism. 

BROKEN PROMISE (E) 2009    SLOVAKIA    CHLUMSKÝ, JIRÍ    £15.99

    Based on a true story, following the fate of a Jewish boy who enjoys a fairly ordinary and happy childhood until the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938 leads to the creation of a new nation, Slovakia, and a dramatic increase in anti-Semitism.

BUTCHER OF PRAGUE (15) 2001  CZECH REPUBLIC  NIKOLAEV, PETR £14.99

  On June 10, 1942, over 300 people, many of whom are children, where massacred in the Czech village of Lidice in Central Bohemia by Nazi soldiers in retaliation for the assassination of Nazi general Reinhard Heydrich . The film tells this harrowing story.

THE CZECHOSLOVAK NEW WAVE - A COLLECTION (15)         £24.99

    Features  - 'Diamonds of the Night' (1964), 'Intimate Lighting' (1969) and  'The Cremator' (1969).

CREMATOR (15) CZECH REPUBLIC  1968   HERZ,  JURAJ  £12.99

 Film has been described as surrealist-inspired horror.

CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS (15) CZECHOSLOVAKIA  1966 MENZEL, JIRI      £17.99

 Tragic-comic tale of a young railway guard at a sleepy country station in the Second World War.

CONSPIRATORS OF PLEASURE (18) 1996  CZECH  SVANKMAJER, JAN    £15.99

    Exploring the bizarre exotic impulses of individuals in present day Prague.

DAISIES (18)  CZECHOSLOVAKIA   1966  CHYTILOVA, VERA     £17.99

 An acclaimed comedy-drama revolving around two teenage girls who decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well. A series of destructive pranks ensue.

DIAMONDS OF THE NIGHT (12) 1964 CZECHOSLOVAKIA     NEMEC, JAN DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99    

    Jan Nemec, enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave, directs this starkly surrealist drama telling the brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one Nazi death camp to another.

DRAGON'S RETURN (15) 1968 CZECHOSLOVAKIA GRECNER, EDUARD £12.99  

  A key film from Slovak cinema’s golden era, Eduard Grecner's Dragon's Return is a radical fusion of ancient folklore and experimental modernism - and an exciting rediscovery.

EAR (12) 1970 CZECHOSLOVAKIA  KACKYNA, KAREL    £12.99

 Banned in Czechoslovakia, the film is one of the most direct indictments of life under an oppressive totalitarian system.

FALL OF THE INNOCENT (15)  2011  CZECH    £14.99

    Drama based on the horrific events that took place in Lidice under the Nazi regime during the Second World War.

FIREMAN'S BALL (PG) 1967 CZECH FORMAN, MILOS £15.99

 Forman's allegorical comedy about bureaucracy was his last Czech film before he left for America.

FRANTISEK VLACIL COLLECTION (15)    CZECHOSLOVAKIA     C  FRANTISEK VLACIL    £24.99

    Three films by Czech master director Frantisek Vlacil. ‘Marketa Lazarova’ (1967),  ‘The Valley of the Bees’ (1968) and ‘Adelheid’ (1970). 

FRUIT OF PARADISE TRAPS (18) 1970  CZECHOSLOVAKIA

  CHYTILOVÁ, VERA   £12.99

      Vera Chytilová co-writes and directs this Czech experimental drama retelling the story of Adam and Eve. 

I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND (15) CZECHOSLOVAKIA  2006  MENZEL, JIRI     £15.99

 Much of the film is told in flashback, transporting the audience back to  Prague, both before and during World War II.

IKARIE XB-1(12) 1963  CZECHOSLOVAKIA   POLÁK, JINDRICH    £12.99    

    Pioneering and much-imitated film is one of the cornerstones of contemporary sci-fi cinema.

INTIMATE LIGHTING (12) 1982 CZECHOSLOVAKIA PASSER, IVAN     £12.99

 Wry yet sympathetic look at the human condition, and role that music  can play in life. 

INVENTION FOR DESTRUCTION (12) 1958  CZECHOSLOVAKIA ZEMAN , KAREL DVD -  £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 (BOTH FORMATS REGION FREE)

  One of the most commercially successful Czech films.   The film is a  combination of live-action and animation and is a heartfelt homage to Jules Verne's tales of science and adventure.

JAN SVANKMAJER: THE COMPLETE SHORT FILMS 1964-1992  (15)     CZECH REPUBLIC           £32.99

KOLYA (12) 1996 CZECHOSLOVAKIA   SVERAK, JAN      £19.99

 Czech man marries a Russian woman for money but gets more than he  bargained for.

LARKS ON A STRING (15) 1990 CZECHOSLOVAKIA        MENZEL,  JIRI        £15.99

    Comedy drama set in a labour camp in 1950s Communist-run Prague. The film tells the stories of the various characters interned in the labour camp-cum-scrapyard, who have been deemed counter-revolutionary and 'bourgeois' by the Czech government and are now forced to spend their days sorting out piles of scrap metal for the purposes of 're-education'.

LITTLE OTIK (15) 2000 CZECHOSLOVAKIA  JAN SVANKMAJER  IN ENGLISH  £9.99

 Dark fairy story about a living tree stump.

LUNACY (18) 2005 CZECH  SVANKMAJER, JAN  £15.99

    Comic horror tale of a young man who falls under the influence of the Marquis de Sade.

MANDRAGORA  (18)  CZECHOSLOVAKIA  2003 GRODECKI,  WIKTOR         £19.99

 Graphic portrayal of teenage boys living in a world of sex, drugs, prostitution.

MARKETA LAZAROVÁ (15)  CZECHOSLOVAKIA  1967  VLÁCIL,   FRANTISEK  £12.99

 A Czech clan falls foul of the King in medieval times, set against the backdrop of Christianity replacing Paganism.

MIRACULOUS VIRGIN (12) 1967  CZECHOSLOVAKIA UHER, STEFAN DVD -  £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99 (REGION FREE)

   This surreal odyssey is based on a  1944 novella by  Dominik Tatarka, but is now set in the  1960s. Mysterious Anabella  inspires a group of young artists and challenges the material world. Includes the short - Marked by Darkness

MORGIANA (15)  1972 CZECHOSLOVAKIA  HERZ,  JURAJ        £12.99

    Extravagantly hallucinatory Gothic horror story is often described as the last film of the Czech New Wave. Based on a short story by Aleksandr Grin.

NOT ANGELS BUT ANGELS (18) CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1994 GRODECKI,WIKTOR £19.99

 Documentary portrait of teenage hustlers in Prague.

THE ODDSOCKEATERS (PG)   2016 CZECH REPUBLIC MIKLÍNOVÁ, GALINA £10.99

 Animated adventure about a small creatures (the Oddsockeaters) who eats

one sock from each pair of socks.

PARTY AND THE GUESTS  (15)   1966 CZECHOSLOVAKIA  NEMEC, JAN    £12.99

  Allegory about the cause and effects of power and conformity

PICTURES OF THE OLD WORLD (E) 1972   SLOVAKIA  HANÁK, DUSAN £12.99

  Dusan Hanák writes and directs the documentary about the lives of  nine people living in the remote and forgotten villages of the Tatra mountains as they struggle with dire poverty and deprivation - a sharp contrast to the communist propaganda of the time which promised citizens a socialist paradise.

POST COITUM  (18)   2004  SLOVAKIA     JAKUBISKO, JURAJ     £15.99

 A look at the complex, intermingled sexual relationships between a number of diverse characters.

ROMEO, JULIET AND DARKNESS (12) 1960 CZECHOSLOVAKIA WEISS, JIRÍ    £12.99

 Set in 1942 Prague, where a student hides a Jewish girl in the attic of his apartment building. 

SHOP ON THE HIGH STREET (15) 1965 CZECHOSLOVAKIA   KADÁR, JÁN/KLOS, ELMAR £12.99

 Set in the German-occupied, 'independent' Slovak state during World War II. A carpenter is appointed 'Aryan Controller' of a button shop owned by an old Jewish woman, who, being both near-sighted and deaf, has no idea that there is a war on.

SOMETHING DIFFERENT/A BAGFUL OF FLEAS (PG) 1963 CZECHOSLOVAKIA    CHYTILOVÁ,VERA £12.99

   'Something Different' (1963) follows the lives of frustrated housewife Vera (Vera Uzelacová) and gymnast Eva (Eva Bosáková). While Vera struggles to get her husband to appreciate her and the work she does, Eva contends with a gruelling training schedule as she prepares to participate in her last competition.  'A Bagful of Fleas' (1962) depicts a young girl's rebellion against those in charge of her all-girl school dormitory.

SUN IN A NET (12) 1962  SLOVAKIA      UHER, STEFAN        £12.99

    This groundbreaking film is consistently ranked among the greatest films in the history of Czechoslovak cinema and is cited as the film that kick-started the whole 'Czechoslovak New Wave' movement.

SURVIVING LIFE (THEORY AND PRACTICE) (15) 2010 CZECHOSLOVAKIA   SVANKMAJER,  JAN    £15.99

    Surrealist animated comedy poking fun at the psychoanalytical interpretation of dreams.

TENDERNESS (15) 1991 SLOVAKIA SULÍK, MARTIN BLU RAY 19.99

  A rich and complex coming-of-age story, Tenderness focuses on a passionate and often cruel ménage à trois shaped by a country in the throes of political upheaval and social transformation. Cited as one of the finest ever Slovak feature debuts, the film marked the arrival of Šulik as one of international cinema's most vital talents.

THREE WISHES FOR CINDERELLA (PG) 1973  CZECHOSLOVAKIA/GDR    VORLÍCEK, VÁCLAV £12.99

    Classic fairy tale, beautifully filmed in Dresden and Prague,  about a poor girl whose magic hazel nuts transforms her so that she can attend the ball and meet the prince.

TRANSPORT FROM PARADISE (15) 1963   CZECHOSLOVAK   BRYNYCH, ZBYNEK    £12.99

    In the Theresienstadt ghetto of Czechoslovakia, the Nazis are preparing for a visit from the International Red Cross. In an attempt to cover up the real function of the ghetto they draft in actors for a propaganda film which will show the community flourishing as opposed to dwindling.

TRAPS (18) 1998   CZECHOSLOVAKIA CHYTILOVÁ, VERA   £12.99

  After meeting men rape a woman she take  brutal revenge.

VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (15) 1970  CZECHOSLOVAKIA   JIRES, JAROMIL  DVD -  £12.99  BLU RAY - £20.99

 Gothic fairy tale about Valerie, a young village girl on the cusp of adolescence, indulges in Gothic daydreams and fantasies.

WITCHHAMMER (15) 1970  CZECHOSLOVAKIA VÁVRA, OTAKAR DVD -   £12.99   BLU RAY - £19.99

  Set in 17th century Moravia, an old woman is accused of witchcraft and a judge is brought in to deal with the case and quickly begins accusing more of the local women of devil worship and sorcery

GEORGIAN DVDS

IN BLOOM (15) GEORGIA 2013 NANA EKVTIMISHVILI, N/GROß, S £15.99

Set  against the backdrop of the country's civil war in the 1990s .

THE SEARCH (15) 2014 GEORGIA HAZANAVICIUS, MICHEL £19.99

  Bérénice Bejo stars as Carole, an NGO worker stationed in Chechnya during the Chechen War in 1999.  Here Carole takes mute and traumatised orphan, Hadji (Abdul Khalim Mamutsiev) under her wing.

THE PRESIDENT (15)  GEORGIA  2014  MAKHMALBAF,  MOHSEN (5055159278812) £15.99

  In this dark satire the people overthrown the despotic president of an unnamed country.  Accompanied by his recently orphaned grandson, the president then travels the country disguises as a street musician in an attempt to avoid capture but who begins to learn about the people he oppressed.

TANGERINES (15) 2013 GEORGIAN   URUSHADZE, ZAZA DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY £15.99

    Set during the 1992 war in Abkhazia, Georgia  an Estonian tangerines farmer with land in Abkhazian gets dragged into the bloody conflict at his door.

HUNGARIAN DVDS  

AUTUMN ALMANAC (15) 1984 HUNGARY TARR, BÉLA £15.99

  Set in a claustrophobic apartment, the film follows the interactions of five room-mates who live on the fringes of society.

CHILDREN OF GLORY (15) HUNGARY 2006 GODA, KRISZTINA £17.99

  Set during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the Hungarian water polo team was winning over the Soviets in the Olympic pool in Melbourne, in what has been described as the bloodiest water polo match in history.

DELTA (18) 2008 HUNGARY MUNDRUCZO, KORNEL £19.99

 Hungarian drama about a son's return to his village roots to build a house.   

A LONG WEEKEND IN PEST AND BUDA (12) 2003 HUNGARY MAKK, KAROLY £17.99

    Former couple meet again when the woman falls terminally ill.

ANOTHER WAY (18) 1982 HUNGARY MAKK, KAROLY £12.99

    A tender love story of two women, set against the fall-out from the 1956 Hungarian uprising.

CHILDREN OF GLORY (15) HUNGARY 2006 GODA, KRISZTINA £17.99

  Set during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the Hungarian water polo team was winning over the Soviets in the Olympic pool in Melbourne, in what has been described as the bloodiest water polo match in history.

CONFIDENCE  (BIZALOM) (15) 1980 HUNGARY    SZABO, ISTVAN    £12.99

    Oscar-nominated film is a haunting and moving experience dealing with complex questions of love, trust, loyalty, and betrayal.    

DELTA (18) 2008 HUNGARY MUNDRUCZO, KORNEL £19.99

 Hungarian drama about a son's return to his village roots to build a house.   

ELECTRA, MY LOVE (15) 1974 HUNGRARY  JANCSÓ, MIKLÓS £12.99

    Many years after the death of her father, Agamemnon, at the hands of the tyrant Aegisthus , oppressed Electra seeks revenge by inspiring the people to rebel against Aegisthus and end his cruel reign once and for all.             

FATHER (15) 1966 HUNGRARY SZABÓ, ISTVÁN £12.99

    Set between the period of the Second World War to the Hungarian uprising of 1956, Szabó's powerful cinematic ode relates historical events through the prism of personal experience..

FATELESS (12) 2005 HUNGARY KOLTAI, LAJOS £19.99

    Adaptation of Imre Kertész novel based on his childhood experiences) about a Jewish boy sent to Auschwitz.

HUKKLE (PG) 2002 HUNGARY PALFI, GYORGY £19.99

    Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal)

of a small rural community in Hungary.

HUNGARIAN MASTERS BOX SET (3 FILMS) (15) £24.99

    Features - Love / My Way Home / Diary of My Children.

JOHANNA (15) 2005 HUNGARY MUNDRUCZÓ, KORNÉL £19.99

    An updating of the Joan Of Arc Legend and tells a tale of female suffering and redemption.

JUPITER'S MOON (15) 2017 HUNGARY MUNDRUCZÓ ,  KORNÉL £12.99  

Sci-fi film about a young Syrian refugee Aryan Dashni who is shot while illegally trying to cross into Hungary. In a refugee camp doctor Gabor Stern nurses Aryan back to health.  However on recover Aryan  discovers he possesses the power to levitate and fly, which Dr Stern decides to exploit. But all Aryan wants is to be reunited with his father. 

KILLS ON WHEELS (15) 2016  HUNGARY TILL,  ATTILA   DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY £15.99

 Inventive, action-packed coming-of-age film about friendship, loyalty and revenge set in a care home.  Disabled and inseparable friends, Zoli and Barba, need money to pay for medical care, which bring them into contact with the mysterious ex-con Rupasovm, who offers them a chance to make some extra money by helping him in his work.

KONTROLL (15) 2003 HUNGARY ANTAL, NIMROD £19.99

    Black comedy set entirely in Budapest’s subway network.

LOVE (12) 1971 HUNGARY MAKK, KAROLY £12.99

    After her husband is arrested , his wife attempts to ease the pain of his ailing mother,

by concocting a tale of his fantastic new life in America.

THE MAN FROM LONDON (12) 2007 HUNGARY  TARR, BELA IN ENGLISH £15.99

    Hungarian director Bela Tarr helms this brooding mystery drama, which is loosely based on a lesser-known novel by Belgian crime novelist Georges Simenon.

MY 20TH CENTURY (15) HUNGARY 1989  ENYEDI, ILDIKÓ £12.99

  Comedy drama about  identical twin sisters Dóra and Lili  who are adopted by two different families following the death of their mother. Years later Lili, a revolutionary planing an assassination, meets Z who then also comes across the other estranged twin.

MY WAY HOME (12) HUNGARY 1965 JANCSO, MIKLÓS £15.99

    In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy is captured and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier.

PEOPLE OF THE MOUNTAINS (15) 1942  HUNGARY   SZÖTS, ISTVÁN £12.99

  Forgotten masterpiece, filmed entirely on location in harsh conditions, tells the story of a woodcutter and his family who live high in mountains of Transylvania. Forced out of their home and enticed into a new work the families  life begins to unravel one tragic misfortune after another. 

PLEASANT DAY (18) 2002 HUNGARY MUNDRUCZÓ, KORNÉL £19.99

    A bleak, often brutal drama of adolescent life in Hungary.

RED AND THE WHITE (12) HUNGARY 1967 JANCSO, MIKLÓS £12.99

    An almost abstractly study of power and the utter futility of war.

RED PSALM (15) 1972 HUNGARY    JANCSÓ, MIKLÓS        £12.99

    Winner of the Best Director Prize at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, the film - famously shot in just 28 long takes - recounts the story of a peasant uprising in Hungary in the earliest days of socialism in the 1890s, delivering an exuberantly expressive essay on the nature of revolution and the underlying issues of oppression, morality and violence.

ROUND UP (15) HUNGARY 1966 JANCSO, MIKLÓS £12.99

    Set in the mid 19th century , Hapsburg soldiers are hunting Hungarian partisans.

SILENCE AND CRY (12)   1968   HUNGARY JANCSÓ, MIKLÓS DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

 Final part of an epic unofficial trilogy, following The Round-Up and The Red and the White, Silence and Cry reveals the terrible impact of tyrannical power, politics and history.

STRANGLED (18) 2016 HUNGARY SOPSITS, ÁRPÁD   DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY £15.99

 Thriller set in 1960s as group of detectives race against the clock to catch a killer who has already claimed the lives of several young women, before an 

innocent man is wrongly convicted for the crimes.

SUNSET HUNGARY (15) 2018 HUNGARY   NEMES, LÁSZLÓ £15.99

   Set in 1913, the film follows Írisz Leiter  as she travels from Trieste to Budapest, hoping to reconnect with her past and discover a long lost brother.

SZINDBAD (15) 1971 HUNGARY        HUSZARIK, ZOLTAN    £12.99

    A surreal and highly stylized  adaptation  of  the  life, loves of  Szindbád

TAXIDERMIA (18) HUNGARY 2006 PALFI, GYORGY £19.99

    Surreal film charting three male generations of the same, bizarre family.

TURIN HORSE (15) 2011 HUNGARY  TARR, BÉLA/HRANITZKY, ÁGNES    £15.99

    Black and white drama set in the early 19th century and inspired by a story about the German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche.

WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES/DAMNATION (15) HUNGARY 2000/1987 TARR,BELA £19.99

    Two dvds with two films from one of Hungaries most original contemporary filmmakers. The first film is about a small town disturbed by the arrival of a circus, the other about a man obsessed with a bar singer.

WHITE GOD (15) 2014 HUNGARY MUNDRUCZÓ, KORNÉL £19.99

  13-year-old Lili searches for her dog in Budapest.

LITHUANIAN/ESTONIAN  DVDS 

THE FENCER (PG) 2015   ESTONIA HÄRÖ, KLAUS    £15.99

 Set in 1953 Endel flees the secret police in Leningrad and moves to the small town of Haapsulu where he takes up a post as a PE teacher and starts teaching the kids to fence in defiance of the school head who wants the sport banned. To do this the head digs into Endel past.

KILLER INK (18) 2015  LITHUANIA   DOWNS,D/GAGE,K  £14.99

   Lithuanian horror movie with an evil tattoo artist.

NOVEMBER (15)  2017 ESTONIAN   SARNET, RAINER   DUAL FORMAT DVD AND BLU RAY £12.99

  Inventive, funny and  magical film is set in snowy landscape of 19th-century Estonia and is an adapted from the novel by Andrus Kivirähk.  Evoking influences as varied, as The Brothers Grimm, Bela Tarr and Jan Vankmajer, young Lina and Hans are preparing to marry in their pagan village where werewolves and spirits roam free.

VANISHING WAVES (18) 2012 LITHUANIA BUOZYTE, KRISTINA IN LITHUANIAN £15.99

Lithuanian sci-fi thriller.

YOU CAN'T ESCAPE LITHUANIA (18) 2016 LITHUANIAN   ZABARAUSKAS,  ROMAS   £15.99

  Actress, Indre murders her mother and filmmaker Romas and his boyfriend Carlos will help her flee the country, but only on the condition that they film the escape to make an improvised experimental film.

POLISH DVDS 

1939: BATTLE OF WESTERPLATTE (15) 2012 POLAND   CHOCHLEW, PAWEL   £15.99

    Film charts the conflict between two Polish officers in charge at the Battle of Westerplatte, the first clash between Polish and German forces in WWII.

ALL THAT I LOVE (TBA) 2009    POLAND  BORCUCH, JACEK    £14.99

    Coming-of-age drama about four schoolboys who form a punk band. Set over the course of one year, against the backdrop of the political uprisings in Poland in 1981 their emergent and often conflicting ideals in a dangerously volatile political climate.

ANDRZEJ WAJDA WAR TRILOGY  (12) 1955-58  POLAND      £29.99

 Features - Ashes and Diamonds,  A Generation & Kanal.

ASHES AND DIAMONDS (12) 1958  WAJDA, ANDRZEJ        £22.99

    In 1945, on the day World War Two ends, young Nationalist underground member Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski), who has remained steadfastly loyal to the British government throughout the Nazi occupation, is ordered to kill the new local Communist leader. His outlook is changed as he waits overnight in a hotel when he meets and falls in love with a young girl.

BATTLE OF WARSAW 1920 (15) 2011   POLAND     HOFFMAN, JERZY    £15.99

    Drama about the final battle of the Polish-Soviet War.

BLIND CHANCE (18) POLAND  1981 KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF        £19.99

 Young man is running to catch a train.  The film them follows three imagined outcomes of  this event.

THE BORDER (18) 2014   POLAND    £17.99

 A  Polish squads job is to control human trafficking on the countries  border with the Ukraine. When all the squad, but one,  are killed and the innocent surviving squad member goes on the run as the authorities make him a prime suspect. 

CAMERA BUFF (18) POLAND  1979  KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF      £19.99  

 A man buys cine camera to film his new baby. The camera becomes a consuming passion  and  it leads to  unforeseen problems.  

COLD WAR (15) 2018 POLAND PAWLIKOWSKI, PAWEL  DVD - £15.99  BLU RAY - £19.99

  Beautifully shot in black and white, this romantic epic is set in Post war Europe.  Two people with different backgrounds and temperaments beginning an affair, but the Cold War splits them apart.  One heads for  the freedom of West and one opts to stay.  An impossible love story in impossible times.

DEKALOG AND OTHER TELEVISION WORKS (15) 1998 POLAND  KIESLOWSKI,  KRZYSZTOF DUAL FORMAT BLU RAY/DVD   £63.99

  All ten episodes of the acclaimed Polish drama series 'Dekalog', revolving around the consequences arising from a breach of one of the Ten Commandments. Also included are all of Kieslowski’s television work, starting with his first professional short fiction film and continuing with four feature-length pieces.

EROICA (12) 1958 POLAND    MONK,  ANDRZEJ   

    Set during World War II, the feature is comprised of two separate tales. The first, entitled 'Scherzo Alla Pollacca', follows Dzidzius (Edward Dziewonski), a Warsaw man who is drawn into the war in spite of his fervent desire to protect himself from danger at all costs.

'Ostinato Lugubre' takes place in a Prisoner of War camp, where the escape bid of Lt. Zawistowski (Tadeusz Lomnicki) becomes a subject of legend among the patriotic Polish POWs. However, was Zawistowski trying to escape from the camp or merely to escape from them?

ESCAPE FROM THE LIBERTY CINEMA (12) 1990 POLAND MARCZEWSKI, WOJCIECH   £12.99

 Dark political satire examining the effects of censorship.  A lonely government censor has to deal with an  actors on strike at his local cinema, the Liberty.

ESSENTIAL KILLING (15) POLAND SKOLIMOWSKI, JERZY        £15.99

    Thriller about an  Afghanistan who is transferred to a detention centre in an unspecified eastern European country for interrogation, but manages to escape his captors. Now, as an escaped convict in a hostile and unknown country, he is forced to take extreme measures in order to survive.

FIRE AND SWORD (15) 1999   POLAND     HOFFMAN, JERZY    £9.99

   Polish historical epic set during the Khmelnytsky Uprising in 17th-century Ukraine.

FLOATING SKYSCRAPERS (18) POLAND  WASILEWSKI, .TOMASZ  

    DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

    Award winning film, described by the director  as ‘the first Polish LGBT film’, about two young male swimmers who  fall in love and the unsympathetic reaction this elicits.

HATRED (18) 2017  POLAND SMARZOWSKI, WOJCIECH £15.99

  Zosia a young Polish girl is forced to leave her Ukrainian lover Petro and marry a rich widower, Skiba.  However when WWII breaks out Skiba joins the Polish army, leaving Zosia to fend for herself as tensions rises between local Jews, Poles and Ukrainians, resulting in violent clashes.

THE HOUR GLASS SANITORIUM (15) 1973  POLAND HAS WOJCIECH  £13.99

    Set in a pre-WWII Poland this road-movie for the mind follows a traveller as he reminisces about events in his life.

IDA (12A) 2013 POLAND PAWLIKOWSKI, PAWEL DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

   Set in a convent in the 1960s, orphan Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) decides she wants to take her vows and tells her only living relative, Wanda (Agata Kulesza). However Wanda reveals to Anna that her real name is Ida Lebenstein and that she is actually Jewish causing  Anna to rethink her whole life.

IN DARKNESS (15) 2011    HOLLAND, AGNIESZKA   £19.99

    Acclaimed drama based on the true story of a sewage worker who saved the lives of 14 Jews in the Polish city of Lvov during the Second World War.  In Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish, German.

IN A BEDROOM (15) 2012 POLAND  WASILEWSKI, TOMASZ   £15.99

    Thriller about a lonely 40 year old woman who picks up men and drugs them with sleeping pills and takes advantage of their hospitality.

IN THE NAME OF (15) 2013 POLAND    SZUMOWSKA, MALGORZATA  £15.99

    Charismatic Catholic priest runs a centre for troubled young men in a small village, but as his friendship with one of the young men develops he fight a battle against his own passions and his priestly obligation to be chaste.

INNOCENT SORCERERS (12) 1960 POLAND    WAJDA, ANDRZEJ    £12.99

    Drama following young doctor, whose compulsive womanising has left him tired and all but immune to the charms of the girls who attempt to seduce him. However, when he enjoys an intense conversation with a mysterious woman, who subsequently disappears, he finds himself smitten and sets off around the city in search of her.

INTERROGATION  (18) 1982  POLAND   BUGAJSKI,   RYSZARD     £12.99

 Woman wakes up in prison and is soon being tortured to confess to a crime she hasn’t committed.

JACK STRONG (15) 2014 POLAND    WLADYSLAW PASIKOWSKI,   £14.99

  Espionage thriller.

KNIGHTS OF THE TEUTONIC ORDER (PG) 1960 POLAND  FORD, ALEKSANDER      £12.99

 Epic tale of Poland and Prussia in the Miiddle Ages based on the novel by Nobel winner Henryk Sienkiewicz. 

KNIFE IN THE WATER (PG) 1962 B/W  POLAND   POLANSKI, ROMAN         £19.99    

 Roman Polanski’s first feature film.

LAST FAMILY (15) 2016 POLAND  MATUSZYNSKI., JAN P £15.99

 The film follows the ups and downs of dystopian surrealist painter Zdzislaw Beksinski , his wife and their neurotic suicidal son Tomasz

LIFE FEELS GOOD (15) 2013 POLAND   PIEPRZYCA, MACIEJ   £15.99

 Heartwarming story about a man who lives with severe cerebral palsy that has alienated him from the rest of the world for the first 25 years of his life as he grow up during Poland’s transition to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s. 

MAN OF  MARBLE (PG) 1977 POLAND  WAJDA, ANDRZEJ   £14.99

    Often described as ‘the Polish CITIZEN KANE’, Wajda’s MAN OF MARBLE is not only regarded as one of the greatest, most important films in the history of Polish cinema, it is also one of the key films of the 1970s and one of the most compelling attacks on government corruption ever made. This groundbreaking feature is presented in an all new HD digital restoration.Extras: New exclusive interviews with director Andrzej Wajda, star Krystyna Janda and filmma

MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS  (PG) 1961 POLAND   KAWALEROWICZ, JERZY       £19.99

 Chaos ensues when a Mother Superior of a  convent finds herself possessed by the Devil.

NAKED  (15) POLAND 2001  SWIETNICKI, W/KRZYSZTOF J         £16.99    

 Award winning film about working an office of naked people,  questioning  our  attitudes  to nakedness and  inter-office relationships.

NIGHT TRAIN (12) 1959 POLAND  KAWALEROWICZ, JERZY    £12.99

    Polish thriller about two strangers,  Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) and Marta (Lucyna Winnicka), who are on the run. By coincidence they happen to have bought the same ticket and even though both wanted privacy they decide to share a sleeping quarter for the duration of the journey.

NINA(15) 2018  POLAND CHAJDAS, OLGA  £15.99

  After discovering that Nina is unable to conceive, she and her husband Wojtek set out to find a surrogate. When Wojtek  happens to meet Magda and notices that she has green eyes, a trait they desire for their own offspring, he takes her to meet Nina. What ensues is a complicated web of deceit as Nina and Magda form an unexpected bond that may threaten the future of her marriage with Wojtek.

NO END  (18) POLAND  1985        KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF     £19.99

 Set during Marshall law in Poland, the film is part ghost story, political drama and a meditation on  love.

PAPUSZA (15) 2013 POLAND KRAUZE,K/KOS-KRAUZE J   £15.99

   Biopic based on the life of  Polish-Romani poet Bronislawa Wajs.

PASSENGER  (PG) 1963 POLAND     MUNK, ANDRZEJ     £12.99  

 Wife  confesses to her husband that she was an overseer at the Auschwitz

concentration camp, but that she managed to save a woman’s life.

POLISH CINEMA CLASSICS (12) 1960 POLAND    £39.99

    A 4-DVD set comprising four remarkable films (all available for the first time in the UK) Eroica (1958) Andrzej Munk's two-part anti-war poem is a darkly comic, intelligent and insightful satire on duty, courage and heroism, Night Train (1959): Jerzy Kawalerowicz's homage to Hitchcock,Innocent Sorcerers (1960) is a provocative film by Andrzej Wajda  about contemporary youth from a script co-written by Jerzy Skolimowski and finally  Goodbye, See You Tomorrow (1960) is directors Janusz Morgenstern's touching story of young love.

POLISH CINEMA CLASSICS: VOLUME II (15) POLAND        £33.99

    Features -  Andrzej Wajda Promised Land (Ziemia obiecana, 1974), Krzysztof Zanussi - Illumination (Iluminacja, 1973), Wojciech Marczewski - ESCAPE FROM 'LIBERTY' CINEMA (Ucieczka z kina 'Wolnosc', 1990).

POLISH CINEMA CLASSICS VOL. III (15)   POLAND £39.99

  The third volume of our Polish Cinema Classics series incorporates three of the finest Polish films of the 1970s and 80s. 

All three films are presented from new HD digital transfers with restored picture and sound. 

The Cruise (Rejs) (Marek Piwowski, 1970) -Regarded as Polish cinema's first 'cult' film, Piwowski's absurdist comedy is a satire of life in the People's Republic of Poland.  Camouflage (Barwy ochronne)  (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1976)  - A milestone in Polish cinema which probes into the moral fabric of the society underlying Poland's regime and Shivers (Dreszcze) (Wojciech Marczewski, 1981)- A coming-of-age story set in a 1950s Stalinist youth camp, Marczewski's film daringly explores themes of erotic and political fascinations.

THE PROMISED LAND (15) 1975  POLAND   WAJDA,  ANDRZEJ     £12.99

    Three ambitious businessmen looking to profit from the rise of industry in continental Europe during the 19th century. All equally as ruthless as each other, the three men come up against numerous hurdles and some stiff competition in their pursuit of wealth.

ROMAN POLANSKI COLLECTION (18)           £40.99

 Contains -: Knife In The Water (1962), Repulsion (1965), and Cul-De-Sac (1966), plus bonus disc contains award-winning short films: Two Men And A Wardrobe (1958), A Murderer (1957), Teethful Smile (1957), Breaking Up The Dance (1957), When Angels Fall (1959), Mammals (1962),  and The Fat And The Lean (1961).

ROMAN POLANSKI - A FILM MEMOIR (15) 2011 BOUZEREAU, LAURENT £14.99

Award-winning director Roman Polanski talks candidly about his life and career.

THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT (15) 1965  POLAND HAS WOJCIECH £13.99

    Epic adaptation of Jan Potocki's 19th-century gothic novel has become a cult classic since its making in 1965, and has since been cited as a major inspiration by filmmakers including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Luis Bunuel and David Lynch.

SCAR (18) POLAND  1976  KIESLOWSKI, KRZYSZTOF    £19.99

 Film about the benefits and disadvantages of a new cemical plant being in an impoverished town.

SHADOWS OF OUR FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (15) ARMENIA 1964     £19.99

    Flamboyant visual film   drawn from Carpathian folklore.

A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING(18) 1988  POLAND KIESLOWSKI,  KRZYSZTOF    £19.99 

 Based on one of the commandments

A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE (15) 1988  POLAND  KIESLOWSKI,KRZYSZTOF     £19.99   

 Based on one of the commandments

STORY OF SIN (15) POLAND  1975  BOROWCZYK, WALERIAN       £19.99    

 Tragic romance based on the turn-of-the-century literary classic by the Polish writer  Stefan Zeromski

THIRD PART OF THE NIGHT (15) 1971   POLAND  ZULAWSKI, ANDRZEJ  £12.99

 Award-winning debut feature is set in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II

UNITED STATES OF LOVE (18) 2016 POLAND  WASILEWSKI, TOMASZ DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

1990s, with the  decline of communism, four women who are trying to adapt to the changing times and their new-found freedom. The intertwined foursome include Agata, who becomes obsessed with a local priest, schoolteacher Iza is having an affair with a doctor, and her fellow teacher Renata yearns for a closer relationship with her neighbour Marzena

WALESA - MAN OF HOPE (12) 2013 POLAND  WAJDA, ANDRZEJ   £17.99

    Biopic about Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa the  shipyard worker turned human rights activist.

WARSAW 1944 (15) 2014 POLAND  KOMASA, JAN £19.99

 Set in WWII young soldier Stefan  joins the Warsaw Uprising to take back the city from its Nazi occupiers.

ROMANIAN DVDS

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS & 2 DAYS (PG) ROMANIA 2007 MUNGU, CRISTIAN    £19.99

 Award winning drama set in the last years of Communist-era Romania.

12:08. EAST OF BUCHAREST (15) 2006 ROMANIA  PORUMBOIU, CORNELIU       £19.99

 Porumboiu debut film sharply satires the short memories and inconsistencies of post-revolutionary Romania.

AFERIM! (18) 2015 ROMANIAN  JUDE, RADU    £19.99

 Set in 1830s in the wild Wallachian region, this Romanian  western  recreates the beliefs, ideas, values and aspirations of the era,  as a local policeman is hired to find  a Gypsy slave who had run away from a Boyar's estate.

AURORA (12) 2010 ROMANIA   PUIU, CRISTI        £15.99

    Dark thriller that provides an insight into the mind of a psychopath and questions the motives behind such a violent act.

BEYOND THE HILLS (12A) 2012  ROMANIAN   MUNGIU, CRISTIAN   

    DVD - £15.99        BLU RAY - £19.99

    Dark Romanian drama following two young women at odds with their past.

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ (15) ROMANIA 2007   MEMESCU, CRISTIAN   £9.99

 Satire of petty bureaucracy and cultural misunderstanding , set in a small Romanian town during the 1999 Kosovo conflict.

CHILDREN UNDERGROUND (E) 2001 ROMANIA BELZBERG,  EDET £14.99

  Documentary detailing the plight of the street children of Romania's capital city, Bucharest.

CHILD'S POSE (15) ROMANIA 2013   NETZER, CALIN PETER    £19.99

    A ward-winning drama that traces an overbearing mother's attempts to regain control of her son's life following his involvement in a fatal car crash.

GRADUATION (15) 2016 ROMANIA  MUNGIU, CRISTIAN   DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

  Bright 18 year old student Eliza  lives in a remote town in Transylvania. On the day before she is to sit her final exam to get a place at a prestigious British  university,  she is assaulted by a strange man near her school and loses her confidence.  Her father, a doctor,  must go against his principles and call in all the favours to help is daughter pass her exam.

NECESSARY DEATH OF CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN (15) 2013 ROMANIA  BOND, FREDRIK   

  DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99

   Surreal romantic comedy about a man returned to Romania to carry out a mother's dying wish.

DEATH OF LAZARESCU (15) 2005 ROMANIA  PUIU,  CRISTI          £19.99

 Lazarescu’s trip to the medical unit descends into a nightmare-ish journey of horrendous mistreatment  at the hands of the hospital staff.

IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE (15) 2011 ROMANIAN    SERBAN, FLORIN £15.99

    Romanian-language drama following the struggles of a teenage offender due for release.

LOVE SICK  (15) 2006   ROMANIA   GIURGIU, TUDOR    £14.99

 A lesbian relationship between a pair of college students is put to the test by a jealous male sibling.

POLICE, ADJECTIVE (15) 2009 ROMANIA  PORUMBOIU, CORNELIU    £15.99

    On orders from his superiors, a police officer is asked to investigate the case of a teenage boy, the police officer questions the ethical ramifications of his task and avoids taking the case further, knowing that conviction would lead to a prison term of up to seven years.

STUFF AND DOUGH (15) 2001 ROMANIA PUIU, CRISTI £12.99

   Ovidiu is approached by a gang to deliver a mysterious package to Bucharest for the mob.  However on the journey they being followed by a red car which  refuses to be shaken off.

TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS (15) 2010 ROMANIA  MUNTEAN, RADU    £12.99

    A  married man with a child finds himself compelled to choose between his wife and his lover in the lead up to Christmas.

SERBIAN/SLOVENIAN/YUGOSLAVIAN/CROATIAN/ARMENIAN DVDS

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS & 2 DAYS (PG) ROMANIA 2007 MUNGU, CRISTIAN    £19.99

 Award winning drama set in the last years of Communist-era Romania.

12:08. EAST OF BUCHAREST (15) 2006 ROMANIA  PORUMBOIU, CORNELIU       £19.99

 Porumboiu debut film sharply satires the short memories and inconsistencies of post-revolutionary Romanian.

BEFORE THE RAIN (15)  1984 UK  MANCHEVSKI, M.   PART MACEDONIAN PART ENGLISH   £19.99

 A three-part drama which alternates between London and Macedonia. In Part 1, 'Words', a young Macedonian monk protects a runaway Albanian girl. Part 2, 'Faces', focuses on a love affair in London.  Part 3, 'Pictures' is set back in Macedonia where a bloody ethnic conflict is brewing. Academy Award nominated for Best Foreign Film.

BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT (15) YUGOSLAVIA 1998  KUSTURICA, EMIR  £19.99

 Comedy set within a community of gypsy people.

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ (15) ROMANIA 2007   MEMESCU, CRISTIAN   £9.99

 Satire of petty bureaucracy and cultural misunderstanding , set in a small Romanian town during the 1999 Kosovo conflict.

A CALL GIRL (15)  2009  SLOVENIA   KOZOLE, DAMJAN      £15.99

    A young woman who takes on work as a call girl to help fund her studies gets caught up in a world of pimps, politicians and police as events spiral out of her control in the award-winning film.

CHILDREN UNDERGROUND (E) 2001 ROMANIA BELZBERG,  EDET £14.99

  Documentary detailing the plight of the street children of Romania's capital city, Bucharest.

CINEMA KOMUNISTO (TBA) 2010    TURAJLIC, MILA        £19.99

    Documentary about the history of Yugoslavian cinema and Marshal Josip Broz Tito's connection to it. A film lover himself, Tito supported the industry and filmmakers, enabling soldiers to work as extras and Hollywood stars and directors to use the country for location shoots. However, following Tito's death the industry went into decline with studios and workers going out of business.

The film features interview footage of Tito's personal projectionist Leka Konstantinovic, as well as other movie professionals from that prosperous time.

DEATH OF LAZARESCU (15) 2005 ROMANIA  PUIU,  CRISTI          £19.99

 Lazarescu’s trip to the medical unit descends into a nightmare-ish journey of horrendous mistreatment  at the hands of the hospital staff.

DO YOU REMEMBER DOLLY BELL?  (15) YUGOSLAVIA  1981  KUSTURICA, EMIR  SERBO-CROAT         £19.99

 Set in 1960s Sarajevo, a young man tends to his ailing father.

DONKEY (15) 2009    CROATIA    NUIC, ANTONIO      CROATIAN    £12.99

    Croatian drama following the return of a man and his young family to his home village against a backdrop of war. Boro brings his wife Jasna and son Luka back to Herzegovina for an extended family gathering. It is clear that tension exists between the three, but this is nothing compared to that amongst the family in Herzegovina.

THE LESSON (15) 2014 BULGARIA   GROZEVA, K/VALCHANOV, P £15.99   

  Struggling teacher is trying to turn her life around when she discovers there is a thief amongst one of her students and resolves to find out who it is so she can teach them a lesson.