The Triumphs of Maryna Ajaja
Films that the late great programmer Maryna Ajaja brought to the Seattle International Film Festival.
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- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsTihana LazovicGoran MarkovicNives IvankovicThree different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers - and the enduring strength - of forbidden love.
- DirectorDanis TanovicStarsSnezana VidovicIzudin BajrovicVedrana BozinovicThe major hotel Europe in Sarajevo will receive an important visit on the anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, attack that triggered World War. As the manager of the place waiting to Jacques, a special French guest, workers in the kitchen preparing a strike because they have spent months without pay and journalist records a television show on the roof.
- DirectorMaryna Er GorbachStarsOksana CherkashynaSergey ShadrinOleg ShcherbinaAfter flight MH17 crashes in eastern Ukraine, violent tensions disrupt the lives of an expecting couple living in Donetsk.
- DirectorsNana EkvtimishviliSimon GroßStarsIa ShugliashviliMerab NinidzeBerta KhapavaA woman separates from her family after 52 years in a multi-generational Georgian household to begin her own adventure. To the shock of her relatives, she leaves everything behind to start again.
- DirectorHana JusicStarsMia PetricevicNiksa ButijerArijana CulinaWhen Marijana's dominant father falls seriously ill, she takes over the role as head of the family. The new power constellation also gives her new freedom that she has to find out a way to deal with.
- DirectorsKristina GrozevaPetar ValchanovStarsStefan DenolyubovMargita GoshevaAlexandra AngelovaA reclusive Bulgarian railway trackman finds millions of cash spilled on the tracks and turns them in to the police. When the transport ministry's head of PR Julia Staikova decides to use him as a diversion from a corruption scandal, his simple life falls victim to the grinder of bureaucracy.
- DirectorAlyona DavydovaStarsPolina GukhmanAnastasiya MelnikovaKirill PolukhinAn ambulance driver in a small Russian town becomes inspired to make some life changes after he unexpectedly becomes the temporary guardian of a 7-year- old girl.
- DirectorErmek TursynovStarsMikhail KarpovRoza KhayrullinaErzhan NurymbetYermek Tursunov (Kelin, The Old Man) completes his trilogy about Kazakh identity, in which an orphaned young boy takes to the mountains and lives among a pack of wolves in the days before WWII.
- DirectorEmir BaigazinStarsOmar AdilovTimur AidarbekovMadiyar AripbayIn a godforsaken Kazakh village four adolescent teenagers try to find their place in the world.
- DirectorLaila PakalninaStarsAntons GraudsVilis DaudzinsWiktor ZborowskiPropaganda story about a 'Young Pioneer' Pavel Morozov, who denounced his father to Stalin's secret police and was in turn killed by his own family.
- DirectorAnne FontaineStarsLou de LaâgeAgata BuzekAgata Kulesza1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.
- DirectorNurbek EgenStarsMaral KoichukaraevaCecile PlageAtai OmurbekovKyrgyzstan. Ascel is engaged to Sultan, the local Mr Big with the grandest house. This looks like a palace to Ascel, who lives in a hovel with her drunkard father. She doesn't love Sultan, but she wants a better life. She is having an affair with Marat and expecting his child. She marries Sultan but immediately leaves for Moscow for an abortion, and starts living with gastarbeiters. She sells her unborn child to Virginie, a French woman. She becomes housemaid to (and then lover of) a rich New Russian, Arkady. Marat appears, starts a fight with Arkady and gets arrested. Ascel decides to go to France and stay with Virginie. But she discovers that the latter has a mental disease. Then the baby arrives...
- DirectorLevan TutberidzeStarsLevan DoborjginidzeMisha MeskhiNutsa KukhianidzeA group of teenage boys from Tbilisi take a trip to Azerbaijan to buy drugs, and end up fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh War, when they are captured by Azerbaijani militants, with one subsequently being captured by the Armenians. During the course of events, the main character has flashbacks to his relationship with his father, as well as a depressive prostitute.
- DirectorSerik AprimovStarsRaikhan AitkozhanovaKidiraliev DogdurbekErke DzhumakmatovaErken, a boy of 12, living with his mother is visited by a hunter. Erken steals the latter's horse and his gun to hold up a shop. Now a fugitive, the hunter gives Erken a choice: to go to prison or live with him in the mountains.
- DirectorsPeter BrosensJessica WoodworthStarsBatzul KhayankhyarvaaTsetsegee ByambaBanzar DamchaaSet in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad confronted with his destiny after animals fall victim to a plague which threatens to eradicate nomadism.
- DirectorTimur BekmambetovStarsKonstantin KhabenskyMariya PoroshinaVladimir MenshovWhen Anton, a Warrior of Light, is falsely accused of murdering some vampires, he embarks on a journey to find the real killer and search for an ancient object that has the power to alter destiny.
- DirectorCsaba BollókStarsMária VargaRózsika VargaMarian Rusache
- DirectorDorota KedzierzawskaStarsDanuta SzaflarskaKrzysztof GlobiszMarta WalderaWhen the witty old lady Aniela finally gets rid of her last lodger, she thinks it's finally time for her to feel at home in her beautiful old wooden house. But her greedy son and neighbours have other plans.
- DirectorValeriy TodorovskiyStarsFedor BondarchukAleksey SerebryakovEvgenia BrikYoung and talented man has a dream - to become a successful DJ. But on his way to fame he takes the wrong step, that may be fatal...
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsAndrzej ChyraMaja OstaszewskaArtur ZmijewskiAn examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
- DirectorChris KrausStarsPaula BeerEdgar SelgeTambet TuiskIn the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda von Siering (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. The von Siering family home is a character in its own right, a hulking, neoclassical manor that hovers on stilts above the sea. Oda arrives there bearing her mother's coffin and a gift requested by her surgeon father: a jarred, two-headed fetus to add to his laboratory of gruesome curiosities. Ebbo von Siering (Edgar Selge) sees himself in his daughter when she calmly and expertly learns to suture the corpse of a cat. What he fails to recognize - and what Oda luckily understands - is that their interest in science is their only similarity. His dedication to experimentation is linked to an appalling obsession with power and destruction, while Oda is genuinely curious about life. Her quick, quiet intelligence complements her humanity and her lucid understanding of right and wrong. When she strays from a family picnic and discovers a badly wounded Estonian anarchist, she helps him without a second thought, smuggling him into her father's lab and putting her new surgical skills to good use. As their illicit friendship deepens, family turmoil escalates and war closes in. The safe haven of the community collapses, forcing Oda's family to make impossible choices.
- DirectorJuanita WilsonStarsNatasha PetrovicFedja StukanJelena JovanovaA young female teacher from Sarajevo who travels to a remote village. Soon after arriving, the village is attacked by a group of soldiers. The men are killed, the women separated from the children, and placed in a makeshift brothel.