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Retrospective to include films from Danis Tanovic, Cristi Puiu, Mira Fornay and more.

A total of 50 films are to make up the retrospective Eastern Promises: Autobiography of Eastern Europe at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).

The line-up includes movies produced since 2000 in the countries that lived under Soviet influence after the Second World War and include some that were never released theatrically in Spain.

Several directors of films in the retrospective will attend the festival to present their works including Sarunas Bartas (Lithuania), Kristina Buožytė (Lithuania), Marian Crisan (Romania), Mira Fornay (Slovakia), Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic), Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland) and Anna Viduleja (Latvia).

A book will be published to accompany the retrospective with contributions from journalists and critics across Europe.

The titles are:

Kruh In Mleko / Bread And Milk

Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia) 2001

A modern classic of Slovenian cinema, the tale of a man who went out for bread and milk and lost himself to alcohol...

Long takes seem to characterize a group of films in this year’s Tiger Awards competition. Each one of these films ends of being distinct and memorable. This is the kind of fare that only programmers can identify, not those who market the films.

Nikolay and Yelena Renard’s Mama (Russia) includes long takes where the camera is entirely stationary, does not move and maintains a distance from is (only) two central characters. An overtly (some say obscenely) obese son of an obsessive mother makes his way to the store window as he seems to have fallen in love with a mannequin. He then walks into a park, at a speed that he can manage, to eat. When he comes home, we notice his mother is angry, who then bathes him, clothes him and helps him pack his suitcase because he is taking a flight the next morning. He misses...

From Veiko Õunpuu, the director of Sügisball (review), which I absolutely loved, comes his next film, The Temptation of St. Tony, which seems to have something to do with some Christian mythos I have yet to figure out.

We posted the teaser for this incredible looking film last year, and we've been in touch with the folks behind it since.. and today, we present to you the exclusive trailer for the second film out of Estonia we're covering, and something I'm highly looking forward too. It's in the spiritual vein of David Manuli's Beket, but not as abstract.

The film will be released in Estonia on October 10th and is an Estonian, Swedish (Atmo, the folks behind Metropia), and Finnish co-production.

The most stupendous and bone chilling tragedy about the agony and decline of one middle-level manager.

Tony develops an aversion to gushing claims of his goodness and the issue starts to haunt him.

While the music in the teaser may make this sound whimsical, the religious aspects and the storyline remind me of Alejandro Jodorowsky, so I'm pretty excited about seeing more. Directed by Veiko Õunpuu, it draws inspiration from the legend of Saint Anthony, using a contemporary setting and storyline to reflect on goodness: Can someone become a saint today and be sincerely and selflessly good? Shot in high contrast black and white, the film looks stunning, and there's some stills here if you want to check them out.

"The most stupendous and bone chilling tragedy about the agony and decline of one middle-level manager.

Tony develops an aversion to gushing claims of his goodness and the issue starts to haunt him. Is he good? Why should one be good? Whom would it benefit? While Tony thinks and thinks, he is forced to fire one thousand employees under his command, to be...