3rd Balkan Can Kino Film Symposium
The #3BCKFS | 3rd BCK Film Symposium – Online edition 2020, organised by Balkan Can Kino, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Athen, focuses on the Balkan area, culture and art scene, and presents online screenings, available free of admission at www.balkan-can-kino.com, from the 16th to the 25th of October 2020, curated by local and international film festival teams and invited guest curators (Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, Free Zone Human Rights Film Festival, Balkans Beyond Borders, Pugnant Film Series & Zehra Cerrahoğlu) as well as the Balkan Can Kino Team. Screenings will be followed by live streamed Q&As with the filmmakers, when possible.
Parallel Events
The #3BCKFS kicks-off on the 9th of October, with the photo exhibition “Balkans Today. The present of a wounded landscape”, that will pop-up in different locations in the neighbourhood of Exarchia, featuring 26 photographers from 12 countries, that both document the present and comment on the history of the wider Balkan region.
Between the 10th to the 18th of October, the two workshops “Young Critics” & “Young Curators” will take place. A series of online presentations and interactive meetings, between selected participants and guest-speakers invited by BCK: film curators and programmers and film critics, who are active in Greece and the Balkan area.
On the 15th of October the virtual roundtable “The F* Word – Creating a chain of emerging Female Filmmakers” will host 12 female film professionals and academics, from 7 countries from the wider Balkan region, who discuss the representation of gender – in front and behind the camera – in Balkan films. The audience will have the chance to watch 3 min. excerpts of their work, alongside a Q&A.
SCREENING PROGRAMME
Friday 16.10.2020, 19.00 – Saturday 17.10.2020, 19.00
Sarajevo: State in Time ~ 48’
*Curated by BCK
Sarajevo: State in Time, 48’ 09’’ | Benjamin Jung, Théo Meurisse | Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland | 2019 | Documentary
Saturday 17.10.2020, 19.00 – Sunday 18.10.2020, 19.00
Unfolding the Layers: Shorts from Turkey ~ 95’
*Guest-Curator: Zehra Cerrahoğlu
Suffocating with Manners, 11’ 50’’ | Dir. Sertaç Koyuncu | 2019 | Fiction
Everything is Fine, 16’ 30’’ | Metehan Şereflioğlu | 2018 | Fiction
Another Matter, 12’ | Bahar Kılıç Adilçe, Hulusi Nusih Tütüncü | 2017 | Fiction
Iris, 20’ | Volkan Güleryüz | 2019 | Documentary
Under the Blanket, 14’ 55’’ | Kardelen Eren | 2019 | Fiction
Free Fun, 5’ | Fehmi Öztürk | 2019 | Fiction
Princess Ball Gown, 14’ | Dilan Engin | 2018 | Documentary
Sunday 18.10.2020, 19.00 – Monday 19.10.2020
*Curated by BCK & Guest-Curator: Athens Ethnographic Film Festival
LOO-LOO LOO-LOO, 22’ 02’’| Predrag Todorovic | Serbia | 2019 | Documentary
Marie, 32’ | Letiția Popa | Romania | 2018 | Documentary
Eighty Serbian Dinars, 11’ | Inma de Reyes | Serbia | 2019 | Documentary
Looking at Themselves, 33’ | Mihai Andrei Leaha | Romania | 2011 | Documentary
Image Acts, 30’ | Aylin Kuryel | Turkey | Documentary
Monday 19.10.2020, 19.00 – Tuesday 20.10.2020, 19.00
Balkans Beyond Borders Showcase ~75’
*Guest-Curator: Balkans Beyond Borders
Goldfish, 14’ 20’’ | Yorgos Angelopoulos | Greece | 2017 | Fiction
Who Should I Tell, 8’ 46’’ | Ardian Arrëza | Albania | 2017 | Fiction
Pink Elephant, 17’ 13’’ | Ado Hasanovic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2017 | Fiction
Lejla, 21’ 55’’ | Stijn Bouma | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2017 | Fiction
Officer, 13’ 43’’ | Stefan Zaharia | Romania | 2016 | Fiction
Tuesday 20.10.2020, 19.00 – Wednesday 21.10.2020, 19.00
Free Zone Belgrade Human Rights Film Festival Showcase ~99’
*Guest-Curator: Branka Pavlović
Adem’s Island, 13’ | Ivana Todorovic | Serbia | 2020 | Documentary
Kino-Otok, 35’ | Ivan Ramljak | Croatia | 2016 | Documentary
Unique, 29’ | Nikola Polic | Serbia | 2018 | Documentary
Bambiland, 22’ | Danilo Stanimirovic | Serbia | 2019 | Fiction
Wednesday 21.10.2020, 19.00 – Thursday 22.10.2020, 19.00
Invincible Lovers ~80’
*Curated by BCK
Invincible Lovers, 80’ | Stavros Tsiolis | 1988 | Greece | Fiction
Thursday 22.10.2020, 19.00 – Friday 23.10.2020, 19.00
is anyone watching
*Guest-Curator: Pugnant Film Series
Mimi, 14’ 26’’ | Eneos Carka | 2016 | Albania
is anyone watching, 2’ 41’’ | Sara Xhengo | 2020 | Albania
Butterfly & Mouse, 14’ 19’’ | Mira Jankova | 2019 | Bulgaria
Bu sahilde, 21’ 47’’ | Merve Kayan, Zeynep Dadak | 2010 | Turkey
I Have a Song to Sing You, 5’ 40’’ | Eluned Zoe Aiano, Alesandra Tatic, | 2019 | Serbia
Friday 23.10.2020, 19.00 – Saturday 24.10.2020, 19.00
Girls in Flower & Amygdaliá ~ 88’
*Curated by BCK
Girls in Flower, 11’ 15’’ | Konstanza Kapsali | Greece | 2019
Amygdaliá, 77’ | Christina Phoebe | Greece | 2019
Saturday 24.10.2020, 09.00 – Sunday 25.10.2020, 18.00
BOLD AND BALKAN – Animation for teenagers and adults – 24’
*Curated by BCK
Ice-cream and Freedom, 0’ 40’’ | Nэno Bэlchэv | Bulgaria | 2019
Betti, 5’ | Zsuzsanna Ács | Hungary | 2019
Elle reads on a summer day, 3’30’’ | Lamprini Loukaidi | Greece | 2018
Dollhouse, 16’ | Xenophon Tsoumas | France | 2016
Saturday 24.10.2020, 19.00 – Sunday 25.10.2020, 19.00
Room Service for Bombed Building 17’
*Curated by BCK
Room Service for Bombed Buildings, 17’ | Dionis Escorsa | 2004 | Serbia