In Absentia

I dream about the beast that lives at the bottom of the lake. Only few people have seen it. The air freezes when it’s is near you because it’s heart is too cold. They say you should not look it in the eyes, because your heart will freeze as well. Only one woman has looked the beast in the eyes, but her heart is sad and frozen long time ago.

An old woman suffering from dementia thinks she is twenty years old and is about to run away with her lover. How does this illness affect her son?

The friendship of two adolescent girls is threatened the moment they have to face the dire repercussions of their manipulative behaviour.

Without Love is a story about the things left unsaid. Ana and Marta are two best childhood friends. They decide to spend some time together in the weekend house by the lake they used to go to when they were children, a day before Ana’s wedding. After an unexpected “drunk kiss” the friends face the fact that their friendship will never be the same again.

A young Italian actress goes to visit her lover in Macedonia during the world war two. Her playfulness and nonchalant behavior leads to a tragic end.

Adela (11), a Romani girl from Skopje, lives in a ghetto with her mother and older sister, Zara. When her family faces a financial crisis, Adela’s mother is sure that the only solution is to sell Zara at the bridal market. Adela can’t accept this destiny for her older sister and takes matters into her own hands. After a few unsuccessful attempts to find a job, she decides to join a skateboarding contest even though, in her culture, skateboarding is frowned upon for girls. The only way she can learn how to skate and have a chance to win the contest is if she befriends the gang of skater girls from her school. Adela starts navigating between the two different cultures, where she finds herself caught between two very different models of femininity.