Feature films

Two very similar families are trying to get along living in a new neighborhood being built near a complex of prefab apartment blocks. At first the two couples like each other, but their fondness slowly grows into hatred. One of the reasons for this is their desire to be different from each other – but the more they try to differ from their neighbors, the more they become identical both psychologically and physically. This is because they share an identical concept of "being different." Their mutual irritation turns to full-on hatred and they make an attempt at mutual destruction. Their homes, which are set on fire, are not the only damages caused by these attempts: the wife of one of the families and the husband of the other also fall victims in the war. As they sit watching the smoking ruins of their homes, the surviving man and woman quickly discover that they were made for each other.

Alexei Uchitel

We could treat the movie as a tragicomic Balkan-themed Eastern, a story about friendship, love and tolerance and about the impossibility to have them all at once, especially in the Balkans. Lack of harmony results from almost as many reasons as the good intentions that pave the way to it. Egocentrism and chaotic mind or hot temper as well as not thinking twice before acting leads to a tragic mistake and, typically of these lands, it is the most innocent of them all that suffers.

A young man has trouble communicating with people and is seeing a shrink. He falls in love at first sight, then meets three friends and joins their small community. The four youngsters naively decide to make some easy money by blackmailing an elderly woman. Little do they know that a stranger with a shady past and problematic present will turn their lives upside down.

Through two unique female personas the film suggests a metaphysical idea of the present as ever recurring, since the temptations, which the human soul faces, are always the same. But any choice can be made only after the experience of the past is passed on and shared with a kindred spirit in the present. Such is the nature of the relationship between Adriana, the femme fatale of 1938, and the innocent Yura of 2008.