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- Thousands of men, women and children struggle to get into Europe as a comfortable English family leave, on what appears to be a holiday.
- Two men, a former ministry chief and his business partner, have less than 48 hours to save their jobs and reputations. An absurd chain of events threatens to destroy everyone in this fast paced crime thriller.
- Ohrid, 4th of may 1980. Marko, son of the cook in the Marshal's villa, get's a chance to try the food that has been cooked in front of his eyes all his life.
- In northern Albania, two innocent children experience the effects of warfare, and meanwhile in London a successful architect shares his story and the influences for his new project which shelters thousands of Syrian refugees in the UK.
- Interregnum by Adrian Paci assembles fragments extracted from videos of official state archives and national television broadcasts documenting the funerals of communist dictators of different nationalities and eras. The grainy images show endless rows of people moving in unison, seemingly without a purpose, their faces laden with expressions of grief. Shifting from close-ups to wider views of the masses, we become witnesses of a crescendo where the manipulation of these masses and the depersonalization of individual identity become increasingly evident. The dissolution of the boundaries between private and public life, intrinsic to dictatorships, transforms individuals into members of a "political body," that thinks and acts in uniformity with the greater action imposed by the regime's ideology. The film investigates the nature of this political body, ranging from Asia to Europe and covering almost the entirety of the twentieth century from Lenin's death to that of the Albanian dictator, Enver Hoxha.
- The complexity of expressing the narrative and its inmost being in words is reflected in Paci's video work Prova. In this film, he takes his earlier work Turn On (2004) as a starting point and works with the same protagonists, job-seekers from Shkodër in Albania. The backdrop is the concrete spine of a building that was never completed, in the middle stands a group of men who seem to be silently waiting. It is dark and the only source of light is the town's street lamps. A whole night long, from sunset to sunrise, the protagonists look at each other, smile, or fall asleep on their feet. The perceived silence is interrupted from time to time by the repeated call of the words "Prova, prova" ("Test, test") spoken by the men into the microphones they hold as if at a sound check... As soon as one of the men stops talking the narration is continued with glances, poses, and gestures. Their body language and their faces marked by life tell a story that words cannot express.