“…Verzio FF Submission A short film portrait of László Végel, a prize-winning Hungarian writer from the multi-ethnic town of Novi Sad (Újvidék), Serbia, just over the border from Hungary. …”

“…Duration: 00:57:00 The film evokes the events of the 1986, November assembly meeting of the Writers' Association through the recollections of the main participants: Gábor Albert, János Berecz, Csoóri Sándor, István Eörsi and Gyula Fekete.…”

“…Story of a "worker's brigade" attempting to produce a play by a Soviet writer on the Hungarian stage. Their conversations about censorship and brutal law enforcement may have had something to do with the difficulty the film had being released.…”

“…Not unlike Jonathan Demme's "Swimming to Cambodia", Broomfield's unique film presents his interpretation of the inimitable Spalding Gray's impressionistic, riotous and insightful one man show detailing an artist's devastating struggle with writer's block and teh surreal, hilariously monstruous turn of events it precipitates.…”

“…Duration: 02:15:00 This is the story of a writer's love that spans over many decades. An elderly writer is visiting his wife at a medical establishment to give her a copy of his latest book. …”

“…Soros Documentary Fund Film about Georgi Markov, the Bulgarian writer-dissident, who was murdered in London, poisoned with a ricin-containing pellet that was fired into his leg, most likely by the Bulgarian secret police. …”

“…Verzio FF Submission The protagonists of this documentary are 25 year-old students of Bamako University, Mali, who established a club called Yambo Ouologuem, inspired by the Renaudot prize winner Malian writer. Identifying with Ouologuem's view of white people and African history, they analyze the past of black and white history as well as the future of Mali.…”

“…Verzio FF Submission A film about the prospects of Ukrainian art presented through the portrait and work of various artists: director Roman Balayan making his new film “Paradise Birds”, Andriy Zholdak at a theatre rehearsal, or writer Oksana Zabuzhko meeting her readers. A reflection on the state of contemporary Ukrainian cult rural life.…”

“…Through a montage of rare archival footage, personal photos, and text from the diaries themselves, the film tells the story of a group of brave, young writers who refused to quietly disapear.…”

“…In 1960 he watches "Zezowate Szczęście" and feels betrayed – the writer to whom he told his story has grossly distorted it.…”

“…The successful writer Dobrin Iliev must take part in a literary competition as a chief of jury. …”

“…Here, in the 1930s, famous philosophers, scholars, engineers and writers spent the last days of their lives. At the end of October and beginning of November 1937 more than one thousand prisoners were taken from the Solovetskii islands to the mainland and executed. …”

“…Nowadays Eritrea is an independent country, but the writer and singer of this song, Tewolde Redda, seems to be forgotten: alone with his memories, he lives in exile, refusing to sing his famous song again.…”

“…Soros Documentary Fund “Voices” is an anthropological examination of the lives of the Khanty people, as seen through the eyes and fate of Yeremey Aipin, a Khanty writer. The filmmaker concentrates on one period of Yeremey Aipin’s life: when he was elected at the last Supreme Soviet and at the first State Duma, and attempted to fight for Western Siberia’s people’s rights from the legislative point of view, at the State level. …”

“…The mood is influenced by the work of Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, whose poetics form a link to impressive insights into a slumbering corner of the countryside. …”

“…A musical fairy tale, inspired by children’s stories written by known Romanian writers, among them Ion Creanga, Cezar Petrescu, Petre Ispirescu. …”

“…Director Heinz Schirk and writer Paul Mommertz use actual notes from the meeting, along with letters written by Hermann Goering and Adolf Eichmann and testimony by Eichmann at his 1961 trial in Israel to recreate the shocking events of this meeting.…”

“…Duration: 01:00:00 Writer Dobrica Cosic’s circles and the Praxis group – the former open the Serbian national issue, while the latter stand up for the Yugoslav idea. …”

“…Verzio FF Submission “With Extreme Cruelty” presents the sincere and moving confession of the well-known Bulgarian writer, playwright and editor Svoboda Buchvarova. …”

“…One of the screenplay writers was Eugen Barbu, a prominent literary figure in communist times, and one of the initiators of the Romanian protochronist movement.…”