EX-YU Script Lab with Dejan Dukovski

 Josh, a 6 y.o. kid living with his mother and sister, discovers that for each tooth lost he receives five dollars. He makes a quick calculation and understands that an entire bike is sitting in his mouth. 

 On a street corner a mysterious conversation among three young men at a street stalls. Meanwhile a traffic accident on a motorbike. The night brings together a sketch, a multicolor frame of reality​. 

 Patriarchal masculinity seems to catch its last breath in the sun. A story about a cold relationship between a father and his son. Their bond, plagued by indifference, disintegrates completely. 

 The Van finally stops, the doors open and the Son comes out alive. A few more fights and he will be able to pay his way out of Albania, and hopefully, take his Father with him.  

 Seventeen year old Irish immigrant Kat struggles to adjust to her new life in the UK. 

 Renaud is 85 years old and lives in Paris with his trusty wheelchair-caregiver. He is a loner, creature of habit, peacefully blocked for years on the top floor of a Montmartre building. But what if a new woman, moving into the apartment across the street, suddenly messes up his routine? What if both start feeling an uncontrollable desire to no longer live in solitude? 

 A principal and teacher conspire to protect their students from an invisible predator lurking inside their school. Based on a true story. 

 A tender story about finding love even amid utter decay. 

 On a family trip to observe the shooting stars, Chloé, a withdrawn teenager, discovers a dazzling attraction for her mother’s new boyfriend. 

 Cesare, a tourist who has just arrived in the village, encounters Leonardo, a shepherd’s son. Cesare takes Leonardo under his wing and attempts to initiate him into his strategic world of seducing women. 

 The polarization of Brazilian society is brought into painfully sharp focus in a single long shot, during which a street interview descends into a heated exchange with passersby. Are we still listening to each other? 

 Mti (29), an haitian inmigrant, after years of saving money during his stay in Chile decides to return with his wife and daughter in Haiti. However, his plans will be truncated by the unexpected theft of his money. 

 A small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash. 

While Germany sits as one of the major democratic models, an ex-prisoner of the Stasi delivers from his former cell a frightening testimony that questions the sustainability of our contemporary democracies. 

 Film about encountering the unknown and the relationship between imagination and reality. Built on interviews with exiled North Koreans, who describe what they imagined the outside world to be like, based on their experiences of watching smuggled western fiction films. Alternating documentary footage and visual effects, the film raises the question of how reality is defined and what we wish to believe in. The Fantastic reverses the set-up where westerners are peeping in on the everyday life of the closed-off state. In this film, it is the North Koreans who direct their curiosity at the outside world. 

 Life is going on in Dakhla, one of the Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria, forgotten for 45 years. The celebration of a film festival, the Fisahara, breaks the monotony. The event ends, life (and oblivion) continues. 

 Bea has been afraid of water ever since her little brother was taken by the flood. Her father, Karl Klingert, has completely devoted himself to creating the world’s first atmospheric diving suit. Soon, the suit will be presented to the public for the first time. If it goes well, Klingert will win a grant and move with his family to England. Bea thinks her brother is playing hide-andseek and so will never find them if they leave. She believes the diving suit is a monster that has possessed her father. With the help of a new friend – Peter, a young scamp from the riverside – Bea tries to destroy the monster before her family leaves the city of Wrocław forever. 

 Anna, a middle-aged single mother, lives in a small industrial town in war-torn Eastern Ukraine. She works in a meat processing plant, lives in a rundown apartment and dreams for a better life for herself and her 16-year-old daughter.                                       Desperate for a change, she is lured by a radio advertisement to attend a party organized for foreign men who are touring the country, searching for love. Despite not having been out for years she decides to take part in the event.                                                     At the party, Anna is confronted with the realities of old age, with the American men's real intentions, and by her underaged daughter who is also attending the event. Both mother and daughter realize the absurdity and indignity of the situation and abandon their dream for a better life.
 

 When a kind-hearted prison officer (Oscar Isaac) is transferred to the letter room, he soon gets involved in an inmate's personal affairs...  

 After an unsuccessful attempt to renew his car registration, Dejan falls in a bureaucratic trap that tests his determination to be a responsible father. 

 Tired of his turbulent family life and caught between identities, Adam seeks out an alternative arrangement in hopes of finding his place. 

 In a small mountain village, every summer the grandchild comes to his grandparents, where his days are immersed in the scent of the summer. His grandfather is playing kaval. The boy meets the kaval and the magic of its sound. What's hidden in this long pipe? Is the music inside? So he looks through the kaval toward the sky and feels the freedom and the joy of life. Unknowingly, he carries this moment within even when he grows up and gets alienated in the everyday life routines. Slowly the tiredness from the city reminds him of the forgotten... 

 Tunis, November 2019. A group of women is gathered at Saïda’s, the hairdresser, on the eve of the presidential election. The salon is transformed into a town square, mirroring the internal turmoil of the country. In this female sanctuary, we get an intimate look at the county’s teenage democracy. 

 Dora turns 16. Strangely, for some time now, she has been eating like an ogre and locking herself with her friends for long hours around a strange thing, stirring up her mother's sick curiosity. 

 During the presidential elections in Mauritania, held in 2019, political leader Biram Dah Abeid, with the support of his people, is fighting to eliminate the scourge of slavery in his country. 

 Eight colleagues fish on a mountain lake. Among them, Mehdi and Gilles drift on a separate boat. Mehdi takes advantage of being isolated to indulge. He knows that several positions will be eliminated from their teams. Then one of their colleagues falls into the water... and doesn't go up. Then a second one disappears. There's something underneath that's trying to get them to the depths. The two men will do everything to reach the land. But the lake is against it.