“There is what Congolese novelist In Koli Jean Bofane refers to in the film as an ever-evolving 'algorithm of Congo Inc': an algorithm perfected somewhere between Washington, London, Brussels and Kigali, where Congo Inc. has become the global supplier delivering strategic minerals to take war into space. The thesis of Congo Inc. is that every major war largely consumed and was able to be fought thanks to minerals that were provided by the Congo. In the First World War it was rubber; during the Second World War the high-grade uranium; in Vietnam it was the copper of the endless bullets that were shipped there; and now the strategic materials to take war into space.” (Johan Grimonprez)
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
United Nations, 1961: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez explores a moment when jazz, colonialism, and espionage collided.
What's On
Retrospective: David Lynch II. - Dynamic 01 Retrospektiva: David Lynch II. - Dynamic 01
David Lynch
Friday, 22. 08. 2025 / 18:00 / Main Hall
The Darkened Room, Boat, Lamp, Out Yonder: Neighbor Boy, Industrial Soundscape, Bug Crawls, Intervalometer Experiments
Additional Screening
Parthenope Parthenope
Paolo Sorrentino
Friday, 22. 08. 2025 / 20:15 / Main Hall
Born in the 1950s in the sea in front of her home villa, Parthenope seeks happiness in the long summers of her youth and falls in love with her native Naples and its many picturesque characters. Paolo Sorrentino has created a seductive epic about a modern heroine’s journey beyond “great beauty” and “youth”.
FEXXX: Possible Pleasures - Rekindling Erotic Imagination and Radical Possibility Through Queer Feminist Cinema FEXXX: Možni užitki - spodžiganje erotične domišljije in radikalnih možnosti skozi kvir-feministični film
različni avtorji
Friday, 22. 08. 2025 / 23:59 / Main Hall
The Lesbian Alien Fisting Operetta on Venus, Lasse Långström; The Confession, Ursinae Vespéral; Genderfluid, La Fille Renne, Laure Giappiconi, Elisa Monteil; The Princess and the Peacock, Daniel Baker-Wells; The Third World After the Sun, Tiagx Vélez, Analú Laferal; Planetary Loss, Ceza Bularca