Colourful Creatures

Sunday, 15. 02. 2026 / 16:30 / Main Hall

On 12 September 1919, a troop of some three hundred soldiers under the leadership of the flamboyant war-loving Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio swooped into the Northern-Adriatic port town of Fiume, now Rijeka, wanting to annex the city to Italy. Over the course of the next 16 months, during what is regarded as one of the most bizarre militant sieges of all time his official photography team captured over 10,000 images. A century later, Igor Bezinović orchestrates a direct-action history lesson focused on the siege and its modern-day implications.

Sunday, 15. 02. 2026 / 18:00 / Small Hall

With disarming wit, the Dalai Lama reflects on balancing millennia-old Tibetan Buddhist traditions with the contemporary values of our globalised society that now struggles to overcome violence and war while standing on the brink of environmental collapse.

Sunday, 15. 02. 2026 / 19:00 / Main Hall

Christian Petzold once again explores themes of loss, memory, and identity – this time in a mysterious family psychodrama, a modern fairy tale for adults, in which two women try to piece together the fragments of their broken lives.