Film Under the Stars 2018
The Last Ice Hunters Zadnji ledeni lovci
Jure Breceljnik, Rožle Bregar / Slovenia / 2017 / 72 min / English, Danish / 15+
The documentary feature film explores the 4000 year old tradition of Inuit hunters in eastern Greenland, whose unique culture in an unforgiving natural environment is today threatened with extinction.
Faces Places Visages Villages
Agnès Varda, JR / France / 2017 / 89 min / Slovene subtitles, French
Agnès Varda joins teams up with artist street JR, who shares her love for regular people and their stories to create a warm and soulful road movie – a moving meditation on friendship, transience and the power of art. Winner for Best Documentary at Cannes, and nominated for an Academy Award.
Moomins and the Winter Wonderland Muumien taikatalvi
Ira Carpelan, Jakub Wronski / Finland, Poland / 2017 / 82 min / Dubbed / 4+
It’s winter time in Moomin Valley, and Moomintroll wants to explore the winter and to his great surprise he gets to see the magic of Christmas.
I am William Jeg er William
Jonas Elmer / Denmark / 2017 / 83 min / Slovene subtitles, Danish / 8+
A typically Danish children’s film, that’s both funny and serious, and has a real sparkle in its eye.
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Kaspar Jancis, Henry Nicholson, Riho Unt / Estonia, Ireland, United Kingdom, Belgium / 2018 / 76 min / Slovene subtitles, English / 7+
Girl Asleep Girl Asleep
Rosemary Myers / Australia / 2015 / 77 min / Slovene subtitles, English / 15+
Red Dog: True Blue Red Dog: True Blue
Kriv Stenders / Australia / 2016 / 88 min / Slovene subtitles, English / 9+
Sicilian Ghost Story Sicilian Ghost Story
Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza / Italy, Switzerland, France / 2017 / 132 min / Slovene subtitles, Italian / 15+
Based on true events, writer-director duo Fabio Grassadonia and Antonia Piazza tell a story about the indestructible power of love, whose fantastical world beats against the dark reality of mafia kidnappings in this breathtaking film.
The Family Družina
Rok Biček / Slovenia, Austria / 2017 / 107 min / Slovene / 15+
Rok Biček (Class Enemy) records 10 years in the life of a young man growing up in an extraordinary family.
Consequences Posledice
Darko Štante / Slovenia, Austria / 2018 / 95 min / Slovene
Eighteen year old Andrej’s antisocial behaviour lands him in a youth correctional facility. While he fights for a place in his social group, he gets close to Željko, the gang’s informal leader. But when Željko catches wind of Andrej’s secret attraction to him, he begins to take advantage. Andrej must decide whether to choose Željko and his wild lifestyle, or to remain true to himself.
Winter Flies Všechno bude
Olmo Omerzu / Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland / 2018 / 85 min
Road movie about boys’ friendship and their insuppressable desire to experience a real life adventure. Czech based Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu (Family Film) won Best Director at Karlovi Vari for his third feature film.
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Morgan Neville / USA / 2021 / 119 min / English
The Tribe Plemja
Miroslav Slabošpicki / United Kingdom / 2014 / 132 min / No dialogue
Debut feature by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, an award-winning Ukrainian director, The Tribe chronicles teenage violence and the bitter struggle to establish one’s identity in an alien environment. Shot entirely in sign language with neither subtitles nor voice-over.
Never Look Away Werk ohne Autor
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck / Germany / 2018 / 188 min / Russian, German
Nominated for the Foreign Language Academy Award and Golden Globe, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s epic drama encompasses three decades of German history and draws on the liberating power of art in this tense and exciting family saga.
Serenity Serenity
Steven Knight / USA / 2019 / 106 min / English
Baker Dill is the captain of a fishing boat on an idyllic tropical island. But when his ex-wife unexpectedly appears to make a dark plea, he slowly discovers that nothing is as it appears at first sight… A furtive and sexy neo-noir from Steven Knight, director of Locke and writer of Stephen Frears’s Dirty Pretty Things and Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises.
Infinite Football Fotbal infinit
Corneliu Porumboiu / Romania / 2018 / 73 min / Romanian
Master of the Romanian New Wave Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest; Police, Adjective) made this characteristically insightful and witty documentary about a dreamer who wants to change the rules of the game.
Uncle Geza Goes to Zaturci Stric Geza ide v Zaturce
Jože Glažar, Štefan Kardoš / Slovenia / 2019 / 48 min / Slovene
At War En guerre
Stéphane Brizé / France / 2018 / 113 min / French
Shot in documentary style, Stephane Brize’s latest feature film hits at the heart of the enraged strikes of factory workers and uncovers the cruel mechanisms of a system uncaring towards the rights of the little man.
The Beach Bum The Beach Bum
Harmony Korine / USA / 2019 / 96 min / English
A rebellious stoner named Moondog lives life by his own rules.
Eldorado Eldorado
Markus Imhoof / Switzerland, Germany / 2018 / 92 min / Italian, German, English, Arabic, French
Eldorado gives a stark picture of the ruthless treatment that remains insensitive to human tragedy: a crisis caused by economic imbalances, which turned the rich countries of the North into an El Dorado for those less fortunate to try and reach at all costs.
Our Children À perdre la raison
Joachim Lafosse / Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, France / 2012 / 111 min / French
Mala prodajalka sonca La petite vendeuse de soleil
Djibril Diop Mambéty / Senegal, Switzerland, France / 1999 / 45 min / Slovene subtitles, English Subtitles, Wolof / 9+
A hymn to the courage of street children and a whimsical fable, full of hope and humanity.
Wings of Desire Der Himmel über Berlin
Wim Wenders / Germany / 1987 / 128 min / Hebrew, Japanese, German, Spanish, Turkish, English, French
Wim Wenders’s hypnotic city symphony is a melancholic elegy to a still divided Berlin, and marked the director’s homecoming as his first German film following eight years in America.
One second Yi miao zhong
Zhang Yimou / China / 2020 / 104 min / Chinese
The last years of the Cultural Revolution. A political prisoner escapes a labour camp and goes to the village cinema to watch a newsreel in which his daughter appears for a second. But the crucial film roll is stolen in front of his eyes by a homeless girl… The most visible representative of the China’s Fifth Generation filmmakers, Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern), celebrates the power of film and cinema in one of his best works of the last decades.