Film Under the Stars 2018
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Saules aveugles, femme endormie
Pierre Földes / France, Canada, Netherlands, Luxembourg / 2022 / 108 min
A feature debut by composer Pierre Földes based on stories by the acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
Rimini Rimini
Ulrich Seidl / Austria, Germany, France / 2022 / 114 min / German
In the first film of his diptych on two brothers, Ulrich Seidl explores one man’s inability to escape his past. For Rimini, the controversial filmmaker behind works such as Paradise, In the Basement, and Safari, scooped the Best Feature prize at the Diagonale festival in Graz, Austria.
Hummingbirds Hummingbirds
Silvia Del Carmen Castaños, Estefanía Contreras, Miguel Drake-McLaughlin, Diane Ng / USA / 2023 / 78 min / Spanish, English
This rainbowy shiny and inspiring film reveals the possibilities of a better world if we strive for it together. Best Film at the Berlinale in the Generation 14plus section.
Down by Law Down by Law
Jim Jarmusch / USA / 1986 / 107 min / English
One of the great classics of American indie film, featuring the inimitable trio of Tom Waits, John Lurie and Roberto Benigni.
Lady Bird Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig / USA / 2017 / 94 min / English / 14+
Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home.
Leonora addio Leonora addio
Paolo Taviani / Italy / 2021 / 90 min / Italian, English
The film, which Paolo Taviani dedicated to his brother and long-time co-director Vittorio, follows the ashes of the great dramatist Luigi Pirandello on their bizarre journey to his final resting place in Sicily. It also features a cinematic interpretation of a novella written twenty days before the playwright’s death.
Die heiβen Nächte der Josefine Mutzenbacher Die heiβen Nächte der Josefine Mutzenbacher
Hans Billian / West Germany / 1981 / 93 min / German
The anonymously published pornographic novel Josefine Mutzenbacher (likely written by Felix Salten, the author of Bambi, in 1906) inspired a series of films produced by the champions of Bavarian erotic film. The film is not only a great classic from the repertoire of the former Sloga cinema but also a nationwide 1980s blockbuster that was playing in cinemas from Krško to Kranjska gora.
Force Majeure Turist / Force Majeure
Ruben Östlund / Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France / 2014 / 118 min / Swedish, English
Modri bobri: podobe avtističnega sveta Modri bobri: podobe avtističnega sveta
Slovenia / 2022 / 52 min / 12
Burning Days Kurak Günler
Emin Alper / Turkey, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, France, Croatia / 2022 / 130 min / Turkish
A dedicated young prosecutor is sent to a small and remote town in Turkey, where he encounters local bigwigs who are determined to defend their privileges by all means, even the most extreme… World premiere at Cannes, European Film Award for Best Editor and Best International Film Award in Pula.
The Lost Boys Le Paradis
Zeno Graton / Belgium, France / 2023 / 83 min / French
A powerful love story with a political charge, which meaningfully shakes the notion of freedom.
Superworm Superworm
Jac Hamman, Sarah Scrimgeour / United Kingdom / 2021 / 25 min / Dubbed / 4+
Superworm is super-long and super-strong, and is always saving the day. But who can save him when he gets too full of himself and is captured by the evil Wizard Lizard?
My Extraordinary Summer with Tess Mijn bijzonder rare week met Tess
Steven Wouterlood / Netherlands, Germany / 2019 / 82 min / Slovene subtitles, Dutch / 9+
A heart-warming tale about coming of age and friendship based on the eponymous novel by Anna Woltz. After its Berlinale premiere My Extraordinary Summer with Tess became this year’s festival favourite.
Salvador Allende Salvador Allende
Patricio Guzmán / France, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Belgium / 2004 / 100 min / Spanish, English
Trohnenje 2022 Trohnenje 2022
Tomo Križnar, Bojana Pivk Križnar / Slovenia / 2022 / 56 min / English, Arabic
Beau Is Afraid Beau Is Afraid
Ari Aster / USA, Canada, Finland, United Kingdom / 2023 / 179 min / English
Will-o’-the-Wisp Fogo-fátuo
João Pedro Rodrigues / Portugal, France / 2022 / 67 min / Portuguese, English
The year is 2069. On his deathbed, His Royal Highness Alfredo, the King without a crown, recalls his youth and the days when he dreamt of a career as a fireman. A meeting with the fireman Afonso opens up a new chapter in the lives of the two young men, a chapter full of love, desire and the will to change.
The Christmas of Solan and Ludvig Solan og Ludvig: Jul i Flåklypa
Rasmus A. Sivertsen / Norway / 2013 / 72 min / Dubbed / 5+
Father & Soldier Tirailleurs
Mathieu Vadepied / France, Senegal / 2022 / 100 min / French
1917. A Senegalese farmer joins the French army to be close to his seventeen-year-old son, who was forcibly conscripted. An epic tale of this hidden aspect of French history, and an intimate portrait of fatherly love. The opening film of the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Festival.
Carol Carol
Todd Haynes / USA, United Kingdom / 2015 / 118 min / English
In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s seminal novel The Price of Salt, Carol follows two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York.
The Tree of Life The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick / USA / 2011 / 138 min / English
From director Terrence Malick comes a thought-provoking film experience. A hymn to life, excavating answers to the most haunting and personal human questions through a kaleidoscope of the intimate and the cosmic, from the raw emotions of a family in a small Texas town to the wildest, infinite edges of space and time, from a boy’s loss of innocence to a man’s transforming encounters with awe, wonder and transcendence.