Film Under the Stars 2018
Dozens of Norths Dozens of Norths
Koji Yamamura / Japan, France / 2021 / 64 min / No dialogue
North is everywhere solitary. Here is all North. This is a record of the people I met in these Norths. However, my memory is fragmented and does not get the point at all. Now I’m starting to wonder my efforts came to nothing. I’m just getting the occasional recognition of the existence of the world through the dull pain that changes shape little by little.
Nayola Nayola
José Miguel Ribeiro / Portugal, Netherlands, France, Belgium / 2022 / 90 min / Portuguese
Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena, the grandmother, her daughter Nayola and her granddaughter Yara.
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood Savvusanna sõsarad
Anna Hints / Estonia, Iceland, France / 2023 / 89 min / Estonian
In the Estonian countryside, a group of women meet in a smoke sauna by a lake in the woods. In this intimate, deeply empathetic debut documentary by Anna Hints, in the safe darkness of the traditional smoke sauna, they share their deepest secrets and most personal experiences. Winner of the European Film Award for Best Documentary.
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier
Florin Şerban / Romania / 2010 / 94 min / Romanian
Creepy Kurîpî: Itsuwari no rinjin
Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Japan / 2016 / 130 min / Japanese
Full of surprising twists and turns, the screen adaptation of the award-winning mystery novel by Yutaka Maekawa lives up to the Japanese writer’s reputation as a master of suspense.
Evil Does Not Exist Aku wa sonzai shinai
Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Japan / 2023 / 106 min / Japanese
The ecological health of a small Japanese rural community is threatened by a new glamping development. But evil is done by ordinary people with reasons for their incomprehensible urge to destroy.
Family Therapy Odrešitev za začetnike
Sonja Prosenc / Slovenia, Serbia, Norway, Italy, Croatia / 2024 / 122 min / Slovene, English, French
Family Therapy revolves around a nouveau riche family living in a glass house, exuding an air of detached superiority. This serves as a satirical backdrop for a humorous reimagining of the premise of Pasolini’s Teorema: a young stranger arrives at the house, disrupting the delicate balance of the family’s dynamics, revealing a world of chaos and dysfunctional relationships hidden beneath its surface … With a tragicomical tone, the film explores contemporary social issues. Family Therapy had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Scorched Earth Verbrannte Erde
Thomas Arslan / Germany / 2024 / 101 min / German
A minimalist crime thriller set on the nocturnal streets of contemporary Berlin, much like its protagonist: laconic, efficient, and very, very cool.
The Shrouds The Shrouds
David Cronenberg / Canada, France / 2024 / 119 min / English
A dark but also humorous film about the corporeality of mourning, made by David Cronenberg after the death of his wife of many years. Starring Vincent Cassel as the director’s alter ego.
On the Adamant Sur l’Adamant
Nicolas Philibert / France, Japan / 2022 / 109 min / French
French documentary film maker Nicolas Philbert takes us on an unusual ship, used as a day-care centre for adults with mental disabilities. Surrounded by incredibly talented people with sparkling personalities, we can contemplate community, freedom and the importance of art in everyday life. The warm and subtle film that breaks downs the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’ won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale.
20,000 Species of Bees 20.000 especies de abejas
Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren / Spain / 2023 / 129 min / Spanish, French
Centring on a family faced with a gender crisis of their eight-year-old son, 20,000 Species of Bees is a study into interpersonal relationships that sheds light on the burning issues of gender and identity from a personal perspective and using metaphors from the natural world.
The Volta Cinema Kino Volta
Martin Turk / Slovenia, Italy / 2024 / 85 min / Slovene, Italian, English
In 1909, in Trieste, the main port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four bold entrepreneurs met with a young English teacher, James Joyce. He proposed that they invest in the first permanent cinema in Ireland: Kino Volta. Martin Turk’s film is not a historical documentary about the birth of cinema but a nostalgic and playful evocation of the spirit of those who were part of the story.
Maldoror Maldoror
Fabrice du Welz / Belgium, France / 2024 / 155 min / French
Belgium, 1995. The disappearance of two girls shakes the public and triggers a media storm. An idealistic but impulsive young policeman, Paul Chartier, joins a secret unit called Maldoror, tasked with monitoring a suspect previously convicted of sexual assaults. When the operation fails, Chartier, frustrated by police inefficiency and the legal system, embarks on a lone pursuit that gradually turns into an obsession…
The Elephant: My First Cinema Experience (2017) Slonov Prvič v kino (2017)
various / 33 min / 3+
For children aged 4 to 7.
The Liverpool Goalie Keeper’n til Liverpool
Arild Andresen / Norway / 2010 / 90 min / Norwegian, Slovene subtitles / 8+
The Roundup: Punishment Beomjoidosi 4
Heo Myeong-haeng / South Korea / 2024 / 109 min / Korean
Iconic action star Don Lee returns to take down another vicious villain and break up a cybercrime ring. It’s the fourth installment in what has turned out to be one of the most successful franchises in South Korean cinema.
Love Is Not an Orange Love Is Not an Orange
Otilia Babara / Belgium, Netherlands, France, Moldova / 2022 / 73 min / Romanian
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moldovan women left in droves for work in Western Europe, leaving their children to be cared for by their relatives. They sent money and other goods home, and in return, their children sent videotaped messages. These intimate recordings testify to the painful void left in the lives of children by mothers forced to leave their homeland to provide a better life for their families.
Wind, Talk to Me Vetre, pričaj sa mnom
Stefan Đorđević / Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia / 2025 / 100 min / Serbian
On a mission to complete a cinematic tribute to his deceased mother, Serbian director Stefan Đorđević looks into loss and the grieving process in a struggle to come to terms with his own bereavement.