Film Under the Stars 2018
One Battle After Another One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson / USA / 2025 / 162 min / English, Spanish
The latest film by Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master, Phantom Thread) follows Bob, a former member of a revolutionary group who cut ties with the world sixteen years ago. He lazes around the house, drinks, smokes weed, and watches old revolutionary films. But when his daughter goes missing, he must quickly pull himself together and do whatever it takes to find her…
Inexorable Inexorable
Fabrice du Welz / Belgium, France / 2021 / 98 min / French
Inexorable, the latest creation of the Belgian master of arthouse genre fare Fabrice du Welz is a slow-burning thriller filled to the brim with tension, lies and desires.
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry Shashvi shashvi maq'vali
Elene Naveriani / Georgia, Switzerland, Germany / 2023 / 109 min / Georgian
A bittersweet love story from the Georgian countryside plumbing the depths of human soul torn between the longing for freedom and social limitations in a rural environment. An evocative look at one woman’s decision between a romantic relationship or a life of independence.
Panorama II (2023) Panorama II (2023)
različni avtorji / various / 77 min
Panorama is a strand that gives you the best insight into what regional animation cinema has to offer.
L'immensità L'immensità
Emanuele Crialese / Italy, France / 2022 / 97 min / Italian, Spanish
Inspired by the director’s childhood memories, the film is the story of a family: a daughter, Adriana, who prefers to be called by a boy’s name, and her mother, Clara, a free-thinking and unconventional woman trapped in a loveless marriage. The drama, set to the melodies of Italian pop songs from the 1970s, was directed by Emanuele Crialese (Respiro, Golden Door, Terraferma) and stars the always gorgeous Penélope Cruz.
The Party The Party
Blake Edwards / USA / 1968 / 99 min / English
The great masters of fusing slapstick and satire, Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers, skewer Hollywood snobbery in this on-target, behind-the-scenes lampoon of Tinseltown and the pinnacle of the Pink Panther team’s combined comedic genius.
The Monk and the Gun The Monk and the Gun
Pawo Choyning Dorji / Bhutan, Taiwan, USA, France / 2023 / 107 min / Dzongkha, English
A warm, funny story of the socio-political transformation of Bhutan and the ambivalence towards encroaching modernity, in which Western values crash against age-old culture.
Strangers on a Train Strangers on a Train
Alfred Hitchcock / USA / 1951 / 101 min / English
“Your wife. My father. Criss-cross.” The psychopathic dandy Bruno has an interesting proposition for the tennis star Guy: they will swap murders. Just kidding, of course… Patricia Highsmith once said that of all the adaptations of her novels, it was Hitchcock’s film that she enjoyed the most.
Moonage Daydream Moonage Daydream
Brett Morgen / Germany, USA / 2022 / 135 min / English
This striking, genre-defying audio-visual experience takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey through the life and work of David Bowie, one of the most prolific, influential, and enigmatic artists of our era. Featuring a wealth of previously unseen footage, the film premiered at the 2022 Cannes festival.
Three Thousand Numbered Pieces Háromezer számozott darab
Ádám Császi / Hungary / 2022 / 96 min
A unique, wise and rough blend of cinema, theatre, musical and comedy. Ádám Császi bravely continues to oppose the authoritarian Orbán regime.
Animateka 2023: Special Opening Screening Animateka 2023: posebna projekcija ob odprtju festivala
različni avtorji / various / 60 min
The Opening Gala pays tribute to Paul Bush, kicks off the collage animation history retrospective, and shows a set of films selected by the festival jury.
Main Competition I (2023) Tekmovalni program I (2023)
različni avtorji / various / 74 min
The best new animated films from Central and Eastern Europe in the running for the Audience Award and the Jury Grand Prix. The filmmakers featured in this strand include animation legends and debut filmmakers alike, and everyone in between.
Main Competition II (2023) Tekmovalni program II (2023)
različni avtorji / various / 73 min
The best new animated films from Central and Eastern Europe in the running for the Audience Award and the Jury Grand Prix. The filmmakers featured in this strand include animation legends and debut filmmakers alike, and everyone in between.
Main Competition III (2023) Tekmovalni program III (2023)
različni avtorji / various / 76 min
The best new animated films from Central and Eastern Europe in the running for the Audience Award and the Jury Grand Prix. The filmmakers featured in this strand include animation legends and debut filmmakers alike, and everyone in between.
Illyricvm Illyricvm
Simon Bogojević Narath / Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina / 2022 / 95 min
Through the eyes of a young Illyrian, a Croatian director shows an ancient world of brutality not all that different from our own.
The Eclipse Formørkelsen
Nataša Urban / Norway / 2022 / 108 min
The film’s central motif is the total solar eclipse of August 11, 1999. While the world celebrated, most of Serbia’s population barricaded themselves in their homes and nuclear bunkers, in fear of the lunar shadow. Using this event as a metaphor for the nation’s unclean conscience about the consequences of its political choices, the director confronts her country’s wartime and criminal past, and the evil that is still on the loose today.
The Profound Desire of the Gods Kamigami no fukaki yokubo
Shohei Imamura / Japan / 1968 / 175 min / Japanese
The pristine tropical island is still dominated by ancient tribal customs and pagan worship rituals. One day, Kariya, an engineer from Tokyo, arrives to drill a well for a sugar factory. While working, he meets the Futoris, an eccentric family who are shunned by most of the locals. He is seduced by the younger daughter Uma, a local shaman who is in an incestuous relationship with her brother Nekichi. The latter, chained to a rock, is digging a sacred cave to appease the gods…
The Spirit of the Beehive El espíritu de la colmena
Víctor Erice / Spain / 1973 / 97 min / Spanish
The poetic and allegorical debut feature by Victor Erice, shot in the last days of Franco’s Spain, is one of the most beautiful films about the power of cinema.
Puan Puan
María Alché, Benjamin Naishtat / Argentina, Italy, Germany, France, Brazil / 2023 / 111 min / Spanish
Two philosophy professors at the University of Buenos Aires are vying for the position of department head. A tragicomedy about the game of power, idealism and cynicism, and a society that deviated far from its revolutionary roots.
Totem Tótem
Lila Avilés / Mexico, Denmark, France / 2023 / 95 min / Spanish
A family gathering turns into a meditation on life, time and death, and a birthday-cum-farewell party for a terminally ill painter becomes a quest for the bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds.
The Kings of the World Los reyes del mundo
Laura Mora Ortega / Colombia, Norway, Mexico, Luxembourg, France / 2022 / 103 min / Spanish
In Colombia, five kings without a kingdom set out on a journey to find their promised land.