Film Under the Stars 2018
Main Competition IV (2023) Tekmovalni program IV (2023)
različni avtorji / various / 75 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.
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Michael Winterbottom / United Kingdom / 2005 / 94 min
Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played with Fire Mannen som lekte med elden
Henrik Georgsson / Sweden / 2018 / 99 min / Swedish
A documentary portrait of the Swedish writer and journalist Stieg Larsson, the author of the Millennium trilogy, dedicated to his life obsession: revealing right-wing extremist movements and their strategies to come to power. World première at the Sundance Film Festival.
The Lockdown Tower La tour
Guillaume Nicloux / France / 2022 / 89 min / French
Guillaume Nicloux ventures into the realm of horror movies. Spinning an eerie nihilistic tale, the director provides an incisive, stark commentary on the gradual abandonment of all ethical norms in present-day France.
The Woman in the Fifth La femme du Vème
Pawel Pawlikowski / France, Poland, United Kingdom / 2011 / 85 min / English, French
Nostalgia Nostalgia
Mario Martone / Italy, France / 2022 / 118 min / Italian
After forty years Felice returns to the Naples he hastily left as a teenager. As vivid memories of his youth spring back to life, his feeling of nostalgia is soon overshadowed by a dark secret… Naples-born director Mario Martone plunges us in the picturesque streets of one of the most restless quarters of the city in the company of a man looking for his lost past. Adapted from a novel by Ermanno Rea.
Subtraction Tafrigh
Mani Haghighi / Iran, France / 2022 / 107 min / Persian
A suspense-ridden psychological drama, the story of a young couple finding their doppelgängers in the middle of Tehran is a new masterpiece by a renowned Iranian director Mani Haghighi who adopts an aesthetic of muted colours and a rain-battered cityscape.
De humani corporis fabrica De humani corporis fabrica
Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor / France, Switzerland / 2022 / 115 min
Five centuries ago, anatomist Andreas Vesalius opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the cinema. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others. As places of care, suffering and hope, hospitals are laboratories that connect everyone in the world.
Bodočnost, daleč prevelika je Il futuro è troppo grande
Giusy Buccheri in Michele Citoni / Italy / 2014 / 75 min / Chinese
The Runner The Runner
Saeed Taji Farouky / United Kingdom, Iran, France / 2013 / 94 min / Arabic, French
Mug Twarz
Małgorzata Szumowska / Poland / 2018 / 91 min / Polish
An insightful tale about the many problems an outsider has to confront after a facial disfigurement, Mug is an indictment of a prejudiced Polish community.
Black Stone Black Stone
Spiros Jacovides / Greece / 2022 / 87 min / Greek
A documentary filmmaking crew that stumbles upon an overprotective Greek mother searching for her grown-up son dispels the illusion of this eccentric family’s idyllic coexistence. Using the form of a fake documentary, this social satire betrays small lies and little secrets to humorous effect.
The Suicide Shop Le Magasin des suicides
Patrice Leconte / France, Canada, Belgium / 2012 / 79 min / French, Slovene subtitles / 13+
The Rabbi’s Cat Le Chat du Rabbin
Joann Sfar, Antoine Delesvaux / France / 2011 / 89 min / French, Russian / 12+
In Bloom Grzeli nateli dgeebi
Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Gross / Georgia, Germany, France / 2013 / 102 min