Film Under the Stars 2018
Love Life Love Life
Koji Fukada / Japan, France / 2022 / 123 min / Japanese
Told in the director’s signature bittersweet tone, this family story explores themes of loss and loneliness through the portrait of a woman searching for new meaning in her life.
Jury Programme - Michaela Pavlátová Žirija se predstavlja - Michaela Pavlátová
Czech Republic / 82 min
Crulic - The Path to Beyond Crulic - Drumul spre dincolo
Anca Damian / Romania, Poland / 2011 / 73 min / Romanian, Polish
Holy Spider Ankabut-e moqaddas
Ali Abbasi / Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France / 2022 / 118 min / Persian
Inspired by the true story of a notorious Iranian serial killer who murdered 16 prostitutes in the name of religion, the film is a bold condemnation of a culture of deeply rooted misogyny. Directed by the Iranian-Swedish director Ali Abbasi, this “Persian Noir” won the lead actress the Best Actress Award at Cannes.
107 Mothers Cenzorka
Peter Kerekes / Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine / 2021 / 93 min / Ukrainian, Russian
Beef Trout Director's Cut Goveja postrv – Director's cut 2016
Stjepan Drača / Slovenia / 2016 / 79 min / Slovene
The Ballad of Narayama Narayama bushi-ko
Shohei Imamura / Japan / 1983 / 130 min / Japanese
English Subtitles. A snow-covered village in the Shinshu Mountains. Orin is sixty-nine years old, but she is still healthy and strong – even her teeth are still intact. But winter is approaching, when she will have to leave her family and go to Mount Narayama. When she turns seventy, her eldest son will, according to tradition, carry her to the top of the mountain and leave her there to die…
The Taking The Taking
Alexandre O. Philippe / USA / 2021 / 76 min / English
The latest film from documentary filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe (Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist) is a radical examination of Monument Valley’s representation in cinema and advertising since John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939).
Mr. Vampire Geung see sin sang
Ricky Lau / Hong Kong / 1985 / 96 min
Ricky Lau’s seminal kung fu horror comedy Mr. Vampire is the godfather of the incomparable geongsi (jiangshi in Mandarin) subgenre of Chinese hopping vampires, a bona fide Hong Kong cult classic, and most importantly, it’s a riot!