Film Under the Stars 2018
Sullivan's Travels Sullivan's Travels
Preston Sturges / USA / 1941 / 90 min / English
Preston Sturges’ comic masterpiece ranks among the best Hollywood satires and is perhaps the highlight in the career of one of the greatest geniuses of screwball comedy.
FeKK 2022: Private Life Of Everything FeKK 2022: svečana slovesnost + Klasiki: Zasebno življenje vsega
various / 71 min
The Birth of a Flower, F. Percy Smith; The Private Life of a Cat, Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren; La Soufrière, Werner Herzog; Everything, David O’Reilly
Oslo, August 31st Oslo, 31. august
Joachim Trier / Norway / 2011 / 96 min / Norwegian
A convincing and emotionally charged portrayal of a representative of the “lost” generation that had all the material predispositions for a nice life, but has wasted them in the alcohol- and drug-induced stupor of all-night parties.
Don't Call Me Son Mãe só há uma
Anna Muylaert / Brazil / 2016 / 82 min / Portuguese
Radiating genuine human warmth, the moving Brazilian drama explores the significant roles gender and biological family play in one’s life.
Ob 60. letnici rojstva Žarka Lužnika Ob 60. letnici rojstva Žarka Lužnika
Žare Lužnik / Slovenia / 87 min
Festival opening with Opening Night Premiere: The Suicide Shop Le Magasin des suicides
Patrice Leconte / France, Canada, Belgium / 2012 / 79 min / French
Nightmare Alley Nightmare Alley
Guillermo del Toro / USA / 2021 / 134 min / English
When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle endears himself to the clairvoyant Zeena and her has-been mentalist husband Pete at a travelling circus, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York Society…
Nope Nope
Jordan Peele / USA / 2022 / 131 min / English
»What’s a bad miracle?« Oscar-winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with Get Out and Us. Now, he reimagines the summer movie with a new pop nightmare: the expansive horror epic Nope. This film reunites Peele with Oscar-winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers, Alice) and Steven Yeun (Minari, Okja) as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.
Elvis Elvis
Baz Luhrmann / Australia / 2022 / 159 min / English
Elvis is Baz Luhrmann’s epic, big-screen spectacle about the life and music of Elvis Presley. The story of the King of Rock and Roll is seen through the prism of his complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks). As told by Parker, the film covers over 20 years, from Presley’s rise to fame to his unprecedented stardom.
Opening of The Elephant Family programme (2017) Slon - otvoritveni program (2017)
various / 60 min / 4+
For children aged 4 and on.
The Girl Without Hands La jeune fille sans mains
Se?bastien Laudenbach / France / 2016 / 76 min / French
The Story of My Wife A feleségem története
Ildikó Enyedi / Hungary, Italy, Germany, France / 2021 / 169 min
Director Ildikó Enyedi (My 20th Century, On Body and Soul) tells a love story through the eyes of a man desperate to understand his wife, a mysterious French woman played by Léa Seydoux. A modern variation of the legend of the Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship doomed to eternally sail the seven seas.
Sundown Sundown
Michel Franco / Mexico, Sweden, France / 2021 / 83 min / English
Michel Franco, an award-winning director known for insightful, provocative studies of individuals and societies under pressure, follows Tim Roth on an existential journey under the blazing Mexican sun.
Cabaret Cabaret
Bob Fosse / USA / 1972 / 124 min / English, German
Fifty years ago, this colourful, saucy, but also surprising dark musical, set in the last days of hedonistic Weimar Berlin, rocketed the “wonderfully decadent” Liza Minnelli to superstar fame. It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and eight Oscars, including Best Director and Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Cumbia Around The World Cumbia que te vas de ronda
Pablo Ignacio Coronel / Argentina, Bolivia / 2020 / 88 min / Spanish, English
The documentary takes us on a vibrant musical tour through Latin America, Europe and Asia, to explore the history, present and future of a rhythm that inspires people across generations and social classes. Cumbia Around the World tells of memory and identity, rituals and the sun, Afro sounds and drumbeats. What is cumbia, and how come it spreads such joy?
Tamburreddhu – Resistenza sonora Salentina Tamburreddhu – Resistenza sonora Salentina
Claudio »Cavallo« Giagnotti, Pierluigi de Donno / Italy / 2020 / 51 min
Yunan Yunan
Ameer Fakher Eldin / Germany, Canada, Italy / 2024 / 124 min / German
The Hamburg-based director of Palestinian-Syrian descent places the second instalment of his Homeland trilogy on a small, flood-prone island in the Wadden Sea. This melancholic, mood-driven film about exile and the scars it leaves behind features a charismatic performance by the legendary Hanna Schygulla.
Lux Æterna Lux Æterna
Gaspar Noé / France / 2019 / 52 min / French
The incorrigible provocateur Gaspar Noé (Irreversible, Enter the Void, Vortex) delivers an experimental, hypnotic essay about beliefs, the actor’s craft, and the art of filmmaking. Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Béatrice Dalle.
Incredible But True Incroyable mais vrai
Quentin Dupieux / France / 2022 / 74 min
“We’re afraid you’ll think we’re crazies if we tell the story.” A line that sets off this charmingly wacky and deeply amusing comedy from the French master of the absurd, Quentin Dupieux (Mandibles). The less you know about it, the better.
Chinatown Chinatown
Roman Polanski / USA / 1974 / 130 min / English
In a legendary performance, Jack Nicholson stars as private eye Jake Gittes. Hired by a mysterious woman to investigate Hollis Mulwray, the chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Gittes’ sleuthing brings him into contact with Mulwray’s wife (Faye Dunaway), a stunning socialite with secrets of her own. As a determined Gittes delves deeper he soon realises that even the City of Angels has a dark side.
Only Lovers Left Alive Only Lovers Left Alive
Jim Jarmusch / United Kingdom, Germany, France / 2013 / 123 min