Film Under the Stars 2018
Marona's Fantastic Tale L’extraordinaire voyage de Marona
Anca Damian / France, Romania, Belgium / 2018 / 92 min / French / 9+
A beautiful and deeply emotional story of an average dog and her extraordinary life.
Tito and the Birds Tito e os Pássaros
Gustavo Steinberg, Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto / Brazil / 2018 / 73 min / 8+
After an unusual epidemic starts to spread 10-year old Tito embarks on a journey to save the world. His search for the antidote becomes a quest for his missing father and for his own identity.
Never Like the First Time! Aldrig som fo?rsta gl?ngen!
Jonas Odell / various / 80 min
Jonas Odell retrospective.
The Swallows of Kabul Les Hirondelles de Kaboul
Zabou Breitman, Éléa Gobbé-Mévellec / France, Switzerland, Luxembourg / 2019 / 81 min / French
Kabul under Taliban rule. Two neighbourhoods and two couples, one conservative, one modern. When the lives of these diametrically opposite couples become intertwined, sacrifice becomes the price to pay for love.
Opening of the Elephant Programme: How It Grows… Butterfly Opening of the Elephant Programme: How It Grows… Butterfly
various / 46 min / 6+
For children aged 6 and more
Away Away
Gints Zilbalodis / Latvia / 2019 / 75 min / No dialogue
A boy and a little bird are traveling across an island on a motorcycle trying to escape a dark spirit and get back home.
iIsland iOtok
Miha Čelar / Slovenia, Italy, Croatia / 2018 / 90 min / Croatian, Slovene
iIsland is a feature documentary about the last 13 inhabitants of the island of Biševo and their struggles to save the island community from extinction.
Young Ahmed Le Jeune Ahmed
Jean-Pierre, Luc Dardenne / Belgium, France / 2019 / 90 min / French, Arabic / 15+
The Dardenne brothers, renowned for their profoundly human and socially engaged dramas depicting working-class life tackle a story about the impact of religious fanaticism on a young man.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
Céline Sciamma / France / 2019 / 120 min / French, Italian
Brittany, 1770. Marianne is commissioned to make the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young lady who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day and secretly paints her at night.
Divino amor Divino amor
Gabriel Mascaro / Brazil, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Chile, Uruguay / 2019 / 100 min / Portuguese
A drama with a science-fiction flavour: a futuristic gospel about jealousy, the fear of God and the power of unwavering faith that can move mountains.
Danmark Danmark
Kasper Rune Larsen / Denmark / 2017 / 90 min / Danish
Without judgement and with respectful proximity, Kasper Rune Larsen’s debut film paints a realistic portrait of young people and the complex multiplicity of their realities.
The Diary of Diana B. Dnevnik Diane Budisavljević
Dana Budisavljević / Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia / 2019 / 88 min / Croatian, German
Long kept a secret, this story about a woman who saved thousands of children from an Ustashe camp in the Second World War talks about the best people in the worst of times. This was the big winner of the Pula Film Festival, awarded by the audience with a standing ovation.
The Father Baštata
Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valčanov / Bulgaria, Greece / 2019 / 87 min / Bulgarian
The winning film of the 2019 Karlovy Vary Festival. An intimate family drama about the difficulties of connecting with those close to us, The Father’s story is depicted through many carefully arranged absurd or comic situations.
Joel Joel
Carlos Sorín / Argentina / 2018 / 100 min / Spanish
A heart-rending and complex drama about overcoming prejudices within the contexts of a family and broader community.
O Beautiful Night O Beautiful Night
Xaver Böhm / Germany / 2019 / 89 min / Russian, Korean, German
Replete with dark oneiric images evocative of human mortality, this unusual nocturnal odyssey stars Slovenian actor Marko Mandić in a leading role.
So Long, My Son Di jiu tian chang
Wang Xiaoshuai / China / 2019 / 176 min / Chinese
In the early 1980s, Liyun and Yaojun were a happy couple, until a tragic event turned their lives upside down. For the next three decades, the fate of the couple, bitterly impacted by the politics of their child, is intertwined with that of modern China.
Aga's House Shpia e Agës
Lendita Zeqiraj / Kosovo, France, Croatia, Albania / 2019 / 107 min / Albanian
Lendita Zeqiraj’s debut authentically re-creates the vibrant world of her energetic female protagonists, in which the flow of stories, the sound of singing, and coarse humour cannot mask the dark undertone of their country’s wartime past and its enduring ethnic tensions.
Lara Lara
Jan Ole Gerster / Germany / 2019 / 98 min / German
It is Lara’s 60th birthday and she has every reason to celebrate: her son Viktor will be giving the most important piano concert of his career. Lara was, after all, the one who had mapped out and driven his musical career. Yet nothing indicates that Lara will be welcome at his debut performance.
Monos Monos
Alejandro Landes / Colombia, Argentina, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Uruguay / 2019 / 102 min / English, Spanish
An adventurous utopia-cum-thriller delivered as a study of growing up with a strict hierarchy of power.
Our Mothers Nuestras madres
César Díaz / Belgium, France / 2019 / 78 min / Spanish
Guatemala, 2018. All the country’s attention is focused on a trial against the soldiers who sparked the civil war. Victims give testimonies. Young forensic anthropologist Ernesto has the task of identifying the missing people. One day, while listening to an old woman’s testimony, he suspects he might have caught the trail of his father, a member of the guerrilla, who had disappeared during the war…