Film Under the Stars 2018

5 to 28 July 2018, open-air cinema at the Ljubljana Castle, every day at 21:30.

Ray & Liz Ray & Liz

Richard Billingham / United Kingdom / 2018 / 108 min / English

Renowned British photographer and visual artist Richard Billingham makes his feature-film debut with this intricate portrayal of a family in their council flat outside Birmingham, inspired in part by his own memories.

Stitches Šavovi

Miroslav Terzić / Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina / 2019 / 98 min / Serbian

Featuring a protagonist who fights against the system in her quest for truth, Stitches exposes one of the greatest scandals in Serbia’s recent history.

Beanpole Dilda

Kantemir Balagov / Russia / 2019 / 137 min / Russian

A story about Ija and Maša, two young women seeking sense and hope in the ruins of post-war Leningrad.

System Crasher Systemsprenger

Nora Fingscheidt / Germany / 2019 / 118 min / German

Nine-year-old Benni is loud, wild, and unpredictable. Her unbridled energy is frustrating for everybody around her. But Benni only wishes for one thing: to return to her mother.

Bacurau Bacurau

Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles / Brazil, France / 2019 / 131 min / Portuguese, English

Flying saucers, duplicitous politicians and undercover assassins. A metaphor for present-day Brazil delivered as a dystopic western starring Sonia Braga and Udo Kier.

Ema Ema

Pablo Larraín / Chile / 2019 / 107 min / Spanish

Ema, a young reggaeton dancer, decides to separate from Gastón after giving back the son they adopted and were unable to raise. However, she has a secret plan to recover everything she’s lost.

His Master's Voice Az Úr hangja

György Pálfi / Hungary, Canada, Sweden, USA, France / 2018 / 108 min / Hungarian, English

Acclaimed Hungarian director György Pálfi (Taxidermia) drew inspiration for his dystopic tale about a family’s dark history from Stanislav Lem’s iconic novel of the same name.

A Voluntary Year Das freiwillige Jahr

Ulrich Köhler, Henner Winckler / Germany / 2019 / 86 min

This family drama tells the story of a father who falls victim to his own unrealised dreams and refuses to accept the fact that he no longer has control of his adolescent daughter’s life.

Lillian Lillian

Andreas Horvath / Austria / 2019 / 128 min / Russian, English

Austrian documentarian Andreas Horvath’s fiction debut tells a true story about a young immigrant who decides to walk back to her native Russia from New York.

A Hidden Life A Hidden Life

Terrence Malick / USA, Germany / 2019 / 173 min / English, German, Italian

Based on real events, A Hidden Life tells the story of the Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to take the Hitler Oath and fight for the Nazis. Faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife and children that keeps his spirit alive.

Liberté Liberté

Albert Serra / France, Spain, Portugal / 2019 / 132 min / French, German, Italian

A forest at night. Three libertines, expelled from the puritan court of Louis XVI, run into the legendary German seducer and freethinker, the Duke of Walchen. Their mission is to export libertinage, a philosophy based on rejecting all moral restraints and authorities but above all, to find a safe place to indulge in their misguided games.

It Must Be Heaven It Must Be Heaven

Elia Suleiman / France, Canada, Turkey, Germany, Palestine, Qatar / 2019 / 97 min

A “comedy of errors” in which the director’s travels take him from Palestine to Paris and New York—yet everywhere he goes, it is his homeland that he finds.

Vitalina Varela Vitalina Varela

Pedro Costa / Portugal / 2019 / 124 min / Portuguese

Winner of the Golden Leopard at the 2019 Locarno Film Festival. The suggestive reality told by Vitalina, a 55-year-old Cape Verdean actress playing herself, is fraught with pain, its desperate sadness displayed in nocturnal images and a Caravaggio-esque chiaroscuro.

Zombi Child Zombi Child

Bertrand Bonello / France / 2019 / 103 min / French

French director Bertrand Bonello uses zombies as a metaphor for historical trauma whose echoes re-emerge to haunt new generations of white elites.

The Whistlers La Gomera

Corneliu Porumboiu / Romania, Germany, France / 2019 / 97 min

Police inspector Cristi arrives to the Canarian island of Gomera to meet Gilda, a femme fatale, and learn the ancient whistling language. But nothing is as it seems, and things don’t go as planned.

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija

Teona Strugar Mitevska / North Macedonia, Slovenia, France, Belgium, Croatia / 2019 / 100 min / Macedonian / 16+

A film based on a real event that, years ago, brought outrage to a small Macedonian community. A universal and immensely relevant story of rebellion in the face of a patriarchal society.

Synonyms Synonymes

Nadav Lapid / France, Israel, Germany / 2019 / 123 min / Hebrew, French, English

A young Israeli man, Yoav, comes to Paris hoping that France and the French people will save him from the madness of his home country. The film, awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, was also screened at the last Liffe festival.

The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão A vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmao

Karim Aïnouz / Brazil, Germany / 2019 / 142 min / Portuguese

Rio de Janeiro in 1950. Sisters Eurídice and Guida live with their conservative parents and dream about a different life. Eurídice dreams of becoming a piano player and Guida seeks her great love. When Guida gets pregnant, their infuriated father breaks contacts between the two sisters. So commences the long separation of the two women who never lose hope to be reunited one day.

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