Film Under the Stars 2018
A Dangerous Method A Dangerous Method
David Cronenberg / Germany, Canada / 2011 / 99 min / English
On the eve of World War I, Zurich and Vienna are the setting for this dark tale of sexual and intellectual discovery.
We Need to Talk About Kevin We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lynne Ramsay / United Kingdom / 2011 / 112 min / English / 15+
Garbo: The Spy Garbo. El Espia. El Hombre que salvo el mundo
Edmon Roch / Spain / 2009 / 87 min / English, Spanish, German
Big Foot Mama - Tist' dan v tednu Big Foot Mama - Tist' dan v tednu
Anže Verdel, Anže Petrič, Miha Čeak / Slovenia / 2010 / 119 min / Slovene
The Boy and the Heron Kimitachi wa do ikiru ka
Hayao Miyazaki / Japan / 2023 / 124 min / Japanese
The great Hayao Miyazaki returns with a deeply personal, autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and the art of creating. The winner of this year’s Oscar for animated feature is a film full of breathtaking beauty, mischievous humour, and gentle melancholy.
No Other Land No Other Land
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor / Palestine, Norway / 2024 / 95 min / Arabic, Hebrew, English
Palestinian activist Basel Adra has been documenting for years how Israeli occupiers destroy villages in his home region of Masafer Yatta. While fighting to preserve his community, he forms an unexpected alliance with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham…
Two Prosecutors Dva prokurora
Sergej Loznica / France, Netherlands, Germany, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania / 2025 / 118 min / Russian
This film by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa (A Gentle Creature, Donbass) is a Kafkaesque exploration of a totalitarian regime. It is suffused with an overwhelming sense of inevitability and laced with the director’s signature grotesque humour.
There's Still Tomorrow C'è ancora domani
Paola Cortellesi / Italy / 2023 / 118 min / Italian
Rome, the 1940s. Delia wants to be a good mother and wife. Always busy, she lives with her husband Ivano and their three children. Ivano is the harsh padre padrone, but his bedridden father is even worse. Delia has occasional moments of relief exchanging secrets with her best friend Marisa, and she is happy at the prospect of her oldest daughter getting married to a wealthier young man. She submissively accepts the fate that was assigned to her, until one day a mysterious letter arrives …
Solitude Einvera
Ninna Pálmadóttir / Iceland, Slovakia, France / 2023 / 75 min / Icelandic
The debut of an Icelandic director, this is a warm but never sentimental story about the solace that unexpected friendship can bring.
Ungrateful Beings Nevděčné bytosti
Olmo Omerzu / Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, France, Croatia / 2025 / 110 min / Czech, English
Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu (Family Film), based in the Czech Republic, returns with an original drama about a family in crisis, infused with subtle humour and unexpected narrative turns. The film had its world premiere in the main competition at the San Sebastián Film Festival.
Blum – Gospodari svoje budučnosti Blum – Gospodari svoje budučnosti
Jasmila Žbanić / Bosnia and Herzegovina / 2024 / 76 min / Bosnian
Emerik Blum, born in Sarajevo and, founded Energoinvest in 1951. In doing so, the entrepreneur launched one of the most successful international corporate histories of what was then socialist Yugoslavia. His recipe for success: people, worker self-management, and innovation.
Orwell: 2+2=5 Orwell: 2+2=5
Raoul Peck / USA / 2025 / 119 min / English, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Russian, French
1949. George Orwell finishes what will be his final but most important novel, 1984. Orwell: 2+2=5 delves deep into his final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece. Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, the omnipresent spectre of Big Brother. Disturbing sociopolitical truths which resonate ever-more powerfully today.