»Giamatti’s performance even outclasses the one he gave in Sideways. Nostalgic, funny, moving and thought-provoking, this may well qualify, in a career not short of outstanding achievements, as its director’s finest and most immersive film yet.«
– Sight and Sound
The Holdovers The Holdovers
The Holdovers reunites Sideways’ Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti in a holiday story of three lonely, shipwrecked people at a New England boarding school during the winter break in 1970. Golden Globe for Giamatti and an Oscar for Joy Randolph.
cast Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
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A Loose End Un Cabo Suelto
Daniel Hendler
Monday, 17. 11. 2025 / 21:20 / Main Hall
Straddling several genres – romantic comedy, western, road movie and police thriller –, this offbeat comedy follows a runaway Argentine policeman adrift in Uruguay.
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A Poet Un poeta
Simón Mesa Soto
Tuesday, 18. 11. 2025 / 11:00 / Main Hall
A dark comedy, Mesa Soto’s second feature blends wry humour with a perceptive take on Colombia’s current social milieu to tell a tale of promise, expectation and failure.
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Blue Heron Blue Heron
Sophy Romvari
Tuesday, 18. 11. 2025 / 15:00 / Main Hall
The Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker builds on her celebrated short work in a complex, sure-handed drama that deftly weaves documentary elements into a raw fictionalization of her own childhood.