After her sixteenth birthday, Catherine’s life is turned upside down. At home, she has to deal with her distracted parents, whose only thought is their divorce. She thus spends increasingly more time away from home with her peers, with whom she explores drugs, alcohol, happiness and love. With an exceptional music selection, this adaptation of the eponymous novel by the renowned Canadian writer Geneviève Pettersen depicts a complicated growing up of a rebellious teenager and her friends in the mid-1990s.
Goddess of the Fireflies La déesse des mouches à feu
Let film take you to unfree freedom!
Screenplay Catherine Léger (based on the novel by Geneviève Pettersen), Cinematography Jonathan Decoster, Editing Stéphan Lafleur, Sound Desgin Sylvain Bellemare, Music Mathieu Charbonneau, Production Luc Vandal, Cast Kelly Depeault, Caroline Néron, Normand d'Amour, Élénore Loiselle, Robin L'Houmeau, Noah Parker, Marine Johnson etc.
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Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović
Sunday, 21. 12. 2025 / 20:00 / Small Hall
On 12 September 1919, a troop of some three hundred soldiers under the leadership of the flamboyant war-loving Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio swooped into the Northern-Adriatic port town of Fiume, now Rijeka, wanting to annex the city to Italy. Over the course of the next 16 months, during what is regarded as one of the most bizarre militant sieges of all time his official photography team captured over 10,000 images. A century later, Igor Bezinović orchestrates a direct-action history lesson focused on the siege and its modern-day implications.
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Islands Islands
Jan-Ole Gerster
Sunday, 21. 12. 2025 / 21:15 / Main Hall
A sun-drenched neo-noir directed by German filmmaker Jan Ole Gerster, co-written with the recently deceased Slovenian screenwriter and director Blaž Kutin, who also co-wrote Gerster’s previous feature Lara. The film had its gala premiere in the Berlinale Special Gala section.
Hamnet Hamnet
Chloé Zhao
Monday, 22. 12. 2025 / 16:00 / Main Hall
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) imagines how a tragedy from Shakespeare’s real life might have inspired the creation of his timeless masterpiece Hamlet. Starring the exceptional Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, the film is a moving story about love, loss, and the healing power of art.