On the shores of Lake Geneva in the late 1970s two former small time crooks, Eddie and Osman, are trying to figure out how to pay the hospital bills for Osman’s wife. When on Christmas day 1977 Charles Chaplin dies, Eddie comes up with a brilliant idea: Let’s “borrow” the Tramp and ask the Chaplins for help. Based on a true story!“A caper more Chaplinesque than the man himself” - The New York Times. (French spoken)
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Bitter Christmas Amarga Navidad
Pedro Almodóvar
Monday, 31. 08. 2026 / 19:15 / Main Hall
Bitter Christmas tells two alternating stories. One takes place in 2004 and stars an advertising director Elsa during a long weekend in December. The other, set in the present, features Raúl, a cult director working on a new script. Soon we discover Raúl is writing about Elsa, her boyfriend Bonifacio, and her friends Patricia and Natalia… Almodóvar’s—always stylish—latest comes straight from Cannes!
Palestine 36 Palestine 36
Annemarie Jacir
Tuesday, 01. 09. 2026 / 17:30 / Main Hall
Palestine in 1936. Uprisings against colonial rule are escalating. Yusuf, a peasant’s son, works for an influential family in Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the unrest. But history is unforgiving. With an increasing number of Jewish immigrants fleeing antisemitism in Europe and the Palestinian population uniting in the largest and longest uprising against thirty years of British rule, conflict seems increasingly inevitable.