The news of Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, shocked the entire Soviet Union. The burial ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of mourners. We observe every stage of the funeral spectacle, described by Pravda newspaper as “the Great Farewell”, and receive an unprecedented access to the dramatic and absurd experience of life and death under Stalin’s reign.
State Funeral Gosudarstvennyye pokhorony
Unique, mostly unseen before, archive footage from March 1953 presents the funeral of Joseph Stalin as the culmination of the dictator’s personality cult.
What's On
Mirrors No. 3 Miroirs No. 3
Christian Petzold
Sunday, 19. 10. 2025 / 11:00 / Main Hall
Christian Petzold once again explores themes of loss, memory, and identity – this time in a mysterious family psychodrama, a modern fairy tale for adults, in which two women try to piece together the fragments of their broken lives.
Kinobalon
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Last Screening
My Summer Holiday Poletne počitnice
Petra Seliškar
Sunday, 19. 10. 2025 / 11:30 / Small Hall
A little shepherd spends his summers high in the mountains together with his dog friends.
Kinobalon
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Premiere
Elvis Starling Elvis Škorc
Boris Jurjaševič
Sunday, 19. 10. 2025 / 14:00 / Main Hall
Elvis Škorc humorously portrays the complex world of a fourteen-year-old who’s known since second grade that he wants to become an inventor.