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.
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Werner Herzog’s Shorts II. Werner Herzog kratki II.
Werner Herzog
Friday, 21. 08. 2026 / 18:00 / Main Hall
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck, 1976; La Soufrière – Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe, 1977; Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, 1980
Bitter Christmas Amarga Navidad
Pedro Almodóvar
Friday, 21. 08. 2026 / 20:30 / 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!
Third World Treći svijet
Arsen Oremović
Friday, 21. 08. 2026 / 21:00 / Small Hall
Third World is more than just a documentary about Haustor, the legendary Zagreb band that left its mark on the former Yugoslavia’s music scene. It is the story of two creative opposites: Darko Rundek and Srđan Sacher. Through candid conversations, a studio reunion, and a wealth of archival material, the film reveals how the two artists’ sensitivity to the magic of everyday life once united their creative worlds – creating a third.