Three tales, three ages, three worlds. At the time of Ancient Egypt, a young king becomes the first black pharaoh to deserve the hand of his loved one. During the French Middle Ages, a mysterious wild boy steals from the rich to give to the poor. In the 18th century Turkey, a prince of pastries and a princess of roses escape the palace to live their love.
The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess Le Pharaon, le Sauvage et la Princesse
Michel Ocelot, the French animation master, unveils three new tales in this film mixing animation techniques, ages and continents.
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Romeria Romería
Carla Simón
Tuesday, 04. 11. 2025 / 17:30 / Main Hall
Catalan director Carla Simón (Alcarràs) once again digs into her family history to craft a story of her parents from a mix of real and imagined memories.
Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović
Tuesday, 04. 11. 2025 / 18:45 / 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.
Mirrors No. 3 Miroirs No. 3
Christian Petzold
Tuesday, 04. 11. 2025 / 20:00 / 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.