14-year-old Felix Xaba dreams of becoming a saxophonist like his late father, but his mother Lindiwe thinks jazz is the devil’s music.
When Felix leaves his township friends to take up a scholarship at an elitist private school, he defies his mother and turns to two aging members of his father’s old band to help him prepare for the school jazz concert.
Joachim Trier
Monday, 12. 01. 2026 / 15:45 / Main Hall
After the success of The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier returns with an intimate and deeply moving story about family, memory, and the unifying power of art. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes and nominated for eight Golden Globes.
Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis
Monday, 12. 01. 2026 / 17:30 / Small Hall
With disarming wit, the Dalai Lama reflects on balancing millennia-old Tibetan Buddhist traditions with the contemporary values of our globalised society that now struggles to overcome violence and war while standing on the brink of environmental collapse.
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Monday, 12. 01. 2026 / 18:30 / Main Hall
A singular film about Johann Sebastian Bach, created by the auteur duo Straub and Huillet based on various literary sources, including the fictional diary of his second wife, Anna Magdalena.