A cable car connects a village in the mountains with a small town in the valley. Iva starts working at the cable car as an attendant. The cable car has two gondolas. When one gondola goes up, the other goes down. The gondolas meet each other halfway. The attendant of the other gondola is Nino. Iva and Nino meet each other as they drive past every half hour. And one evening, they meet after hours.
Gondola Gondola
Following his Absurdistan and The Bra, German director Veit Helmer returns to the Caucasus to shoot his latest feature film in the remote mountains of Georgia – a love story told without dialogue about two female cable car attendants.
cast Nini Soselia, Mathilde Irrmann
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Late Shift Heldin
Petra Volpe
Sunday, 16. 11. 2025 / 19:10 / Main Hall
Relating to the experience of an overworked nurse, Petra Volpe’s drama raises questions about human fallibility and empathy towards healthcare workers pushed to their limits.
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Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović
Sunday, 16. 11. 2025 / 20:00 / 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.
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Teodora Mihai
Sunday, 16. 11. 2025 / 21:15 / Main Hall
A heist drama film develops into a trenchant and tragicomic critique of the economic hierarchies of power, while exploring the divide between the East and the West.