From 17 March 2025

The Volta Cinema Kino Volta

Martin Turk / Slovenia, Italy / 2024 / 85 min / Italian, Slovene, English

In 1909, in Trieste, the main port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four bold entrepreneurs met with a young English teacher, James Joyce. He proposed that they invest in the first permanent cinema in Ireland: Kino Volta. Martin Turk’s film is not a historical documentary about the birth of cinema but a nostalgic and playful evocation of the spirit of those who were part of the story.

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LIFFe / Kings & Queens

Two Prosecutors Dva prokurora

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Monday, 17. 11. 2025 / 11:00 / Main Hall

In the age of the great Stalinist purges, an idealistic prosecutor takes the plunge into the corridors of a totalitarian regime, seeking justice for a prisoner.

LIFFe / Perspectives

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Monday, 17. 11. 2025 / 15:00 / Main Hall

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LIFFe / Panorama

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Monday, 17. 11. 2025 / 17:30 / Main Hall

Shô Miyake’s contemplative feature probes the deeper impact of a chance encounter between two young loners. Spanning two seasons, the miniature spills out from a writer’s imagination into her real life.