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Europe in Short - 1. program (2021) Kratki filmi - 1. sklop (2021)

various / 86 min

Competition Programme

Maalbeek Maalbeek
Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, France, 2020, 15'

Survivor of the attack on Maalbeek metro station on 22 March 2016 in Brussels, Sabine is searching for the missing pieces of an over-mediatised event of which she has no recollection.

Genosse Tito, ich erber Comrade Tito, I Inherit
Olga Kosanović, Germany, Austria, 2021, 27'

Home is complicated, heritage may be a burden, and Tito becomes a symbol of something that once existed – a filmic examination of what remains.

Kazneni udarac Penalty Shot
Rok Biček, Croatia, Slovenia, 2021,15'

Two best friends spend an afternoon on a football field, dreaming of making it onto the local team. However, dreams come with a price: when a group of older boys interrupts their game, one of them sees it as an opportunity to prove himself, while the other one senses something more sinister is at play.

Das Spiel The Game
Roman Hodel, Switzerland, 2020, 17'

 A whistle. It gets loud in the spectator stands. The players protest angrily. The commentators follow the action on the field. In the middle of it, the referee. The whole stadium watches him. Now he has to decide.

Normal Normal
Julie Caty France, 2020, 11'

When Dany, a rich heir making up for his existential emptiness by the unbridled consumption of Magic'Powder – a drug with psychedelic and annihilating effects – meets Karl Marx by chance when going through withdrawal, the latter enjoins him to destroy capitalism in order to save the world of men. For better or for worse, Dany yields to his request and turns into a superhero.

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The Penguin Lessons The Penguin Lessons

Peter Cattaneo

Sunday, 27. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle

This moving dramedy about the unlikely friendship between a cynical Englishman and an adorable penguin was adapted by Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty) from a true story.

Parthenope Parthenope

Paolo Sorrentino

Monday, 28. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle

Born in the 1950s in the sea in front of her home villa, Parthenope seeks happiness in the long summers of her youth and falls in love with her native Naples and its many picturesque characters. Paolo Sorrentino has created a seductive epic about a modern heroine’s journey beyond “great beauty” and “youth”.

All We Imagine as Light All We Imagine as Light

Payal Kapadia

Tuesday, 29. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle

In the bustling chaos of Mumbai, the lives of three women from different generations intertwine. The debut feature by Payal Kapadia, winner of the Jury Grand Prize at Cannes, is the first Indian film in thirty years to compete in the festival’s main competition.