Focusing on Highsmith’s quest for love and her troubled identity, the film sheds new light on her life and writing.
Loving Highsmith Loving Highsmith
A unique look at the life of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith based on her diaries and notebooks and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends and family.
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Past Lives Past Lives
Celine Song
Tuesday, 03. 10. 2023 / 16:30 / Main Hall
A budding childhood romance between Nora and Hae Sung, classmates at a primary school in Seoul, ends abruptly when Nora’s family emigrates to Canada. Many years later Nora, now a playwriting student in New York, notices that Hae Sung has been searching for her on social media… Cinematic debut by New York based playwright Celine Song.
No Dogs or Italians Allowed Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens
Alain Ughetto
Tuesday, 03. 10. 2023 / 18:45 / Main Hall
The film is conceived as a fictional dialogue with Cesira, the director’s grandmother, whom he asks everything he would have liked to know. A testimony to the experiences of these generations of Italian migrants and a tribute to their courage.
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Anatomy of a Fall Anatomie d’une chute
Justine Triet
Tuesday, 03. 10. 2023 / 20:30 / Main Hall
Sandra, a successful German writer, her French husband Samuel and their visually impaired eleven-year-old son Daniel live a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he committed suicide or was killed by his wife… Palme d’Or winner 2023!