From 20 June 2019

The Most Beautiful Country in the World Das schönste Land der Welt

Želimir Žilnik / Austria, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia / 2018 / 102 min / German

Master of docudrama Želimir Žilnik, in close collaboration with his performers, offers this wild and humorous story of a young refugee in Vienna who finds himself caught between newfound freedom and the traditions of his home country.

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Želimir Žilnik: Crni film

Director invites six homeless men to his flat for a few days (surprising his wife). He asks officials and people on the street if someone can help them, this being SFRJ, a state officially without those left on their own.

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Wisdom of Happiness Wisdom of Happiness

Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis

Tuesday, 14. 10. 2025 / 15:00 / Main 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.

One Battle After Another One Battle After Another

Paul Thomas Anderson

Tuesday, 14. 10. 2025 / 17:00 / Main Hall

The latest film by Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master, Phantom Thread) follows Bob, a former member of a revolutionary group who cut ties with the world sixteen years ago. He lazes around the house, drinks, smokes weed, and watches old revolutionary films. But when his daughter goes missing, he must quickly pull himself together and do whatever it takes to find her…

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Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!

Igor Bezinović

Tuesday, 14. 10. 2025 / 19:15 / 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.