The film—we could watch it at Liffe festival as part of its Perspectives section—received the best debut award in the International Critics' Week at Cannes Film Festival.
Our Mothers Nuestras madres
Guatemala, 2018. All the country's attention is focused on a trial against the soldiers who sparked the civil war. Victims give testimonies. Young forensic anthropologist Ernesto has the task of identifying the missing people. One day, while listening to an old woman's testimony, he suspects he might have caught the trail of his father, a member of the guerrilla, who had disappeared during the war...
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Romeria Romería
Carla Simón
Tuesday, 04. 11. 2025 / 17:30 / Main Hall
Catalan director Carla Simón (Alcarràs) once again digs into her family history to craft a story of her parents from a mix of real and imagined memories.
Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović
Tuesday, 04. 11. 2025 / 18:45 / 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.
Mirrors No. 3 Miroirs No. 3
Christian Petzold
Tuesday, 04. 11. 2025 / 20:00 / Main Hall
Christian Petzold once again explores themes of loss, memory, and identity – this time in a mysterious family psychodrama, a modern fairy tale for adults, in which two women try to piece together the fragments of their broken lives.