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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The Boy and the Heron Kimitachi wa do ikiru ka
Hayao Miyazaki
Friday, 19. 04. 2024 / 14:20 / Main Hall
The great Hayao Miyazaki returns with a deeply personal, autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and the art of creating. The winner of this year’s Oscar for animated feature is a film full of breathtaking beauty, mischievous humour, and gentle melancholy.
Hundreds of Beavers Hundreds of Beavers
Mike Cheslik
Friday, 19. 04. 2024 / 17:00 / Main Hall
Filmed in Wisconsin and Michigan in subzero temperatures by indie film mavericks and best buddies Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews Hundreds of Beavers is a feature length live action incarnation of a Looney Tunes cartoon. Unwaveringly true to its cartoon logic from start to finish, this epic silent action comedy is endlessly inventive, inspiring, ingenious and downright insane.
Woman of God Duhovnica
Maja Prettner
Friday, 19. 04. 2024 / 18:30 / Small Hall
A documentary film about a free-spirited evangelical priest Jana, who is facing a great life dilemma – to leave or continue pursuing the priesthood, all whilst dealing with many other challenges: from childhood wounds to solving complex family relationships. In the town, she is seen as God’s representative on earth, but at the end of the day, she’s only human too.