“This film has mystery and passion, it climbs mountainous heights and rewards you with the opposite of vertigo: a sort of exaltation.”
– The Guardian
“The movie is novelistic in the best sense. It immerses you in the world of its characters – both human and Alpine – on that chimingly deep level that usually only literature can access.”
– Variety
Igor Bezinović
Monday, 06. 10. 2025 / 15:00 / Main 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.
Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis
Monday, 06. 10. 2025 / 16:30 / Small 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.
Billy Shebar, David Roberts
Monday, 06. 10. 2025 / 17:30 / Main Hall
A music-focused documentary that also features interviews with Björk and David Byrne. Through its mosaic-like structure, it reflects the author’s body of work and reveals her highly original vocabulary of sounds and images.
