Film archive
Melting Dreams Smučarske sanje
Haidy Kancler / Slovenia, Austria, Finland / 2022 / 84 min
This documentary by a Slovenian director follows three Afghan girls who dream of becoming professional skiers and competing in the Olympic Games. But when they arrive in Europe to start the intensive training, their dreams begin to crumble …
Memoir of War La douleur
Emmanuel Finkiel / France, Switzerland, Belgium / 2017 / 127 min / French
1944, occupied France. Gifted young writer Marguerite Duras and her husband Robert Antelme are active members of the resistance. When Robert is deported, Marguerite is prepared to do anything to save him. To do so, she releases herself into dangerous circumstances with local collaborator Rabier – but are his motives as pure as meets the eye, or is he trying to obtain to details of the resistance movement as an informer? Based on Marguerite Duras’s 1944 autobiographical novel, Pain.
Memoria Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Colombia, Qatar, China, Mexico, Thailand, Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, France / 2021 / 136 min / Spanish, English
In his first film, shot outside his homeland, the Thai poet Apichatpong Weerasethakul, together with Tilda Swinton and Jeanne Balibar, takes us on a secret inner journey, triggered by a big bang. A film to be watched in the cinema! Jury Prize in Cannes.
Memories Within Miss Aggie Memories Within Miss Aggie
Gerard Damiano / USA / 1974 / 75 min / English
The Top Dog of the Golden Age of Porn, Gerard Damiano, follows up the cult hits Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones with what is likely the most bizarre and singular porno ever made. The Memories within Miss Aggie is a shocking, morbid, but also steamily erotic and at times heart-rending film, a compact masterpiece of hardcore erotica directed by a daring auteur.
Memory Memory
Michel Franco / Mexico, USA / 2023 / 100 min / English
A love story about a woman who can’t forget and a man who can’t remember. Sylvia lives a simple and orderly life: a daughter, a job, AA meetings. But everything is turned upside down when Saul follows her home one night from her high-school anniversary…
Memory Box Memory Box
Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige / France, Canada, Lebanon / 2021 / 102 min / English, Arabic, French
An unexpected package reopens old wounds from Lebanon’s civil war while creating an opportunity to finally heal them.
Memory House Casa de antiguidades
João Paulo Miranda Maria / Brazil, France / 2020 / 92 min / German, Portuguese
João Paulo Miranda Maria’s first full-length film melds past and present, realism and fantasy, to offer a mesmerising symbolic and political immersion into the Brazilian collective subconscious.
Men Men
Alex Garland / United Kingdom / 2022 / 100 min / English
Young Harper rents an idyllic country house in a remote English village to find her peace and recover after her husband’s death. But it seems that someone or something from the nearby forest is stalking her… The horror film by Alex Garland (Ex_Machina) saw its world première in this year’s Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival.
Men & Chicken Mænd & høns
Anders Thomas Jensen / Denmark / 2015 / 104 min
Using typical Scandinavian humour, Men & Chicken is a tragicomical parable of two eccentric brothers who learn the truth about themselves and their origins.
Men Don't Cry Muškarci ne plaču
Alen Drljević / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Germany, Croatia / 2017 / 98 min / Bosnian
Two decades after the Yugoslav Wars, a group of veterans gather at a remote mountain hotel to undergo therapy. But in this volatile situation each wrong look or imprudent remark can trigger a new conflict. An intense drama, boasting a cast of top Balkan actors.
Menashe Menashe
Joshua Z Weinstein / USA / 2017 / 81 min / English, Yiddish
Featuring a young widower straying from the designated path while bending strict Hasidic rules in a Jewish enclave, Menashe is an orthodox take on the typical Woody Allen-esque eccentricity.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Nagisa Oshima / United Kingdom, Japan / 1983 / 123 min / Japanese, English
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is a powerful antiwar film directed by Nagisa Oshima, but also a lasting testimony of David Bowie’s on-screen magnetism and charisma. With this 40th anniversary screening we also pay tribute to one of the great composers for film, Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Metrobranding – A Love Story Between Men and Objects Metrobranding – A Love Story Between Men and Objects
Ana Vlad, Adrian Voicu / Romania / 2010 / 92 min
Metronom Metronom
Alexandru Belc / Romania, France / 2022 / 102 min / Romanian
A teen romance and a drama about coming of age in communist Romania. 17-year-old Ana and her boyfriend spend their last days together before he emigrates from the country.
Mia and the Magoo Mia et le Migou
Jacques-Rémy Girerd / France, Italy / 2008 / 91 min / Slovene subtitles, French / 8+
Mia and the White Lion Mia et le lion blanc
Gilles de Maistre / France, South Africa, Germany / 2018 / 98 min / Slovene subtitles, English, French / 9+
Midsommar Midsommar
Ari Aster / USA, Hungary, Sweden / 2019 / 147 min / English, Swedish
Following up his directorial debut Hereditary, which shocked the audiences worldwide last year, Ari Aster is returning with one of this year’s most fervently anticipated horror films. Midsommar is a dark, oppressive horror fairy tale that manages to deliver its dread in full daylight.