Programme:
URSA – The Song of the Northern Lights Ursa - Nordlysets sang
Natalia Malykhina, Norway, 2021, 11 min
A beautiful and melancholic story about one little polar bear who is alone in the cold dark Arctic and looking for his mum.
Perfect Houseguest
Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata, USA, 2015, 2 min
A house is visited by a clean, organized, well-mannered guest.
The Smortlybacks
Ted Sieger, Wouter Dierickx, Switzerland/China, 2014, 5 min
On a tabletop mountain a mahout and his strange herd make a surprising and never-ending journey.
The Smortlybacks Come Back
Ted Sieger, Switzerland, 2022, 8 min
In a barren world TamLin of the Little People travels with his herd of splendid smortlybacks in search of greener pastures. They struggle with fear and find themselves stranded on the shore of the ocean. With unlikely help of TamSin a wonderful mermaid and her disrespectful smortlysharks they cross the ocean and find a happy end.
URSA - The song of the northern lights Ursa - Nordlysets sang
What's On
Queer Queer
Luca Guadagnino
Tuesday, 22. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle
Daniel Craig as the alter ego of William S. Burroughs in a sensual film filled with romantic longing and psychedelic drugs, directed by Luca Guadagnino and based on the unfinished, autobiographically inspired novel of the iconic beatnik.
Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović
Wednesday, 23. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle
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.
The Room Next Door The Room Next Door
Pedro Almodóvar
Thursday, 24. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, but life separated them: Ingrid became a writer, and Martha a war correspondent. After years without contact, they meet again under unusual circumstances… Pedro Almodóvar’s latest creation is a story about the beauty of life and the inevitability of death, full of colour, light, and humour. The film won the Golden Lion in Venice and earned Tilda Swinton a Golden Globe nomination.