Twelve-year-old Sofia has longed for the summer holidays so she can hang out with her friends at home in Serbia. Unfortunately, however, she must spend the summer on the Croatian island of Hvar with her eccentric and embarrassing grandmother. Sofia is bored and her grandmother treats her like a child. When she meets her cousin, everything completely changes. She learns about some family secrets that explain things a fair bit.
How I Learned to Fly Leto kada sam naučila da letim
If you are looking forward to the summer holidays, consider yourself lucky you don’t have to spend it in the company of an embarrassing, eccentric grandmother, like 12 year old Sofia in How I Learned to Fly, winner of the ECFA Award in the BUFF festival.
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Maldoror Maldoror
Fabrice du Welz
Friday, 14. 11. 2025 / 17:15 / Main Hall
Belgium, 1995. The disappearance of two girls shakes the public and triggers a media storm. An idealistic but impulsive young policeman, Paul Chartier, joins a secret unit called Maldoror, tasked with monitoring a suspect previously convicted of sexual assaults. When the operation fails, Chartier, frustrated by police inefficiency and the legal system, embarks on a lone pursuit that gradually turns into an obsession…
Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović
Friday, 14. 11. 2025 / 19:30 / 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.
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Ungrateful Beings Nevděčné bytosti
Olmo Omerzu
Friday, 14. 11. 2025 / 20:45 / Main Hall
The new feature by Slovenian-born, Czechia-based director Olmo Omerzu is an intimate exploration of parental dilemmas and adolescent alienation. A father’s holiday turns dark when his daughter’s summer romance becomes entangled with a local murder.
