Pictures of Ghosts Retratos Fantasmas

Kleber Mendonça Filho / Brazil / 2023 / 93 min / Portuguese

Like in many places around the world, in the 20th century, millions of people went to the cinema in the centre of Recife. This three-part film essay is a playful and captivating homage to cinema in Recife and the movie theatres where the author grew up and still lives.

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Madly Follemente

Paolo Genovese

Friday, 26. 12. 2025 / 16:00 / Main Hall

Hamnet Hamnet

Chloé Zhao

Friday, 26. 12. 2025 / 18:10 / Main Hall

Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) imagines how a tragedy from Shakespeare’s real life might have inspired the creation of his timeless masterpiece Hamlet. Starring the exceptional Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, the film is a moving story about love, loss, and the healing power of art.

Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!

Igor Bezinović

Friday, 26. 12. 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.