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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Father Mother Sister Brother Father Mother Sister Brother

Jim Jarmusch

Friday, 09. 01. 2026 / 16:00 / Main Hall

Three stories, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, about the relationship between parents and their adult children. Jim Jarmusch’s “anti-action film” received the Golden Lion in Venice.

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Wisdom of Happiness Wisdom of Happiness

Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis

Friday, 09. 01. 2026 / 17:30 / 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.

Madly Follemente

Paolo Genovese

Friday, 09. 01. 2026 / 18:20 / Main Hall