The film that was included in the Perspectives section of the Ljubljana International Film Festival won a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival (the Alfred Bauer Prize) and was selected as the German candidate for the Academy Awards.
System Crasher Systemsprenger
Nine-year-old Benni is loud, wild, and unpredictable. Her unbridled energy is frustrating for everybody around her. But Benni only wishes for one thing: to return to her mother.
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Late Shift Heldin
Petra Volpe
Tuesday, 17. 03. 2026 / 15:50 / Main Hall
Shot with the pacing and tension of a thriller, Late Shift follows a single night in the working life of a nurse in an overcrowded Swiss hospital. Both gripping and compassionate, the film is a tribute to the extraordinary people who stand by us in the most vulnerable moments of our lives.
Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović
Tuesday, 17. 03. 2026 / 17:00 / 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.
Pompei: Below the Clouds Sotto le nuvole
Gianfranco Rosi
Tuesday, 17. 03. 2026 / 18:00 / Main Hall
Between Vesuvius and the Gulf of Naples, the land quakes from time to time, and the fumaroles of the Phlegraean Fields taint the air. The ruins that lie below – Pompeii, Herculaneum, long-submerged Roman villas – tell of a future that was buried by time. From these traces of history, memories of the subterranean world, in black and white, a lesser-known Naples emerges and fills with lives.