"Jenkins channels all of Baldwin’s lyricism and anger into a story of love and injustice that burns with a gentle flame, occasionally blazing into a white heat."
- Time Out UK.
Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress Regina King.
If Beale Street Could Talk If Beale Street Could Talk
Based on the novel by James Baldwin and directed by Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), this is the story of Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover's innocence while carrying their first child to term.
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A Poet Un poeta
Simón Mesa Soto
Tuesday, 18. 11. 2025 / 11:00 / Main Hall
A dark comedy, Mesa Soto’s second feature blends wry humour with a perceptive take on Colombia’s current social milieu to tell a tale of promise, expectation and failure.
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Blue Heron Blue Heron
Sophy Romvari
Tuesday, 18. 11. 2025 / 15:00 / Main Hall
The Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker builds on her celebrated short work in a complex, sure-handed drama that deftly weaves documentary elements into a raw fictionalization of her own childhood.
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Growing Down Minden Rendben
Bálint Dániel Sós
Tuesday, 18. 11. 2025 / 17:00 / Main Hall
A widowed father grapples with a tricky ethical dilemma after being the sole witness to a serious, potentially life-threatening accident caused by his son.