Lyz is a high-school student that has managed, with great dedication and hard work, to get into an excellent ski club. Under the guidance of her new coach Fred, a former ski champion, she is steeply climbing to the top of youth skiing and it seems a new star is being born. Their trainings become increasingly more demanding and, day by day, their relationship also gets more intense, with everything acquiring a touch of obsession. Soon after the initial triumph, the young skier is faced with the questions about where the boundaries – not only of physical capability, but also of personal space and the permissible – lie.
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Wisdom of Happiness Wisdom of Happiness
Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis
Thursday, 18. 09. 2025 / 18:30 / 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.
Yunan Yunan
Ameer Fakher Eldin
Thursday, 18. 09. 2025 / 19:30 / Main Hall
The Hamburg-based director of Palestinian-Syrian descent places the second instalment of his Homeland trilogy on a small, flood-prone island in the Wadden Sea. This melancholic, mood-driven film about exile and the scars it leaves behind features a charismatic performance by the legendary Hanna Schygulla.
Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović
Friday, 19. 09. 2025 / 18:00 / Main 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.