From 20 March 2025

Small Things Like These Small Things Like These

Tim Mielants / Ireland, USA, Belgium / 2024 / 98 min / English

Ireland, 1985. Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) works as a coal merchant to support himself, his wife and their five daughters. While delivering coal to the local convent of the Magdalene Sisters, he begins to suspect that the girls' school they run is in fact a cruel and exploitative laundry ... The film, which is based on Claire Keegan's novel of the same name, opened the Berlinale.

cast Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson, Michelle Fairley, Eileen Walsh

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Little Trouble Girls Kaj ti je deklica

Urška Djukić

Wednesday, 18. 03. 2026 / 10:00 / Main Hall

Urška Djukić’s (Granny’s Sexual Life) debut feature explores the power of girls’ voices to overturn traditional ideas and patriarchal patterns through the eyes of a shy and sensitive 16-year-old girl, Lucija. The opening film of the Perspectives Competition and winner of the FIPRESCI Award for Best First Film at this year’s Berlinale.

Documentary Film Festival

Videoheaven Videoheaven

Alex Ross Perry

Wednesday, 18. 03. 2026 / 17:00 / Main Hall

Socio-cultural hub, consumer mecca, and source of existential dread; the video rental store forever changed the way we interact with movies. With narration by Maya Hawke over footage culled from hundreds of sources, Perry’s Videoheaven tells the story of an industry’s seismic impact on American movie culture.

Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!

Igor Bezinović

Wednesday, 18. 03. 2026 / 19:15 / 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.