cast Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Denis Lavant, Swann Arlaud
festivals, awards Venice 2025, San Sebastian 2025, Busan 2025, London 2025, Rio de Janeiro 2025
IMDb“François Ozon’s lustrously beautiful and superbly realised monochrome version of Albert Camus’s novella has an almost supernaturally detailed sense of period and place.”
– The Guardian
“A magnificent journey through my father’s work, rendered with the utmost respect. Bravo, François, and thank you.”
– Catherine Camus
Pedro Almodóvar
Tuesday, 25. 08. 2026 / 18:00 / Main Hall
Bitter Christmas tells two alternating stories. One takes place in 2004 and stars an advertising director Elsa during a long weekend in December. The other, set in the present, features Raúl, a cult director working on a new script. Soon we discover Raúl is writing about Elsa, her boyfriend Bonifacio, and her friends Patricia and Natalia… Almodóvar’s—always stylish—latest comes straight from Cannes!
Francesco Sossai
Tuesday, 25. 08. 2026 / 20:30 / Main Hall
Francesco Sossai breathes new life into Italian comedy with a bittersweet road movie. Together with two old friends, we wander through the Venetian lowlands, empty our glasses, and try to remember the “truly incredible thing about life” that Carlo Bianchi discovered. It was the big winner at the prestigious Italian David di Donatello film awards.
Howard Hawks
Tuesday, 25. 08. 2026 / 20:30 / Congress Square
