“The idea was to tell the story of that weekend before the iconic conception at Shea Stadium, to mark the moment when everything changed in the world’s perception of the Beatles and also the realisation that that new music, that pop, was no longer just a youth phenomenon but embraced all ages.” (Andrej Ujica)
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The film takes as its starting point the arrival of the Beatles in New York for their August 1965 concert at Shea Stadium, and as its title a Beatles song that already anticipates a time when the present moment will have become a haunting past, neither retrievable nor forgettable. But the frame of reference steadily broadens. Adjacent realities of 1965 are juxtaposed—the New York World’s Fair, the Watts riots filtering through from the East Coast on television…
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The Ritual Ghatashraddha
Girish Kasaravalli
Monday, 01. 09. 2025 / 18:00 / Main Hall
A remote village in southern India, late 1930s. The underage Jamuna, already a widow, lives with her father, who runs a Vedic school for Brahmin boys. She is hiding a pregnancy from a clandestine relationship with a school teacher. When a new student, Nani, arrives at the school, a deep bond quickly forms between the boy and the young woman.
Sex Sex
Dag Johan Haugerud
Monday, 01. 09. 2025 / 20:30 / Main Hall
Sex, Love and Dreams—not necessarily in that order—are the chapters in a loosely connected trilogy set in contemporary Oslo. In Sex, an intimate conversation between two men sparks a witty and refreshingly honest reflection on sexuality and gender roles in our society.
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Parthenope Parthenope
Paolo Sorrentino
Tuesday, 02. 09. 2025 / 15:30 / Main Hall
Born in the 1950s in the sea in front of her home villa, Parthenope seeks happiness in the long summers of her youth and falls in love with her native Naples and its many picturesque characters. Paolo Sorrentino has created a seductive epic about a modern heroine’s journey beyond “great beauty” and “youth”.