“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)
TWST: Things We Said Today TWST: Things We Said Today
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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Dahomey Dahomey
Mati Diop
Sunday, 23. 03. 2025 / 20:00 / Small Hall
In her beguiling work of speculative documentary the young French-Senegalese filmmaker charts the repatriation of stolen artefacts to Benin, interrogating colonial legacies, ancestry and the weight of history.
Last Screening
Once Upon a Time in Soča Valley Nekoč v Posočju
Ema Kugler
Monday, 24. 03. 2025 / 16:00 / Main Hall
A poetic documentary about the old faith in the Soča Valley, passed down orally from generation to generation.
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Three Times Hong Sang-soo