The Apprentice The Apprentice

Ali Abbasi / Canada, Ireland, Denmark / 2024 / 122 min / English

The Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi dramatises Trump’s rise to power through a Faustian pact with influential right-wing lawyer Roy Cohn. As the director puts it: “A success story that could only happen in America.”

cast Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova, Martin Donovan, Catherine McNally, Charlie Carrick, Ben Sullivan, Mark Rendall, Joe Pingue, Jim Monaco

festivals, awards Cannes; Telluride; London

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Palestine 36 Palestine 36

Annemarie Jacir

Tuesday, 22. 09. 2026 / 17:30 / Main Hall

Palestine in 1936. Uprisings against colonial rule are escalating. Yusuf, a peasant’s son, works for an influential family in Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the unrest. But history is unforgiving. With an increasing number of Jewish immigrants fleeing antisemitism in Europe and the Palestinian population uniting in the largest and longest uprising against thirty years of British rule, conflict seems increasingly inevitable.

The Thing to be Done Ono što treba činiti

Srđan Kovačević

Tuesday, 22. 09. 2026 / 19:00 / Small Hall

Festival of Migrant Film / Opening night

Freedom – Le destin de Shewit Freedom – Le destin de Shewit

Anne-Frédérique Widmann

Tuesday, 22. 09. 2026 / 20:00 / Main Hall