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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Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach

Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub

Monday, 12. 01. 2026 / 18:30 / Main Hall

A singular film about Johann Sebastian Bach, created by the auteur duo Straub and Huillet based on various literary sources, including the fictional diary of his second wife, Anna Magdalena.

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Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!

Igor Bezinović

Monday, 12. 01. 2026 / 19:30 / 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.

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Ida Who Sang so Badly Even the Dead Rose up and Joined Her in Song Ida, ki je pela tako grdo, da so še mrtvi vstali od mrtvih in zapeli z njo

Ester Ivakič

Monday, 12. 01. 2026 / 20:40 / Main Hall

Curious young Ida, who lives in a small village in remote Prekmurje, becomes convinced that she can ward off her grandmother’s death by singing.