Kinosloga. Retrosex 2022
Toxic Akipleša
Saule Bliuvaite / Lithuania / 2024 / 99 min / Lithuanian
Dreaming of escape from the bleakness of their hometown, two thirteen-year-olds enter a local modelling school, where the promise of a better life pushes girls to violate their bodies in increasingly extreme ways.
Queen Queen
Vikas Bahl / India / 2013 / 146 min / Hindi
This bittersweet comedy about self-discovery topped the Indian box office charts immediately after its premiere and is now widely regarded as a groundbreaking Indian feminist film. It has been ranked among the ten greatest Bollywood films of the 21st century by the British Film Institute.
The Most Beautiful Country in the World Das schönste Land der Welt
Želimir Žilnik / Austria, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia / 2018 / 102 min / German
Master of docudrama Želimir Žilnik, in close collaboration with his performers, offers this wild and humorous story of a young refugee in Vienna who finds himself caught between newfound freedom and the traditions of his home country.
Sons Vogter
Gustav Möller / Denmark, Sweden / 2024 / 100 min / Danish
Danish director Gustav Möller returns after his successful minimalist debut The Guilty with another psychological thriller, this time set within the walls of a maximum-security prison.
Blue Velvet Revisited Blue Velvet Revisited
Peter Braatz / Germany, Slovenia / 2016 / 85 min / English
The New Year That Never Came Anul Nou care n-a fost
Bogdan Muresanu / Romania, Serbia / 2024 / 138 min / Romanian
The fall of the communist regime in Romania as seen through the eyes of six ordinary people, Muresanu’s debut feature captures the exhilarating impact of history in the making.
Best of the World I (2022) Svetovni jagodni izbor I (2022)
različni avtorji / various / 76 min
A programme of the best animated shorts from around the world, programmed to give you a thorough insight into the latest developments and trends in auteur animation, including many award-winners from some of the leading international festivals.
Main Competition I (2022) Tekmovalni program I (2022)
različni avtorji / various / 73 min
The best new animated films from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe in the running for the ;DSAF (Slovene Animated Film Association) Audience Award and the Jury Grand Prix. The filmmakers featured in this strand include animation legends and debut filmmakers alike, and everyone in between.
The Goldman Case Le procès Goldman
Cédric Kahn / France / 2023 / 115 min / French
Cédric Kahn stages the 1975 trial of French leftist revolutionary Pierre Goldman in Paris. The film opened the Directors’ Fortnight section at Cannes and won the César Award for Best Actor.
Krazy House Krazy House
Steffen Haars, Flip van de Kuil / Netherlands / 2024 / 86 min / English, Dutch
A 1990s-style sitcom in which a cutesy family is home-invaded by a murderous Russian father and his two sons. The unhinged comedy slowly attains darker shades of Ramboesque bloodshed and slaughter of religious values.
Main Competition I (2024) Tekmovalni program I (2024)
različni avtorji / various / 76 min
The best new animated films from Central and Eastern Europe in the running for the Audience Award and the Jury Grand Prix. The filmmakers featured in this strand include animation legends and debut filmmakers alike, and everyone in between.
The Silence of Life V tišini življenja
Nina Blažin / Slovenia / 2024 / 88 min / Slovene
A story about departure, remembrance, and love. A film that celebrates life.
Main Competition III (2024) Tekmovalni program III (2024)
različni avtorji / various / 72 min
The best new animated films from Central and Eastern Europe in the running for the Audience Award and the Jury Grand Prix. The filmmakers featured in this strand include animation legends and debut filmmakers alike, and everyone in between.
Best of the World I (2024) Svetovni jagodni izbor I (2024)
različni avtorji / various / 75 min
A programme of the best animated shorts from around the world, programmed to give you a thorough insight into the latest developments and trends in auteur animation, including many award-winners from some of the leading international festivals.
Wake in Fright Wake in Fright
Ted Kotcheff / Australia / 1971 / 108 min / English
Along Mad Max, Walkabout and Picnic at Hanging Rock, Wake in Fright is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema. A long lost and bona fide masterpiece of bizarre and uncomfortable cinema. Forget about Lynch. The most sun scorched cinematic nightmare belongs to Ted Kotcheff.
Total Trust Total Trust
Zhang Jialing / Germany, Netherlands / 2023 / 97 min
Total Trust is an eye-opening and deeply disturbing story of surveillance technology, abuse of power and (self-)censorship that confronts us with what can happen when our privacy is ignored. Through the haunting stories of people in China who have been monitored, intimidated and even tortured, the film tells of the dangers of technology in the hands of unbridled power.
Wil Wil
Tim Mielants / Belgium, Poland, Netherlands / 2023 / 107 min / Dutch
The film based on the award-winning best-seller by Belgian writer Jeroen Olyslaegers has us walking in the shoes of a man trying to survive the moral chaos of the war.
Branded to Kill Koroshi no rakuin
Seijun Suzuki / Japan / 1967 / 91 min / Japanese
Anarchic, hilarious, outrageous, brutal, breathtaking, and iconoclastic are just some of the adjectives used to describe the most famous film of Japanese New Wave director Seijun Suzuki.
Four Daugthers Les filles d’Olfa
Kaouther Ben Hania / France, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Germany / 2023 / 110 min / Arabic, French, English
Olfa is the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappeared to join Islamic extremists. The director replaces them with actors. As the real women confront their traumatic past, the actors face ethical questions about its portrayal. This richly awarded documentary is a slow-burning study of family trauma and an intimate journey full of hope, rebellion, sisterly love and intergenerational transmission of suffering and violence.
Zénithal Zénithal
Jean-Baptiste Saurel / France / 2024 / 80 min / French
A completely madcap comedy blending elements of kung fu movies, bizarre sexuality and unabashed humour, tackles the serious subject of gender power relations.
Being Blanche Houellebecq Dans la peau de Blanche Houellebecq
Guillaume Nicloux / France / 2024 / 88 min / French
Michel Houellebecq travels to Guadeloupe to take part in a look-alike contest, whose jury is chaired by Blanche Gardin. But unforeseen events plunge the duo into the heart of a bizarre intrigue… An ironic, wry take on political correctness and present-day taboos.
Animateka 2024: Festival Opening Animateka 2024: Odprtje festivala
različni avtorji / various / 78 min
Special Opening Screening
Main Competition II (2024) Tekmovalni program II (2024)
različni avtorji / various / 75 min
The best new animated films from Central and Eastern Europe in the running for the Audience Award and the Jury Grand Prix. The filmmakers featured in this strand include animation legends and debut filmmakers alike, and everyone in between.