Kinosloga. Retrosex 2023
February / The Blackcoat's Daughter February / The Blackcoat's Daughter
Osgood Perkins / Canada, USA / 2015 / 93 min / English
The Killing of a Sacred Deer The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Yorgos Lanthimos / United Kingdom, Ireland / 2017 / 121 min / English
Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman star in Yorgos Lanthimos’ signature mixture of Greek tragedy, existential horror and Hitchcockian psychodrama.
Skipping Stones Po gladini
Blaž Slana / Slovenia / 2016 / 19 min / Slovene
Winner for best LGBT Short Film at the Slovenian Film Festival.
Downsizing Downsizing
Alexander Payne / USA / 2017 / 135 min / English
An insightful social satire from Alexander Payne offering a humorous response to overpopulation: instead of reducing our consumption, we could simply opt to downsize ourselves… Opening film at the 2017 Venice Film Festival.
Menashe Menashe
Joshua Z Weinstein / USA / 2017 / 81 min / English, Yiddish
Featuring a young widower straying from the designated path while bending strict Hasidic rules in a Jewish enclave, Menashe is an orthodox take on the typical Woody Allen-esque eccentricity.
Wild Mouse Wilde Maus
Josef Hader / Austria / 2017 / 103 min / English, Italian, German
Kings must be treated with respect! At least according to George, an established music critic at a Viennese newspaper. When he is made redundant by the editor-in-chief, George covers up the news to his younger wife, who is desperate to conceive a child, and begins planning his own revenge…
Arrhythmia Aritmija
Boris Hlebnikov / Russia, Germany, Finland / 2017 / 116 min / Russian
A comedy-drama by one of the leading contemporary Russian directors about two young medical professionals whose long-standing relationship reaches a deadlock, Arrhythmia gives a telling critique of the healthcare system in present-day Russia.
Heartstone Hjartasteinn
Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson / Iceland / 2016 / 129 min / Icelandic
Facing adulthood and experiencing first love in a small rural community is as full of contrasts as the harsh nature of Iceland.
Requiem for Mrs. J Rekvijem za gospođu J.
Bojan Vuletić / Serbia / 2017 / 94 min / Serbian
Dissecting with Kafkaesque sombreness the mental anguish of a lonely widow who is secretly planning her death, Requiem for Mrs. J nevertheless contains a hefty dose of dark humour typical of the Balkans.
The Summer Is Gone Ba yue
Zhang Dalei / China / 2016 / 108 min / Mandarin Chinese
Zhang Dalei’s autobiographic feature debut highlights the contrast between melancholic atmosphere of Chinese privatisation reforms of the early 1990s and carefree childhood replete with cinematic images.
The Swan Svanurinn
Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir / Iceland / 2017 / 91 min / Icelandic
On a ‘forced summer exile’ to a farm a young Icelandic girl begins to realise that the adult world is far more complicated and callous than she has ever anticipated.
Zoologija Zoology
Ivan I. Tverdovski / Russia, Germany, France / 2016 / 91 min / Russian
A fantastic story about a woman who one day grows a tail, Zoology is a candid narrative about self-reinvention in mature years.
The Ornithologist O ornitólogo
João Pedro Rodrigues / Portugal, France, Brazil / 2016 / 118 min / English, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese
Foregrounding a lonesome birdwatcher, The Ornithologist is a mystical journey blending religious rapture and blasphemous naturalism, offering a personal take on the myth of Saint Anthony of Padua, the patron saint of Lisbon.
You Were Never Really Here You Were Never Really Here
Lynne Ramsay / United Kingdom, USA, France / 2017 / 90 min / English
Lynne Ramsay delivers a subtle character study that, disguised as a gritty, dark thriller, boldly defies the rules of the genre.
Radiance Hikari
Naomi Kawase / Japan, France / 2017 / 101 min / Japanese
A writer of film versions for the blind and visually impaired meets a photographer who is slowely losing his sight.
Mea Culpa Mea culpa
Fred Cavayé / France / 2014 / 90 min / French
A former policeman and his erstwhile partner buddy up to deal with a ferocious Serbian drug gang.
The Crew Braqueurs
Julien Leclercq / France / 2015 / 81 min / French
A head-on confrontation takes place between Parisian armoured-truck hijackers and a powerful drug gang in The Crew, a fast, daring and uncompromising thriller. Violent retribution will fall on the hijackers’ families if they fail in their task.
The Age of Shadows Miljeong
Kim Jee-woon / South Korea / 2016 / 140 min / English, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese
The adrenaline-ridden action movie based on real incidents brings to the screen the story of South Korean liberation movement against Japanese colonial rule.
The Bar El bar
Álex de la Iglesia / Spain / 2017 / 102 min / Spanish
An exhilarating, claustrophobic and off-the-wall thriller by the Spanish master of genre cinema, Álex de la Iglesia, tinged with a hefty dose of dark humour.
Stranger in Paradise Stranger in Paradise
Guido Hendrikx / Netherlands / 2016 / 77 min / English
A controversial role play in three acts about a controversial topic: the refugee crisis.
The Other Side of Everything Druga strana svega
Mila Turajlić / Serbia, France / 2017 / 100 min / Serbian
A locked door in an apartment in Belgrade, which has not been opened for more than 65 years, drives the desire to explore what comes after a democratic revolution.
In Praise of Nothing Slatko od ništa
Boris Mitić / Serbia / 2017 / 78 min / English
A whistleblowing documentary parable about Nothing, narrated – in simple childish verse – by Iggy Pop.