Kinosloga. Retrosex 2023

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.

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.

A film about different approaches to education – and the implications of these teaching systems for students and teachers.

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.

A middle-aged couple who, in the middle of an infidelity crisis, decide to open their marriage and venture into polyamory. A touching and humane portrait of grown-ups with growing pains.

This existential noir de noir, shot in widescreen format and stunning black-and-white technology, is considered one of the key Japanese gangster films.

An animated documentary about the escapades of three Hungarian friends in the early 1990s.

1955. Asteroid City, pop. 87. The town’s most famous attraction is a gigantic meteor crater and celestial observatory nearby. This weekend, the military and astronomers are welcoming five science-award-winning juniors to display their inventions… Meanwhile in New York, the characters of this story set in a fictional American desert town are on stage, preparing for a play titled Asteroid City…

This film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Damir Karakaš features wonderful photography of rural landscape, but also a testimony about commonplace brutality, exploring the reasons why innocent people become easy pray for ideological crusaders.

This debut feature from Belgian-Congolese musician, multimedia artist, and filmmaker Baloji is a phantasmagorical story of four characters accused of witchcraft. The winner of the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Festival and Belgian Oscar candidate.

Here are the immensely captivating Audrey Hepburn (“God kissed her on the cheek!”) and Cary Grant, charming and witty as ever, to take us on a journey through a spy thriller set in the Paris of the 1960s.

Filmed in Wisconsin and Michigan in subzero temperatures by indie film mavericks and best buddies Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews Hundreds of Beavers is a feature length live action incarnation of a Looney Tunes cartoon. Unwaveringly true to its cartoon logic from start to finish, this epic silent action comedy is endlessly inventive, inspiring, ingenious and downright insane.

Kaneto Shindo, a former assistant to Kenji Mizoguchi, described his most famous work as “a cinematic poem that seeks to capture the lives of people as they fight against the forces of nature like ants.”

Attractive middle-aged lawyer Mara’s life is disrupted by the sudden death of her only son. Trying to face the loss and find a way to move on, she forms an intimate relationship with a younger man, her son’s mate.

Rio de Janeiro, early 1970s. The Paiva family live a full and happy life in a house by the beach. One day, however, everything is turned upside-down when the military junta abducts the father. Director Walter Salles (Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries) based his heartbreaking film on memoirs written by the son of the seven-member family. 

17-year-old Sam goes on a camping trip with her father and his best friend. The two men josh and joke as they hike, stressing about their careers and cracking dirty jokes. Sam mostly puts up with it – until one of them crosses the line. 

Ops, have you noticed there’s water in our ship and now we’re sinking? And there’s no guide on what to do next! Existential meltdown, funeral, eerie trip to a luxurious place, or party in a gay club? Maybe we should just sing a swan song to the world as we know it. The melody may be bittersweet and absurd, yet still chasing the new horizon. Sometimes we need to hit rock bottom before we reemerge.

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.

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.

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.

Yet another acutely topical provocation from the notable Romanian director, an unfiltered social critique of the vices of the zeitgeist, displaying indelicate wit and blatant bad manners.

In the near future, where artificial intelligence rules, human emotions have become a threat. To get rid of them, Gabrielle must purify her DNA with a device that takes her back to her past lives. There, she is reunited with Louis, her great love. But she is overwhelmed by fear, a premonition of impending disaster…