Kinosloga. Retrosex. 2024
Three Days of Fish Drie dagen vis
Peter Hoogendoorn / Netherlands, Belgium / 2024 / 85 min / Dutch
An intimate black-and-white drama, interlaced with dry Dutch humour, focuses on an estranged relationship between a father and his eccentric son.
Suspended Time Hors du temps
Olivier Assayas / France / 2024 / 105 min / French
In his most personal work yet, filmed in his childhood home, Olivier Assayas returns to his own past through the story of two brothers taking refuge in the French countryside during a lockdown.
Ten Skies Ten Skies
James Benning / USA / 2004 / 101 min
“I’m thinking of my landscape works now as anti-war artworks—they’re about the antithesis of war, the kind of beauty we’re destroying. The Ten Skies works came about because I’m thinking about what the opposite of war is” – James Benning
Cut Cut
Amir Naderi / Japan / 2011 / 132 min / Japanese
Shuji is a young filmmaker and devoted cinephile. He organises impromptu screenings of classic films on the roof of his apartment block and protests against multiplexes and the industry that is destroying the art of film on the streets of Tokyo. One day, he learns that his brother, who had helped finance his films, has been beaten to death by the Yakuza over unpaid debts. Shuji resolves to repay the debt by working as a human punching bag in the bathroom of the club where his brother was killed.
The Ship Brod
Elvis Lenić / Croatia / 2023 / 65 min / Croatian
After more than 160 years of existence, one of the largest Croatian shipyards, Uljanik, is closing down. The place where ships of impressive size and importance were manufactured and then sailed away has been turned into an industrial graveyard for wrecks, dysfunctional cranes and abandoned workshops that once teemed with life. Through a collage of observational footage, however, we now observe the almost post-apocalyptic landscape of the site. How did Pula’s originally important Austro-Hungarian shipping empire come to an end?
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum Zangiku monogatari
Kenji Mizoguchi / Japan / 1939 / 143 min / Japanese
Passages Passages
Ira Sachs / France / 2023 / 91 min / English, French
Independent American director Ira Sachs (Love is Strange) has depicted a brutally honest portrait of contemporary love–a story of intimacy, vulnerability, and lust, starring three stars of European arthouse film.
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Jiu Long cheng zhai: Wei cheng
Soi Cheang / Hong Kong, China / 2024 / 126 min
This action-packed Hong Kong martial arts film takes us into the heart of Kowloon Walled City, China’s infamous urban monolith and a lawless enclave with rampant criminal activity.
Nowhere Invelle
Simone Massi / Italy, Switzerland / 2023 / 90 min / Italian
Three children in three periods of Italian history: the World Wars I and II and the political turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s.
Manas Manas
Marianna Brennand / Brazil, Portugal / 2024 / 101 min / Portuguese
Documentary filmmaker Marianna Brennand’s feature debut is the result of a decade of research into child sexual abuse in the Amazon rainforest.
Limonov: The Ballad Limonov: The Ballad
Kiril Serebrenikov / Italy, Spain, France / 2024 / 138 min / English
A thrilling biography of the Russian writer Eduard Limonov, known for his turbulent private life, astonishing political transmutations and migrations between the Soviet Union, Europe and the USA.
Kinotrip’s Best of the World (2024) Kinotripov svetovni jagodni izbor (2024)
različni avtorji / various / 2024 / 77 min / 15+
Together with members of the Kinotrip Film Club we have selected the best animated shorts from around the world that speak to young people. It brings a youthfully offbeat, feistily engaged, and stylistically diverse set of eight films that take us into varied emotional landscapes.
Shorts for Adults II: A New World Rising Kratki za odrasle II: Novi svet
različni avtorji / various / 75 min
Uf, we survived the flood, and now everything is ruined. But something unexplored is forming from the watery chaos. Think of this land as a space for all kinds of possible futures. What do you see? What is your fantasy? A new planet, a hidden forest, or maybe Barbieland? Let’s emerge into these worlds together and be transformed by their infinite possibilities. Wake up—it’s time to rise and shine!
Best of the World III (2022) Svetovni jagodni izbor III (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.
Pure Till det som är vackert
Lisa Langseth / Sweden / 2010 / 101 min / Swedish, Slovene subtitles / 15+
Animals Tiere
Greg Zglinski / Switzerland, Poland, Austria / 2017 / 95 min / German
A richly nuanced and intriguing story of a young couple aiming to resolve their relationship crisis with a longer break in the Swiss Alps. When various narrative levels start to overlap, reality and fantasy slowly dissolve into each other.
Transit Transit
Christian Petzold / Germany, France / 2018 / 101 min / German, French
Marseille, present time. Refugees from across Europe dream of embarking on a ship to America to escape the fascist occupiers. Among them, the German Georg assumes the identity of a dead writer to take advantage of his visa. But everything changes when he falls in love with the secretive Marie… A film in which past and present meet, after Anne Segher’s 1942 novel of the same name, adapted by Christian Petzold (Phoenix, Barbara).
An Officer and a Spy J'accuse
Roman Polanski / France, Italy / 2019 / 133 min / French
Paris, 1895. Captain Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank for spying for Germany and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, who is promoted to run the military counter-intelligence unit that tracked him down. But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans, he is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honour but his life.
There Is No Evil Sheytan vojud nadarad
Mohammad Rasoulof / Germany, Iran, Czech Republic / 2020 / 151 min / Persian
Where'd You Go, Bernadette Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater / USA / 2019 / 111 min / English
An inspiring comedy about a loving mom who becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passion after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Bernadette’s leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jumpstarts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.