Kinosloga. Retrosex. 2024
Disappearing Verschwinden/Izginjanje
Andrina Mračnikar / Austria, Slovenia / 2022 / 99 min / Slovene, German
Filmmaker Andrina Mračnikar heads home to South Carinthia to investigate why the Slovenian language and culture are increasingly disappearing from everyday life. The documentary, which skilfully intertwines the personal and the political, won the Audience Award at the Diagonale Festival in Graz.
The Passengers of the Night Les passagers de la nuit
Mikhaël Hers / France / 2022 / 111 min / French
Paris in the 1980s. Left to support herself and two teenagers after her husband’s departure, Elisabeth finds work on her favourite late-night radio show. When a homeless 18-year-old girl walks into the studio one day, Elisabeth invites her into her home…
Memoir of War La douleur
Emmanuel Finkiel / France, Switzerland, Belgium / 2017 / 127 min / French
1944, occupied France. Gifted young writer Marguerite Duras and her husband Robert Antelme are active members of the resistance. When Robert is deported, Marguerite is prepared to do anything to save him. To do so, she releases herself into dangerous circumstances with local collaborator Rabier – but are his motives as pure as meets the eye, or is he trying to obtain to details of the resistance movement as an informer? Based on Marguerite Duras’s 1944 autobiographical novel, Pain.
MUTZENBACHER MUTZENBACHER
Ruth Beckermann / Austria / 2022 / 100 min / German
The renowned Austrian documentary film-maker Ruth Beckermann and 100 bold men stage a captivating documentary performance based on the infamous pornographic novel about the Viennese prostitute Josefina Mutzenbacher. “Because it’s about time women took a closer look at men too.” MUTZENBACHER is more than a film, it’s an experience!
Shorts for Adults: French Edition Kratki za odrasle: po francosko
različni avtorji / France / 77 min
Subversive, shocking, embarrassing and controversial, soak up the Midnight Special experience with the WTF Programme that brings together seventeen of the craziest short films around! Why don’t you step outside your comfort zone, be flabbergasted, shudder, roar with laughter or weep watching these two programmes selected with love to fire up the Animateka 2022? Adults Only (18+)
The Box Celica
Dušan Kastelic / Slovenia / 2017 / 13 min / No dialogue
‘The Box’ is full of gloomy beings, who spend their days in monotonous slumber. One day, a boy appears among them. He is different: happy, lively and curious. And the more he grows, the more he irritates his devilish neighbours…
Nitram Nitram
Justin Kurzel / Australia / 2021 / 112 min / English
What makes a mass murderer? The film is based on actual events that led to the worst massacre in modern Australia, the 1996 Port Arthur mass shooting in which 35 people were killed and 23 others were wounded. Best Actor Award at Cannes.
Cent’anni Cent’anni
Maja Doroteja Prelog / Slovenia, Serbia, Poland, Austria, Italy / 2024 / 87 min / Slovene
An emotional rollercoaster with heart-wrenching confessions and poetic visuals in the midst of beautiful natural sceneries, an unfiltered testament to love and change.
Dahomey Dahomey
Mati Diop / Senegal, France, Benin / 2024 / 67 min / French, English, Fon
A poetic documentary by Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop gives voice to artefacts returning from exile in France to their homeland, Benin, and listens to young people as they discuss the significance of this historic event.
Anselm Anselm
Wim Wenders / Germany / 2023 / 93 min / German, English
Using cutting-edge 3D technology, Wim Wenders takes us on a unique journey through the life and creations of Anselm Kiefer, one of Germany’s most important post-war artists. English subtitles.
Perfect Days Perfect Days
Wim Wenders / Japan / 2023 / 124 min / Japanese
Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside his highly structured daily routine, he enjoys his passion for music and books. And he also loves trees and takes photos of them … With Lou Reed, Patti Smith and Nina Simone on the soundtrack. Best Actor Award in Cannes and nominated for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.
As I Open My Eyes À peine j'ouvre les yeux
Leyla Bouzid / France, Tunisia / 2015 / 102 min / French, Slovene subtitles / 16+
Wisdom of Happiness Wisdom of Happiness
Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis / Switzerland / 2024 / 90 min / English
With disarming wit, the Dalai Lama reflects on balancing millennia-old Tibetan Buddhist traditions with the contemporary values of our globalised society that now struggles to overcome violence and war while standing on the brink of environmental collapse.
Mothers Eommadeul
Lee Dong-eun / South Korea / 2017 / 107 min / Korean
A restrained domestic drama centred on absence and the meaning of motherhood.
The Oddsockeaters Lichožrouti
Galina Mikli?nova? / Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia / 2017 / 83 min / Czech / 5+
Have a Nice Day Hao ji le
Liu Jian / China / 2017 / 77 min / Mandarin Chinese
In a desperate attempt at saving his fiancée from the consequences of failed cosmetic surgery, a young driver steals a bag containing a million yuan from his boss. As news of the event quickly spreads throughout the city, everyone embarks on a hunt for the man and the stolen money.