Brazilija, Portugalska, 2024, 101'
Režija: Marianna Brennand
Screenplay: Camila Agustini, Carolina Benevides, Marianna Brennand, Marcelo Grabowsky, Antonia Pellegrino, Felipe Sholl
Cinematography: Pierre de Kerchove
Cast: Jamilli Correa (Marcielle), Fátima Macedo (Danielle), Rômulo Braga (Marcílio), Dira Paes (Aretha), Samira Eloá (Cynthia), Enzo Maia (Marcéu), Emily Pantoja (Carol), Gabriel Rodrigues (Danilio)
Producent: Inquietude & Globo Filmes & Canal Brasil & Pródigo & Fado Filmes
Documentary filmmaker Marianna Brennand's feature debut is the result of a decade of research into child sexual abuse in the Amazon rainforest.
Island of Marajó, Amazon rainforest. Marcielle lives by the riverbanks with her father, mother, and three siblings. Prompted by her mother's words, she idolizes her older sister who supposedly escaped her reality by "finding a good man". As she matures, her idealized visions shatter, leaving her trapped between two abusive environments. Increasingly worried about her younger sister and the bleak future they face, she decides to confront the oppressive system that controls her family and the women in their community.
It was during a documentary research project in the remote villages of the Amazon rainforest that I met women who had endured immense trauma since a tender age, suffering sexual abuse inside their homes while also being sexually exploited at commercial barges with hardly any chance to escape. Unfortunately, most of us women have a story of abuse, be it of a sexual, moral, or psychological nature, which has left deep scars and trauma. /.../ Through Manas, I want to give a voice to these women and girls who would never be heard otherwise, honoring the stories they shared with me.
Marianna Brennand
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Talk within the framework of the focus My Country Is the Best Place to Be Young
The talk will be hosted by: Dr. Matejka Grgič
Directed by: Leonardo van Dijl
Belgium, Sweden, 2024, 97'
Hungary, 2024, 119'
Directed by: Szimler Balint
Screenplay: Balint Szimler
Cinematography: Marcell Rév
Music: Dorka Lajhó, Péter Sabák
Cast: Paul Mátis (Palkó), Anna Mészöly (Juci), Ákos 'Dadan' Kovács (Ákos), Inez Mátis (Hermina), Gábor Ferenczi (Kornél), Lökös Ildikó (Ildikó), László Nádasi Zoli), Eszter Márton (Eszter), Zsuzsanna Bruck (Zsuzsa), Gábor Dragon (ravnatelj), Judit Gombos (Magdi)
Producent: Boddah & CineSuper
Ten-year-old Palkó has recently relocated from Germany to his home country of Hungary and is struggling to adapt to the strictly regulated school environment after being accustomed to a more easy-going educational approach. Used to speaking in class, eating whenever he likes, doing things at his own pace and resisting orders, he is quickly labelled as the "difficult kid". Meanwhile, the new literature teacher Juci tries not only to comfort Palkó and gain his trust, but also to suggest a different approach to engaging the students, one that goes beyond merely following the curriculum. However, she remains as isolated as Palkó in her quiet rebellion.
I grew up in the USA. When I was nine, we moved back home. For me, it was a culture shock to move back. It was 1996, which means there was an even bigger difference between the two countries back then. This whole topic stuck with me. I always felt like an outsider and reflected on this feeling. There's this saying that if you want to know a society, you have to see how they behave with their children.
Balint Szimler
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Brazilija, Portugalska, 2024, 101'
Režija: Marianna Brennand
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Country, year: Spain, USA, 2024, 110'
Screenplay: Agathe Riedinger
Cinematography: Noé Bach
Music: Audrey Ismael
Cast: Malou Khébizi (Liane Pougy), Idir Azougli (Dino), Andréa Bescond (Sabine), Ashley Romano (Alicia), Alexis Manenti (Nathan), Kilia Fernane (Stéphanie), Léa Gorla (Carla), Alexandra Noisier (Jessy), Antonia Buresi (Alexandra Ferrer), Sandra Bijou, Francesca Giromella (Sandra), Guillaume Verdier (Cédric), Gaëtan Thomas (Franck), Jean-Jacques Rouviere (Laurent)
Producent: Silex Films
Distribution: Fivia d.o.o.
While considered low-brow entertainment and looked down upon for its exaggeration, some see reality TV as their chance at a better life.
Liane, 19 years old, daring and fiery, lives with her mother and little sister under the dusty sun of Fréjus in the South of France. Obsessed with beauty and the need to become "someone", she sees reality TV as her opportunity to be loved. Fate smiles upon her when she auditions for a reality TV show called Miracle Island. When she tells the woman who auditions her that she wants viewers to see "the real me," we wonder what that would be. So much of her - the prongs of her fake fingernails, her mouth swollen with acid, her unlikely abundance of hair, her grotesquely inflated breasts - is so proudly unreal that a real self is hard to pinpoint.
I've been watching reality TV for a very long time. I felt the need to question the entertainment that it is supposed to be, but which in fact has nothing light about it /.../. It's a mirror of a society that promotes increasingly extreme values. But when I thought about the candidates' motivations, I realised that for them, most of whom come from working-class backgrounds, it is paradoxically also an alternative to unemployment and a means of gaining access to social status, of ticking the boxes that capitalist society orders us to be in through the values manufactured by money. This ambivalence was very interesting.
Agathe Riedinger
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Directed by: Kiril Serebrenikov
Italy, Spain, France, 2024, 138'
Brazilija, Portugalska, 2024, 101'
Režija: Marianna Brennand
Directed by: Kiril Serebrenikov
Italy, Spain, France, 2024, 138'
Screenplay: Pawel Pawlikowski, Ben Hopkins, Kiril Serebrenikov, Emmanuel Carrere
Cinematography: Roman Vasjanov
Music: Massimo Pupillo
Cast: Ben Whishaw (Eddie), Viktoria Mirošničenko (Elena), Tomas Arana (Stephen), Corrado Invernizzi (Lonja), Evgenij Mironov (Kuznecov), Andrej Burkovski, Maša Maškova (Ana), Odin Lund Biron (Ethan)
Producent: Wildside & Fremantle
Distribution: Fivia d.o.o.
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.
Eduard Limonov (1943-2020) switched between many identities in his lifetime: A poet, exile, political leader, a revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a lover of beautiful women, a political agitator and a novelist who wrote of his own greatness. Limonov lived many lives, although much of what he said about himself has been contested as questionable self-mythologising - which only adds to his mystique. Eduard Limonov's life story is a journey through Russia (where he founded the National Bolshevik Party), America and Europe. It is based on Emmanuel Carr?re's 2011 book Limonov, a novelized biography of the Russian dissident.
Ben Whishaw has never had a role quite as complex and contradictory as that of Limonov, and he rises to the occasion with a transformative lead turn that's most compelling in its depiction of how malignant narcissism can sour romantic desperation into something uglier and more grimly depressing. It's a fascinating, slow-motion car crash of a performance: destined for destruction, spiralling magnificently all the way down.
Isaac Feldberg, Little White Lies
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Directed by: Leonardo van Dijl
Belgium, Sweden, 2024, 97'
Screenplay: Ruth Becquart, Leonardo van Dijl
Cinematography: Nicolas Karakatsanis
Cast: Tessa Van den Broeck (Julie), Koen De Bouw (Tom), Claire Bodson (Sofie), Laurent Caron (Jeremy), Ruth Becquart (Liesbeth), Stefan Gota, Pierre Gervais (Backie), Julliette De Hous (Juliette)
Producent: De Wereldvrede
Distribution: Demiurg
Belgian tennis prodigy Tessa Van den Broeck makes her screen debut in this story about a talented athlete who decides to keep silent after her coach is accused of misconduct.
Everyone at an exclusive Belgian tennis academy is shocked when its demanding head coach, Jeremy, is suspended pending a misconduct investigation into the suicide of a former star pupil. All eyes turn to Jeremy's current favourite, Julie. Brimming with athletic promise, she's been working closely with Jeremy, and he's still texting her every day. But rather than talk to investigators, this tough and focused teenager chooses to process her emotional upheaval on her own. Aware that this moment could make or break her whole career, she's not about to let anyone else seize the advantage.
t's a film about silence. I approached the movie with the idea that silence is universal, and we all somehow have silences in us. I use the word "silence", not "secrets". Silence can be things that you don't want to talk about, that you don't know how to talk about, that you would like to talk about but can't, or that you're not able to talk about. I felt the question of silence was the right angle to tell my story, and to talk about the world we live in.
Leonardo van Dijl
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Directed by: Joshua Oppenheimer
Denmark, Ireland, Germany, UK, Italy, USA, Sweden, 2024, 148'
Screenplay: Rasmus Heisterberg, Joshua Oppenheimer
Cinematography: Mikhail Krichman
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, Danielle Ryan, Tim McInnerny, Bronagh Gallagher, Lennie James
Producent: Final Cut For Real Aps
Distribution: Fivia d.o.o.
A musical in the Golden Age of the Broadway style about one of the last families on Earth. The family's seemingly perfect existence in an underground compound is threatened by the sudden arrival of a stranger.
What seems to be the last remaining human family on Earth hide in an ornate bunker built deep inside a salt mine after environmental collapse has destroyed society. Born in this compound, George is a naive twenty-year-old who has never set foot in the outside world. He spends his days working on a dubious book with his father, a former energy tycoon, while his mother frets over the upkeep of the many priceless paintings and artworks adorning their walls. But when a woman from the outside arrives at their doorstep seeking refuge, the family's delicate dynamic starts to crumble as George begins to question the apparent normality of their life.
Musicals are a uniquely American form that embodies a uniquely American cultural phenomenon of radical, groundless optimism. This family, in denial about helping to bring about the end of the world, is trying to celebrate their future when there is no future. That's just ripe for music and song and being explored in the tradition of the great American musical.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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Directed by: Jacques Audiard
France, Mexico, USA, 2024, 2024, 130'
Screenplay: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Nicolas Livecchi, Léa Mysius
Cinematography: Paul Guilhaume
Music:Camille, Clément Ducol
Cast: Zoe Saldana (Rita Moro Castro), Selena Gomez (Jessi), Edgar Ramírez (Gustavo), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Perez/Juan Del Monte), Mark Ivanir, Adriana Paz (Epifanía), James Gerard, Eric Geynes, Tulika Srivastava, Agathe Bokja, Alonso Venegas Flores, Cyrus Khodaveisi
Producent: Why Not Productions & Page 114 & Pathé Films & Saint Laurent
Production & France 2 Cinéma
Distribution: Fivia d.o.o.
A fiery trans gangster musical fuelled by Mexican soap opera devices, Emilia Pérez won two awards at Cannes, becoming the most awarded film of the festival's 77th edition.
Rita Mora Castro is a hard-working attorney getting slightly frustrated with the fact that her clients tend to be drug lords, murderers and wealthy abusers. One night, Rita is kidnapped and whisked off to meet cartel boss Manitas, who has an odd request for her. This powerful drug lord, who's already been taking hormone treatments for two years, wants to have gender confirmation surgery. Rita is left with no choice but to accept his offer. With her life turning into a psychedelic roller coaster ride, Rita could quickly find herself on the wrong side of the law.
My intention was about the transition identity, which was the chapter in the novel that gave me the idea for this film. I wanted the film to be set in Mexico, which I believe is a bit of a schizophrenic country, and these two elements, somehow the transition of Manitas Del Monte was Emilia Pérez, the change of gender was to be matched, in my opinion, with a change in the genre. Because I wanted it to be a soap opera and a musical comedy, a narcos film, something where you could not really grasp a label, something that was still very fluid. A drama that kept on changing and not being labeled
Jacques Audiard
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Directed by and screenplay: Sean Baker
USA, 2024, 139'
Cinematography: Drew Daniels
Music: Keith Joseph Anderson, Roman Molino Dunn, Bryn Evans
Cast: Mikey Madison (Ani), Mark Eidelshtein (Ivan), Jurij Borisov (Igor), Paul Weissman (Nick), Lindsey Normington (Diamond), Emily Weider (Nikki), Luna Sofía Miranda (Lulu), Vincent Radwinsky (Jimmy), Brittney Rodriguez (Dawn), Sophia Carnabuci (Jenny), Anton Bitter (Tom), Ella Rubin (Vera), Ross Brodar (varnostnik), Zoë Vnak (Rachel)
Producent: Cre Films
Distribution: Karantanija Cinemas
Shot in his signature style, Sean Baker's comedy-drama continues the director's deeply humanist exploration of social issues. Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Anora, an exotic dancer and a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets the son of a Russian oligarch. Still green around the gills, this immature youngster is a godsend for Anora, who dreams of being a class defector, imagining leaving behind her miserable life of wandering hands and dawn subway rides. The two lovebirds jet off to Las Vegas, because it's rumoured that the drugs are better there. The couple marry on a whim. Once the news reaches Russia, Anora's fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
Splenetically hilarious for more than two hours before reality catches up with it in the film's unforgettable final scene, Anora has next to nothing to do with romance, and almost everything to do with the kind of working-class heartache that a modern Hollywood studio would never even try to get right.
David Ehrlich, IndieWire
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Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Country, year: Spain, USA, 2024, 110'
Screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar, Sigrid Nunez
Cinematography: Eduard Grau
Music: Alberto Iglesias
Cast: Tilda Swinton (Martha), Julianne Moore (Ingrid), John Turturro (Damian Cunningham), Alex Hogh Andersen, Alessandro Nivola, Esther McGregor, Melina Matthews, Juan Diego Botto, Victoria Luengo
Producent: El Deseo
Distribution: Blitz film & video distribution d.o.o.
Pedro Almodóvar won the Golden Lion at this year's Venice Film Festival for his first English-language feature, dealing with the controversial topic of euthanasia.
Ingrid and Martha have been close friends since their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter. Eventually, they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme situation. Martha is in the hospital fighting a battle with cancer. Her illness is serious: she's undergoing a highly experimental immunotherapy treatment, but her chances are slim. She wants to find a house upstate and end her life in peace - but she wants Ingrid to come with her, and to be in the room next door when it happens.
People talk a lot in my films. Among all the narrative elements, it is the actors who really tell the story. In The Room Next Door Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore carry the weight of the whole film on their shoulders, and they are a spectacle. I have been fortunate in that both give a veritable recital. At times during shooting, both the crew and I were on the verge of tears watching them. It was a very moving shoot and, in some way, blessed.
Pedro Almodovar
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France, Japan, 2023, 109'
By: Nicolas Philibert
Distribution: Demiurg
On the occasion of the presentation of the Darko Bratina Award to director Nicolas Philibert
The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with the guests. In collaboration with Tribute to a Vision festival
Despite addressing a difficult topic, On the Adamant, a look at the lives of patients with mental disorders at a Parisian day-care centre, is full of humour and playfulness. Radiating genuine warmth, it promotes tolerance and calls on society to accept diversity. Winner of the Golden Bear Award at the 2023 Berlinale.
The Adamant is a unique day-care centre. A floating structure located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering the kind of care that grounds them in time and space and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanisation of psychiatry as best as they can.
Nicolas Philibert’s observation over an extended period of time is motivated by a genuine and contagious interest in all that moves within a community. This gentle, enlightening film invites us to join the welcoming microcosm of The Adamant, celebrating diversity and fostering a sense of our common humanity.
“I didn’t want to make a film about psychiatry which would lead viewers into an inevitably and eternally sombre world. When you spend time with patients in a place like The Adamant, you find people who seem to be suffering and others who don’t, who have found a kind of balance in their lives, who live with their illness, who have managed to control it and accept it. This balance might sometimes seem a bit wild, or unique to say the least, but there are some really educated, incredibly lucid people there, who are often funny too, even when the situation doesn’t call for it.” (Nicolas Philibert)
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On the Adamant (Sur l'Adamant; r. N. Philibert)
Founder and main co-funder of Cankarjev dom’s Arts and Culture programme
