Patricija Maličev in conversation with Jovanović's colleagues and companions – Ljubiša Ristić, Rade Šerbedžija, Milena Zupančič and Boris Cavazza.
Production of the exhibition Dušan Jovanović – Cultural Terrorist: Slovenski gledališki inštitut (Slovenian Theatre Institute) and Cankarjev dom
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Country, year: Spain, USA, 2024, 110'
Directed by: Joshua Oppenheimer
Denmark, Ireland, Germany, UK, Italy, USA, Sweden, 2024, 148'
Written by: James Mangold, Jay Cocks, based on Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric!
Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Edward Norton, Monica Barbaro, Scoot McNairy
Distribution: Blitz
Mangold’s biopic follows Minnesota musician Bob Dylan's meteoric rise as a folk singer, from the early 1960s when he arrived in New York to visit the ailing Woody Guthrie, to concert halls and the top of the charts – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
Dedicated to the formative years of the "voice of a generation", with lead actor Timothée Chalamet performing Dylan’s songs himself, the musical drama focuses on the era-defining star’s early complicated romantic relationships with Sylvie Russo and Joan Baez, as well as his relationship with his fans and the press, which he made a point of avoiding.
I don’t feel pressure to define Bob for the ages and all his work over decades. I’m just talking about the moment that this guy blossomed, he became empowered, and then moved on. And where he moved to is either another movie or another writer’s business.
James Mangold
6,50 EUR
5,50 EUR * * EUR for younger than 25 and older than 65, as well as pensioners.
Directed by: Kiril Serebrenikov
Italy, Spain, France, 2024, 138'
Directed by: Joshua Oppenheimer
Denmark, Ireland, Germany, UK, Italy, USA, Sweden, 2024, 148'
Germany, 2024, 124'
Directed by: Andreas Dresen
Screenplay: Laila Stieler
Cinematography: Judith Kaufmann
Cast: Liv Lisa Fries (Hilde Coppi), Johannes Hegemann (Hans Coppi), Lisa Wagner (Anneliese Kühn), Alexander Scheer (duhovnik Harald Poelchau), Emma Bading (Ina Ender-Lautenschläger), Sina Martens (Libertas Schulze-Boysen), Lisa Hrdina (Grete Jäger), Lena Urzendowsky (Liane Berkowitz), Hans-Christian Hegewald (Albert Hößler), Nico Ehrenteit (Harro Schulze-Boysen), Jacob Keller (Heinrich Scheel)
Producent: Pandora Film Produktion
Distribution: Cinemania
A drama based on the lives of real Nazi resistance fighters, foregrounding the quiet strength of a young woman defying the regime in Nazi prisons with a principled stand and a belief in human kindness.
Berlin, 1942. The inconspicuous, kind and compassionate Hilde with no interest in politics to speak of, gradually finds her place in the resistance group which will come to be known as the "Red Orchestra". Hilde falls in love with the slightly shy Hans, flourishes and, in spite of the constant danger to her life, is happy for a summer. When the Gestapo arrest members of the group in the autumn, the pregnant Hilde is among their number. In prison, she develops unexpected strength, giving birth to her son and keeping the memory of her beloved husband alive. With her principled moral stand, Hilde becomes the face of all those Germans who refused to embrace the delusional ideology of the Third Reich.
We tried to create human beings and avoid stepping into the cliches of the Nazis. When we create human beings you can compare with them, and decide 'Which side would I have been on? Would I have been a kind of opportunist working for the Nazis or would I have joined the Resistance fighters, even if was dangerous?' /…/ It would be nice if the audience thought about how they react to things going on in our society right now: this is not just a period movie.
Andreas Dresen
6,50 EUR
5,50 EUR * * EUR for younger than 25 and older than 65, as well as pensioners.
Denmark, Sweden, Poland, 2024, 115'
Directed by: Magnus von Horn
Directed by: Jacques Audiard
France, Mexico, USA, 2024, 2024, 130'
Denmark, Sweden, Poland, 2024, 115'
Directed by: Magnus von Horn
Screenplay: Line Langebek Knudsen, Magnus von Horn
Cinematography: Michal Dymek
Music: Frederikke Hoffmeier
Cast: Vic Carmen Sonne (Karoline), Trine Dyrholm (Dagmar), Besir Zeciri (Peter), Ava Knox Martin (Erena), Joachim Fjelstrup (Jorgen), Tessa Hoder (Frida), Ari Alexander (Svendsen), Per Thiim Thim (Olaf Jensen), Soren Satter-Lassen, Dan Jakobsen, Anna Tulestedt, Thomas Kirk, Benedikte Hansen (Peter Secher Schmidt), Agnieszka Przyborowska-Mitrosz
Producent: Nordisk Film Production & EC1 & Lava Films & Lower Silesia Film Centre & Film i Väst
Distribution: Fivia d.o.o.
The Girl With The Needle is inspired by true events surrounding the most controversial murder case in Danish history.
Karoline, a young factory worker, finds herself abandoned and pregnant while striving to climb out of poverty in post WWI Copenhagen. Amidst her struggles, she meets Dagmar, a charismatic woman running a hidden adoption agency within a candy store, helping poor mothers in finding foster homes for their unwanted children. To escape poverty, Karoline takes on the role of a wet-nurse. A strong connection is formed between the two women, yet Karoline's world shatters as she stumbles upon the dreadful revelation of the nightmarish fate she unknowingly embraces.
The main character, Karoline, is struggling to find a better life. But what is the right way of doing so? A cold world creates cold methods and Karoline's moral compass easily loses direction. The good looks bad and vice versa. We follow Karoline on a journey trying to escape poverty where she learns that it is easy to flirt with the devil but it takes a big effort to love. For a woman like Karoline, life becomes a living hell - and with this film I wanted to explore if it is possible to be good in hell.
Magnus von Horn
6,50 EUR
5,50 EUR * * EUR for younger than 25 and older than 65, as well as pensioners.
Directed by and screenplay: Sean Baker
USA, 2024, 139'
Directed by: Kiril Serebrenikov
Italy, Spain, France, 2024, 138'
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
6,50 EUR
5,50 EUR * * EUR for younger than 25 and older than 65, as well as pensioners.
My profession gives me the privilege of not only serving the traditional client — an organization — but also, occasionally, the public. Specifically, I respond when the engagement of civil society is needed. A visual commentary has to be quick, clear, and hopefully not banal. In a time when we are overwhelmed with messages, the speed of communication is the greatest advantage of visual commentary.
It can communicate up to 30.000-times faster than the written word. In the book »Visual Commentary,« I have gathered over 120 commentaries since the year 2000, going back to my student years when I created my first anti-war poster, Rifle War Wear. While exhibitions leave significant marks in time, a book serves as a more enduring document. »Visual Commentary« provides a visual overview of the past two decades, which have been anything but good.
Although my contribution is relatively small, my motto since high school has been: Contribute as much as you can and do not diminish the contributions of others. Every day, my classmates and I would read, or at least subliminally perceive, Plečnik's inscription on the facade of the Secondary School for Design and Photography in Križanke: »You are fleeting; only your works remain.« Plečnik could not have given a more fitting message in his last creation. The turbulent events of the past decades have not fuelled my work, but they have engaged me as a citizen. Having the knowledge and skills of visual communication at my disposal,
I feel responsible to use them. After all, designing visual messages is a vocation, not merely a job, is it not?
As I return to teaching after a long break this year, my natural instinct has urged me to approach my work introspectively, and even more so, to evaluate the formative history of our society. A visual introspective. This is not about a portfolio; it is about visual stimulation that can serve as a madeleine to encourage self-reflection,
or as a means to contextualise recent times.
Photo Primož Pičulin, Gorenjski Glas
Kultura se vrača, oblikovanje Tomato Košir
Directed by: Jacques Audiard
France, Mexico, USA, 2024, 2024, 130'
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
6,50 EUR
5,50 EUR * * EUR for younger than 25 and older than 65, as well as pensioners.
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Country, year: Spain, USA, 2024, 110'
Directed by: Leonardo van Dijl
Belgium, Sweden, 2024, 97'
Screenplay: Peter Straughan
Cinematography: Stéphane Fontaine
Cast: Ralph Fiennes (Lawrence), Stanley Tucci (Bellini), Sergio Castellitto (Tedesco), John Lithgow (Tremblay), Lucian Msamati (Adeyemi), Isabella Rossellini (sestra Agnes), Carlos Diehz (Benitez), Brían F. O'Byrne (O'Malley)
Producent: FilmNation Entertainment
Distribution: Blitz film & video distribution d.o.o.
One of the world's most secretive and ancient events - electing a new Pope - as seen through the eyes of a Cardinal trying to preserve his faith and avoid becoming ensnarled in a web of intrigues that has cast a shadow over Vatican.
When the Pope unexpectedly dies, Cardinals from all over the world rush to the Vatican, where they immediately sequester themselves. Digital devices are stashed, doors are locked, and windows are shuttered as they prepare for the election of a new leader. Cardinal Lawrence oversees the proceedings, assuming that the contest will come down to a battle between the reactionary, openly racist Cardinal Tedesco and the liberal progressive Cardinal Bellini. And matters soon turn complicated as rumours circulate, secrets emerge, and acts of sabotage are undertaken. Lawrence finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy and discovers a secret that could shake the very foundation of The Church.
It is a universal story. It could be a board room, or it could be politics, or it could be how to get on the field in the football team, and fight for that position in the squad. It could be the same story. And that's why I think in the end it's a universal power struggle story. That's what drew me to it.
Edward Berger
6,50 EUR
5,50 EUR * * EUR for younger than 25 and older than 65, as well as pensioners.
Denmark, Sweden, Poland, 2024, 115'
Directed by: Magnus von Horn
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
7,00 EUR
6,20 EUR * * EUR for younger than 25 and older than 65, as well as pensioners.
Directed by: Leonardo van Dijl
Belgium, Sweden, 2024, 97'
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Spain, USA, 2024, 110'
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
7,00 EUR
6,20 EUR * * EUR for younger than 25 and older than 65, as well as pensioners.
Directed by: Kiril Serebrenikov
Italy, Spain, France, 2024, 138'
Directed by: Leonardo van Dijl
Belgium, Sweden, 2024, 97'
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