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LIFFe 2019

Europe in Short: Section 3 (2019) Evropa na kratko, 3. sklop (2019)

various / 93 min

Competition Programme

The Sound of Falling
GB, Taiwan, Colombia, 2019
directed by Chien-Yu Lin
screenplay
Chien-Yu Lin
cinematography
Luis Felipe Moncada
running time 13'

An impressionistic film portraying the loss of freedom and the fading of life due to the decision of an orchard keeper on one ordinary day.

III
Poland, 2018
directed by Marta Pajek
screenplay
Marta Pajek
animation
Marta Pajek, Grzegorz Flaga, Mateusz Frank, Malgorzata Mianowska, Aleksander Sobek, Agata Staszczuk
running time 12'

A man and a woman meet each other in the waiting room. Their encounter transforms into sexual exploration and the waiting room becomes the Garden of Eden.

Kryzoki Horse Riders
Poland, 2018
directed by Anna Gawlita
screenplay Anna Gawlita
cinematograpy
Tomasz Wolski
running time 20'

Equestrians traditionally gather in a small Polish village on Easter Sunday. Armed with prayer and Jesus Christ’s statue, they race on horses from village to village and spread the God’s massage in an almost fanatical ritual.

Siivooja Cleaning Woman
Finland, 2018
directed by Teemu Nikki
screenplay
Teemu Nikki
cinematography
Sari Aaltonen
cast
Elina Knihtilä, Tommi Eronen, Pihla Penttinen
running time 16'

Don’t we all want to become the one whom we serve?

L'an dernier quand le train passait Last Year When the Train Passed By
France, 2018
directed by
Pang-Chuan Huang
screenplay
Pang-Chuan Huang
cinematography
Pang-Chuan Huang
running time 17'

Pang-Chuan, whose Le Retour also stopped at LIFFe last year, is returning with a film that stops at certain locations he’d photographed on his previous train journey, and seeks to connect random and parallel lives of people.

To Plant a Flag
Norway, 2018
directed by Bobbie Peers
screenplay Bobbie Peers
cinematography
Jakob Ingimundarson cast Jason Schwartzman, Jake Johnson, Ingvar Sigurdsson
running time 14'

Sometimes it is easier to plant a flag on the Moon than in the vicinity of Icelandic farmers.

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Father Mother Sister Brother Father Mother Sister Brother

Jim Jarmusch

Wednesday, 04. 03. 2026 / 15:00 / Main Hall

Three stories, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, about the relationship between parents and their adult children. Jim Jarmusch’s “anti-action film” received the Golden Lion in Venice.

Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!

Igor Bezinović

Wednesday, 04. 03. 2026 / 16:30 / Small Hall

On 12 September 1919, a troop of some three hundred soldiers under the leadership of the flamboyant war-loving Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio swooped into the Northern-Adriatic port town of Fiume, now Rijeka, wanting to annex the city to Italy. Over the course of the next 16 months, during what is regarded as one of the most bizarre militant sieges of all time his official photography team captured over 10,000 images. A century later, Igor Bezinović orchestrates a direct-action history lesson focused on the siege and its modern-day implications.

The Secret Agent O agente secreto

Kleber Mendonça Filho

Wednesday, 04. 03. 2026 / 17:20 / Main Hall

Kleber Mendonça Filho (Aquarius) vividly conjures the colours, smells and sounds of 1970s Brazil – a time “when the walls had ears and any movement could be suspicious”. The Secret Agent is an unpredictable and witty political thriller, but above all, a loving portrait of a place and its people. Winner of Best Director and Best Actor at Cannes, as well as Best Actor (Drama) and Best Non-English Language Film at the Golden Globe Awards.