Film Under the Stars 2022

Boris Robič is an ordinary man. One evening, while reading a book in his apartment, shots are fired at him. No one understands what happened. Not him, not the police. After all, Boris lived a quiet, peaceful life and believed he had no enemies. But when the detective closes the case, Boris starts his own investigation… World premiere at the San Sebastián film festival.

Steven Spielberg reimagines West Side Story, the immortal tale of doomed love between Tony and Maria set in New York’s Upper West Side. He is a former member of the teen street gang the Jets. She is the sister of the head of the Puerto Rican rival Sharks… Along with its iconic Bernstein/Sondheim songs, the film features breathtaking new choreography.

Two single women meet in the hospital as they are about to give birth. Both pregnancies were unplanned. Middle-aged Janis has no regrets and is looking forward. The young Ana is regretful and scared. Their accidental meeting will transform their lives. The film brought Penélope Cruz the Best Actress Award in Venice.

A wonderfully uplifting tale about a 60-year-old taxi driver who stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery. Based on the remarkable true story of one man’s attempt to make a better world.

On a picturesque Croatian island, the restless 16-year-old Julija leads an isolated life under her father’s domineering hand. The tide changes when a charming old family friend arrives, sparking Julija’s yearning to set herself free. Executive producer: Martin Scorsese. Caméra d’or Award for the Best First Feature in Cannes.

In order to obtain funds for her scientific work, Alma is persuaded to participate in an extraordinary study. For three weeks, she has to live with a robot whose artificial intelligence is designed to be her perfect life partner. And so Alma meets Tom, a machine in human form created solely to make her happy… 

After having found himself in a nest of spies in Cairo and having lost himself in Rio, Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, aka Special Agent 117, is on a red alert rescue mission in black Africa. This spy parody starring Jean Dujardin (with more than a dash of Sean Connery) closed last year’s Cannes film festival.

A modern dramedy about the quest for love and meaning in contemporary Oslo. It chronicles four years in the life of Julie, a young woman navigating the troubled waters of her love life and struggling to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is. Award for Best Actress in Cannes.

Elvis is Baz Luhrmann’s epic, big-screen spectacle about the life and music of Elvis Presley. The story of the King of Rock and Roll is seen through the prism of his complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks). As told by Parker, the film covers over 20 years, from Presley’s rise to fame to his unprecedented stardom.

Two years after his wife’s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku, a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya at a theatre festival in Hiroshima. There, he meets Misaki Watari, a taciturn young woman assigned by the festival to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900… Inspired by a Haruki Murakami short and named after a Beatles song, Drive My Car won the Oscar for Best International Feature.

A young Finnish woman escapes a love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the Arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a Russian miner, this unexpected encounter leads the occupants of compartment no. 6 to face the truth about their own loneliness and yearning for human connection.

A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in The French Dispatch Magazine.

A hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action-adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman who can’t seem to finish her taxes. Seven Oscars, including Best Film. 

Eva is a young artist who smokes, drinks, occasionally takes drugs, parties and finds no creative inspiration. She also has a strange love affair with her mentor, her best friend is moving to Berlin, her paycheck is three months late and, above all, so is her period… Bitch is a film about a period in life when you simply get stuck and do not know how to move on.

A biting yet wickedly funny factory satire with Javier Bardem in the lead.

House of Gucci is inspired by the shocking true story of the family behind the Italian fashion empire. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge and ultimately… murder.

Dune – the big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s bestselling book – tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people.

A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature in this dark and atmospheric folktale. Prize of Originality, Un Certain Regard (Cannes), Best Film Sitges.

The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumours of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. There’s eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be very different. Spencer imagines what might have happened during those few fateful days.

In the heart of the Tibetan highlands, photographer Vincent Munier takes writer Sylvain Tesson on his quest to find the snow leopard. He introduces him to the subtle art of waiting in a blind spot, tracking animals and finding the patience to catch sight of the beasts. On their journey through the Tibetan peaks, inhabited by invisible presences, the two men engage in a conversation about our place among the living beings and celebrate the beauty of the world.

The merry members of a brass band from Slovenia travel by bus to perform in a small Austrian town. They sing, cheer and drink all the way there. Being part of a brass band is a joyful hobby for most members. However, not everything goes as planned… Five distinct stories tell us that hiding one’s actions and intentions is the best way to make them shameful.

The story of Alana and Gary growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973. Licorice Pizza tracks the treacherous navigation of first love.

When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle endears himself to the clairvoyant Zeena and her has-been mentalist husband Pete at a travelling circus, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York Society…

»What’s a bad miracle?« Oscar-winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with Get Out and Us. Now, he reimagines the summer movie with a new pop nightmare: the expansive horror epic Nope. This film reunites Peele with Oscar-winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers, Alice) and Steven Yeun (Minari, Okja) as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.