Lasca of the Rio Grande

Monday, 07. 10. 2024 / 17:40 / Main Hall

Seventy-year-old Mahin lives alone in Tehran after her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, until an afternoon tea with friends leads her to break her solitary routine and revitalise her love life. However, as Mahin opens herself up to a new romance, what begins as an unexpected encounter quickly evolves into an unpredictable, unforgettable evening.

Monday, 07. 10. 2024 / 20:00 / Main Hall

This formally and politically radical futuristic fantasy about a women’s uprising, shot guerrilla-style for $200 on the streets of pre-gentrification New York, is a classic and a milestone of 1980s American feminist and underground cinema. Lizzie Borden created the film in dialogue with its performers (including Kathryn Bigelow), who play fictional versions of themselves.

Monday, 07. 10. 2024 / 20:30 / Small Hall

This visually stunning observational documentary is a tribute to a lively, important yet invisible community. An ecological western, shot in the former cradle of Neolithic Europe, it holds a mirror to contemporary mass consumer culture.