Frederick Wiseman’s film takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. It is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings. In a perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors, film watches painting watches film.
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Mary Anning Mary Anning
Marcel Barelli
Sunday, 23. 11. 2025 / 15:00 / Main Hall
The animated film depicts palaeontologist Mary Anning at the age of twelve. A curious, brave and unruly girl who breaks the rules and norms of her time at a young age, she later becomes one of the first female scientists.
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Sandbag Dam Zečji nasip
Čejen Černić Čanak
Sunday, 23. 11. 2025 / 16:45 / Main Hall
A story of forbidden love in the Croatian countryside, where the boundaries of tolerance are too narrow for a tumultuous youthful romance.
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Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović
Sunday, 23. 11. 2025 / 17:30 / 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.