A 40-something crane operator Samir falls head over heels in love with swimming instructor Agathe. For lack of a better plan, he enlists as her student. The new comedy from the late French-Icelandic filmmaker, which premiered at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight sidebar last year, finds a man pretending he can't swim in order to get close to the lifeguard he loves. “Its utter and complete lack of cynicism makes the film, in its own miniature way, sort of extraordinary.” - The Hollywood Reporter. (English subtitles)
The Aquatic Effect L'effet aquatique
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Riddle of Fire Riddle of Fire
Weston Razooli
Sunday, 24. 11. 2024 / 14:30 / Main Hall
An offbeat 16mm adventure comedy from the point of view of four bandit children trying to tackle the recipe for the perfect blueberry pie. Embarking on a woodland odyssey, they meet a sect of poachers, a little girl with an elvish gift and a host of other bizarre characters.
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Cent’anni Cent’anni
Maja Doroteja Prelog
Sunday, 24. 11. 2024 / 17:00 / Main Hall
An emotional rollercoaster with heart-wrenching confessions and poetic visuals in the midst of beautiful natural sceneries, an unfiltered testament to love and change.
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Dahomey Dahomey
Mati Diop
Sunday, 24. 11. 2024 / 19:30 / Main Hall
In her beguiling work of speculative documentary the young French-Senegalese filmmaker charts the repatriation of stolen artefacts to Benin, interrogating colonial legacies, ancestry and the weight of history.