Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train that takes him thousands of miles across India, far away from home and family. He learns to survive alone in Calcutta, before being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, he sets off to find his family. Inspired by Saroo Brierley's touching true story, and nominated for six Oscars, Lion stars Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara and BAFTA winner Dev Patel.
What's On
No Other Land No Other Land
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Wednesday, 12. 03. 2025 / 17:30 / Main Hall
Maria Maria
Pablo Larraín
Wednesday, 12. 03. 2025 / 19:45 / Main Hall
Chilean director Pablo Larraín, known for Jackie and Spencer, returns with the third instalment of his unofficial trilogy about iconic, tragic women of the 20th century. The film imagines the last week in the life of the legendary opera diva Maria Callas as she struggles with the increasingly blurred lines between the celebrated ‘La Callas’ and the vulnerable, fragile Maria.
Dahomey Dahomey
Mati Diop
Wednesday, 12. 03. 2025 / 20:15 / Small 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.