Film archive
Memoir of a Snail Memoir of a Snail
Adam Elliot / Australia / 2024 / 93 min / English
This new tragicomic tale by Oscar winner Adam Elliot takes us into the world of Grace Pudel, an obsessive collector of snail statuettes whose life is marked by freak accidents and too many deaths.
Memoria Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Colombia, Qatar, China, Mexico, Thailand, Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, France / 2021 / 136 min / Spanish, English
In his first film, shot outside his homeland, the Thai poet Apichatpong Weerasethakul, together with Tilda Swinton and Jeanne Balibar, takes us on a secret inner journey, triggered by a big bang. A film to be watched in the cinema! Jury Prize in Cannes.
Memories Within Miss Aggie Memories Within Miss Aggie
Gerard Damiano / USA / 1974 / 75 min / English
The Top Dog of the Golden Age of Porn, Gerard Damiano, follows up the cult hits Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones with what is likely the most bizarre and singular porno ever made. The Memories within Miss Aggie is a shocking, morbid, but also steamily erotic and at times heart-rending film, a compact masterpiece of hardcore erotica directed by a daring auteur.
Memory Memory
Michel Franco / Mexico, USA / 2023 / 100 min / English
A love story about a woman who can’t forget and a man who can’t remember. Sylvia lives a simple and orderly life: a daughter, a job, AA meetings. But everything is turned upside down when Saul follows her home one night from her high-school anniversary…
Memory Box Memory Box
Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige / France, Canada, Lebanon / 2021 / 102 min / English, Arabic, French
An unexpected package reopens old wounds from Lebanon’s civil war while creating an opportunity to finally heal them.
Men Men
Alex Garland / United Kingdom / 2022 / 100 min / English
Young Harper rents an idyllic country house in a remote English village to find her peace and recover after her husband’s death. But it seems that someone or something from the nearby forest is stalking her… The horror film by Alex Garland (Ex_Machina) saw its world première in this year’s Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival.
Menashe Menashe
Joshua Z Weinstein / USA / 2017 / 81 min / English, Yiddish
Featuring a young widower straying from the designated path while bending strict Hasidic rules in a Jewish enclave, Menashe is an orthodox take on the typical Woody Allen-esque eccentricity.
Vaški demon Menschen in den Bergen / Lidé pod horami (nem. verzija)
Václav Wasserman, CS/GER 1938 / 1938
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Nagisa Oshima / United Kingdom, Japan / 1983 / 123 min / Japanese, English
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is a powerful antiwar film directed by Nagisa Oshima, but also a lasting testimony of David Bowie’s on-screen magnetism and charisma. With this 40th anniversary screening we also pay tribute to one of the great composers for film, Ryuichi Sakamoto.