Film archive
Heavens Above Nebesa
Srdjan Dragojević / Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Germany, Croatia / 2021 / 120 min / Serbian
After half a century of communism and atheism, religion is back! But is Eastern European society ready for it? A working-class man wakes up with an aureole around his head; a criminal sentenced to death turns into a baby; an artist discovers that his paintings, apart from feeding people’s souls, also feed their stomachs. The film Heavens Above by Srdjan Dragojević (The Parade) was inspired by the French master of fiction, irony and the absurd, Marcel Aymé. Youth Jury Award in Locarno.
Wings of Desire Der Himmel über Berlin
Wim Wenders / Germany / 1987 / 128 min / Hebrew, Japanese, German, Spanish, Turkish, English, French
Wim Wenders’s hypnotic city symphony is a melancholic elegy to a still divided Berlin, and marked the director’s homecoming as his first German film following eight years in America.
Sami Blood Sameblod
Amanda Kernell / Sweden, Norway, Denmark / 2016 / 110 min / Swedish / 13+
Elle-Marja is a member of the Sami community and lives in the middle of Lapland in the 1930s. She is enrolled in the local school to gain a basic education, before being expected to return to the folds of her native people as soon as possible. But Elle-Marja begins to suspect this new and different world with its promise of infinite opportunities.
The Innocent L'Innocent
Louis Garrel / France / 2022 / 100 min / French
The French director and actor Louis Garrel packs his family memories into an imaginative, playful, and highly entertaining blend of crime, romance, and comedy.