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Summer of 85 Été 85
François Ozon / France / 2020 / 100 min / French
When 16-year-old Alexis capsizes off the coast of Normandy, 18-year-old David heroically saves him. Alexis has just met the friend of his dreams. But will the dream last for more than one summer? With the tunes of The Cure, Bananarama and Rod Stewart, François Ozon takes us back to the days of his youth with a tale of friendship and first love.
The Summer of ’91 Poletje ’91
Žiga Virc / Slovenia / 2021 / 72 min / Slovene
An archival documentary by Žiga Virc (Houston, We Have a Problem!) that gives a fresh and unbiased insight into the everyday life of people in Slovenia at the crossroads of history. The product of an extensive campaign in which people were invited to send in their home videos, the film acts as an audio-visual time machine that takes viewers to the chaotic period before, during and after Slovenia’s independence.
The Summer of Sangaile Sangailes vasara
Alanté Kavaité / Lithuania, Netherlands, France / 2014 / 88 min / Slovene subtitles, Lithuanian / 15+
Summer with Monika Sommaren med Monika
Ingmar Bergman / Sweden / 1953 / 96 min / Swedish
Touted by critics as “Bergman’s most erotic film” and championed by the future talents of the French New Wave, Ingmar Bergman’s early masterpiece Summer with Monika is a sensuous and ultimately ravaging tale of young love, the pressures of gender roles and the hardships of working-class youth, captured in mesmerising atmospheric visuals by cinematographer Gunnar Fischer.
How I Learned to Fly Leto kada sam naučila da letim
Radivoje Andrić / Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia / 2022 / 87 min / Slovene subtitles, Croatian, Serbian / 9+
If you are looking forward to the summer holidays, consider yourself lucky you don’t have to spend it in the company of an embarrassing, eccentric grandmother, like 12 year old Sofia in How I Learned to Fly, winner of the ECFA Award in the BUFF festival.
Cops Cops
Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton / USA / 1922 / 18 min / Slovene subtitles, English Intertitles / 7+
Cop Secret Leynilögga
Hannes Thór Halldórsson / 2021 / 98 min / Icelandic
An amusing commentary on major action-film productions, such as the Fast & Furious series, offering several layers of complexity and an intelligent way of dealing with important social issues.