Film archive
The Witches of the Orient Les Sorcières de l’Orient
Julien Faraut / France / 2021 / 100 min
The Japanese volleyball players called the “Oriental witches” at the time of their global success are now in their seventies. Their extraordinary, still unmatched record of 258 consecutive wins was a symbol of a country’s rebirth, a legend that still echoes in the collective memory (and anime).
Polkovnikove pustolovščine Les Trois etc. du colonel / Le tre eccetera del colonnello
Claude Boissol / Italy, France / 1959
Mr. Hulot's Holiday Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
Jacques Tati / France / 1953 / 88 min
A masterpiece of poetic burlesque.
Nicholas on Holiday Les vacances du petit Nicolas
Laurent Tirard / France / 2014 / 97 min / Slovene subtitles, French / 7+
Eyes Without a Face Les yeux sans visage
Georges Franju / France, Italy / 1960 / 88 min / French
Georges Franju’s poetically surreal and chillingly visceral psychological nightmare is a bona fide classic of horror cinema, exquisitely photographed by Eugen Schüfftan (who crafted the visual effects on Fritz Lang’s Metropolis) and unravelling to a hypnotic original score by Maurice Jarre.
Summer Leto
Kirill Serebrennikov / Russia / 2018 / 126 min / English, Russian
Leningrad in a summer of the early 80s. A youth passionately devours the smuggled albums by Lou Reed and David Bowie; the underground scene is steaming like a kind of forerunner of Perestroika. The young Mike Naumenko and his beautiful wife Nataša meet the 19-year-old Viktor Tsoï. Together they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union. This film was inspired by the life of two key representatives of Russian rock music.
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.
Letter to Anna - The Story Of Journalist Politkovskaya’s Death Letter to Anna - The Story Of Journalist Politkovskaya’s Death
Eric Bergkraut / Switzerland, Germany / 2008 / 83 min