Film archive
Holy Spider Ankabut-e moqaddas
Ali Abbasi / Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France / 2022 / 118 min / Persian
Inspired by the true story of a notorious Iranian serial killer who murdered 16 prostitutes in the name of religion, the film is a bold condemnation of a culture of deeply rooted misogyny. Directed by the Iranian-Swedish director Ali Abbasi, this “Persian Noir” won the lead actress the Best Actress Award at Cannes.
The Lighthouse The Lighthouse
Robert Eggers / USA, Canada / 2019 / 110 min / English
“Nothing good happens when two men are left alone in a giant phallus.” A hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers (Dafoe and Pattinson) on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Bright Nights Helle Nächte
Thomas Arslan / Germany, Norway / 2017 / 86 min / German
Michael, a building engineer living in Berlin, finds out that his father has died. He heads for to the funeral in a remote part of northern Norway with his fourteen-year-old son Luis, with whom he has lost touch after his divorce. Hoping to get closer to his son, Michael plans an expedition across the region, but their meeting proves harder than he had imagined.