Film archive
Thunder Foudre
Carmen Jaquier / Switzerland / 2022 / 92 min / French
Summer 1900, in a valley in southern Switzerland. Elisabeth, 17, is about to take her vows when the sudden death of her older sister forces her to leave the convent and return to the family farm she had left five years earlier. But Elisabeth is no longer a child. Stifled by the suffocating and strict rules of the village and obsessed by the mysteries surrounding her sister’s disappearance, she will fight for her right to experiment.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Loong Boonmee raleuk chat
Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Thailand, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, France / 2010 / 113 min / Thai
Uncle Geza Goes to Zaturci Stric Geza ide v Zaturce
Jože Glažar, Štefan Kardoš / Slovenia / 2019 / 48 min / Slovene
Pickpocket Xiao Wu
Jia Zhangke / China / 1997 / 108 min / Mandarin Chinese
Jia Zhangke’s striking debut came quietly and announced the director’s feature theme: the fate of the little man left behind by a rapidly evolving contemporary society. Pickpocket announced one of the most important Chinese film-makers of his generation.
Stromboli Stromboli, terra di Dio
Roberto Rossellini / Italy, USA / 1949 / 102 min / Italian
Stromboli is the first of a series of films which the “father of neorealism” Roberto Rossellini made with Ingrid Bergman, one of the greatest Hollywood stars of the time.
Toxic Akipleša
Saule Bliuvaite / Lithuania / 2024 / 99 min / Lithuanian
Dreaming of escape from the bleakness of their hometown, two thirteen-year-olds enter a local modelling school, where the promise of a better life pushes girls to violate their bodies in increasingly extreme ways.