Film archive
Shooting the Mafia Shooting the Mafia
Kim Longinotto / Ireland, USA / 2019 / 94 min
Sicilian Letizia Battaglia began her long-time fight with the mob when she first dared to point her camera at a victim cruelly murdered. By documenting the barbaric rule of the cosa nostra, she became a relentless witness of their crimes. Her life was marked by defiance and passion.
Shoplifters Manbiki kazoku
Hirokazu Koreeda / Japan / 2018 / 121 min / Japanese
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty and a penchant for petty theft. When their young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love and not blood that defines a family. Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes.
Short Skin Short Skin - I dolori del giovane Edo
Duccio Chiarini / Italy / 2014 / 86 min / Slovene subtitles, Italian / 14+
Shorts for Adults I: The Great Flood Kratki za odrasle I: Vesoljni potop
različni avtorji / various / 73 min
Ops, have you noticed there’s water in our ship and now we’re sinking? And there’s no guide on what to do next! Existential meltdown, funeral, eerie trip to a luxurious place, or party in a gay club? Maybe we should just sing a swan song to the world as we know it. The melody may be bittersweet and absurd, yet still chasing the new horizon. Sometimes we need to hit rock bottom before we reemerge.
Shorts for Adults II: A New World Rising Kratki za odrasle II: Novi svet
različni avtorji / various / 75 min
Uf, we survived the flood, and now everything is ruined. But something unexplored is forming from the watery chaos. Think of this land as a space for all kinds of possible futures. What do you see? What is your fantasy? A new planet, a hidden forest, or maybe Barbieland? Let’s emerge into these worlds together and be transformed by their infinite possibilities. Wake up—it’s time to rise and shine!
Shorts for Adults: French Edition Kratki za odrasle: po francosko
različni avtorji / France / 77 min
Subversive, shocking, embarrassing and controversial, soak up the Midnight Special experience with the WTF Programme that brings together seventeen of the craziest short films around! Why don’t you step outside your comfort zone, be flabbergasted, shudder, roar with laughter or weep watching these two programmes selected with love to fire up the Animateka 2022? Adults Only (18+)
Shorts for Adults: WTF2022 Kratki za odrasle: WTF 2022
različni avtorji / various / 75 min
Subversive, shocking, embarrassing and controversial, soak up the Midnight Special experience with the WTF Programme that brings together seventeen of the craziest short films around! Why don’t you step outside your comfort zone, be flabbergasted, shudder, roar with laughter or weep watching these two programmes selected with love to fire up the Animateka 2022? Adults Only (18+)
Should I stay or should I go? Should I stay or should I go?
Beatrix Brunschko, Klaus Salminen, Ludger Lemper, Maja Dekleva Lapajne, Philippe Muyard / various, Slovenia, Sweden, Germany, Austria, France / 2015 / 95 min / English, French, German, Slovene, Swedish
Sibyl Sibyl
Justine Triet / France, Belgium / 2019 / 100 min / Italian, English, French
Sibyl, a jaded psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. But her newest patient Margot, a troubled up-and-coming actress, proves to be a source of inspiration that is far too tempting. Fascinated almost to the point of obsession, Sibyl becomes more and more involved in Margot’s tumultuous life, reviving volatile memories that bring her face to face with her past.
Sicilian Ghost Story Sicilian Ghost Story
Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza / Italy, Switzerland, France / 2017 / 132 min / Slovene subtitles, Italian / 15+
Based on true events, writer-director duo Fabio Grassadonia and Antonia Piazza tell a story about the indestructible power of love, whose fantastical world beats against the dark reality of mafia kidnappings in this breathtaking film.
Sieranevada Sieranevada
Cristi Puiu / Romania / 2016 / 173 min / Romanian
The third instalment in Puiu’s series of insights into the lives of people in suburban Bucharest explores the tragicomic workings of a family gathered to commemorate the loss of their father.
Silence 6-9 Isyhia 6-9
Christos Passalis / Greece / 2022 / 81 min / Greek
Aris is in town for a job maintaining the local antennae, which pick up fragmentary messages from people who have vanished, and Anna is hired to double as a melodica-playing man’s disappeared wife. A mysterious, surreal love story set in a retro-futurist parallel reality, saturated with the buzz of sodium streetlights, the hum of antennae, and the chirrup of insects.