»Part Hollywood prestige drama, part pulpy revenge flick, and a perfect showcase for the Danish star.«
– Rolling Stone.
The Promised Land Bastarden
In 1755, the impoverished outcast Captain Kahlen sets out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable plains of Jutland with a seemingly impossible goal: to build a colony in the name of the King. If he succeeds, he will receive a desperately desired Royal title. However, the sole ruler of the area, the ruthless and cruel Frederik de Schinkel, arrogantly believes that this land belongs to him …
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Little Trouble Girls Kaj ti je deklica
Urška Djukić
Friday, 14. 03. 2025 / 16:30 / Main Hall
Urška Djukić’s (Granny’s Sexual Life) debut feature explores the power of girls’ voices to overturn traditional ideas and patriarchal patterns through the eyes of a shy and sensitive 16-year-old girl, Lucija. The opening film of the Perspectives Competition and winner of the FIPRESCI Award for Best First Film at this year’s Berlinale.
TWST: Things We Said Today TWST: Things We Said Today
Andrej Ujica
Friday, 14. 03. 2025 / 18:30 / Main Hall
The film takes as its starting point the arrival of the Beatles in New York for their August 1965 concert at Shea Stadium, and as its title a Beatles song that already anticipates a time when the present moment will have become a haunting past, neither retrievable nor forgettable. But the frame of reference steadily broadens. Adjacent realities of 1965 are juxtaposed—the New York World’s Fair, the Watts riots filtering through from the East Coast on television…
Dahomey Dahomey
Mati Diop
Friday, 14. 03. 2025 / 19:00 / Small Hall
In her beguiling work of speculative documentary the young French-Senegalese filmmaker charts the repatriation of stolen artefacts to Benin, interrogating colonial legacies, ancestry and the weight of history.