“The idea was to tell the story of that weekend before the iconic conception at Shea Stadium, to mark the moment when everything changed in the world’s perception of the Beatles and also the realisation that that new music, that pop, was no longer just a youth phenomenon but embraced all ages.” (Andrej Ujica)
TWST: Things We Said Today TWST: Things We Said Today
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…
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No Other Land No Other Land
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Friday, 04. 04. 2025 / 19:30 / Small Hall
Palestinian activist Basel Adra has been documenting for years how Israeli occupiers destroy villages in his home region of Masafer Yatta. While fighting to preserve his community, he forms an unexpected alliance with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham…
The Other Way Around Volveréis
Jonás Trueba
Friday, 04. 04. 2025 / 20:20 / Main Hall
Is a “good” breakup possible? Spanish director Jonás Trueba’s film is a playful and witty nod to the classic remarriage comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, showing that separation can hold just as much love and hope as a reunion.
Our Piggy Naše prasátko
Jaromír Plachý
Saturday, 05. 04. 2025 / 10:00 / Main Hall
Small, naive, curious and playful. Just like the youngest children, Our Piggy is discovering and learning about the things around him. It is most interested in the everyday things that turn into what they are in his imagination.