In four decades, the merciless Neapolitan reality has tamed a once fiery girl into a sensitive woman torn between the care for her children and parents, her unresolved feelings for her husband and the demons of her family’s past and the unfulfilling present. Anna is not unhappy, but why, then, when she opens the kitchen window in the mornings the sky is never blue, but a heavy grey? The Coppa Volpi Award for best actress for Valeria Golino at the 2015 Venice Film Festival.
What's On
Yunan Yunan
Ameer Fakher Eldin
Thursday, 18. 09. 2025 / 19:30 / Main Hall
The Hamburg-based director of Palestinian-Syrian descent places the second instalment of his Homeland trilogy on a small, flood-prone island in the Wadden Sea. This melancholic, mood-driven film about exile and the scars it leaves behind features a charismatic performance by the legendary Hanna Schygulla.
Wisdom of Happiness Wisdom of Happiness
Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis
Thursday, 18. 09. 2025 / 20:30 / Small Hall
With disarming wit, the Dalai Lama reflects on balancing millennia-old Tibetan Buddhist traditions with the contemporary values of our globalised society that now struggles to overcome violence and war while standing on the brink of environmental collapse.
Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović
Friday, 19. 09. 2025 / 18:00 / Main Hall
On 12 September 1919, a troop of some three hundred soldiers under the leadership of the flamboyant war-loving Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio swooped into the Northern-Adriatic port town of Fiume, now Rijeka, wanting to annex the city to Italy. Over the course of the next 16 months, during what is regarded as one of the most bizarre militant sieges of all time his official photography team captured over 10,000 images. A century later, Igor Bezinović orchestrates a direct-action history lesson focused on the siege and its modern-day implications.