Anniversary Screenings: Kinodvor 100! City Cinema 15!
The Tree of Life The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick / USA / 2011 / 138 min / English
From director Terrence Malick comes a thought-provoking film experience. A hymn to life, excavating answers to the most haunting and personal human questions through a kaleidoscope of the intimate and the cosmic, from the raw emotions of a family in a small Texas town to the wildest, infinite edges of space and time, from a boy’s loss of innocence to a man’s transforming encounters with awe, wonder and transcendence.
A Royal Affair En kongelig affære
Nikolaj Arcel / Denmark, Sweden, Czech Republic / 2012 / 137 min / English, Danish
A Royal Affair brings us the true story of a passionate and forbidden romance that would change Denmark for ever. Set in late 18th-century Denmark, this historical drama centers on the intriguing love triangle between the mad King Christian VII, the King’s Enlightened idealist doctor and the young Queen Caroline Mathilda.
12 Angry Men 12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet / USA / 1957 / 96 min / English
The debut of director Sidney Lumet is a gripping story of prejudice, racism and justice that “explodes like twelve sticks of dynamite.” Winner of the Golden Bear award at the Berlinale and three Oscar nominations.
Charade Charade
Stanley Donen / USA / 1963 / 113 min / English
Here are the immensely captivating Audrey Hepburn (“God kissed her on the cheek!”) and Cary Grant, charming and witty as ever, to take us on a journey through a spy thriller set in the Paris of the 1960s.
I Am Not Your Negro I Am Not Your Negro
Raoul Peck / USA, France / 2016 / 95 min / English
Documentary film based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript recounting personal recollections of the civil rights movement.
If Beale Street Could Talk If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins / USA / 2018 / 119 min / English
Based on the novel by James Baldwin and directed by Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), this is the story of Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover’s innocence while carrying their first child to term.
Days of Love Giorni d'amore
Giuseppe De Santis / Italy, France / 1954 / 103 min / Italian
The first colour film by one of the leading representatives of Italian neorealism, Giuseppe De Santis (Bitter Rice), is a fairy-tale romance combining social criticism, stylised realism and commedia dell’arte.