MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON Dean Fleischer Camp, USA, 2021, DCP, 90' Images Courtesy of Park Circus/Universal. Marcel is a tiny talking shell, living in a human Airbnb house with his grandma Connie. When a filmmaker moves into their house, he starts making a documentary about this wee whimsical soul with one [...]
WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD WIR KÖNNTEN GENAUSO GUT TOT SEIN Natalia Sinelnikova, Germany, 2022, DCP, 93′, English subtitles A high-rise at the edge of a forest houses a carefully curated community. When a dog disappears, Anna, who lives in the building with her teenage daughter, faces an absurd battle against an irrational [...]
SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING FUMER FAIT TOUSSER Quentin Dupieux, France, 2022, DCP, 80' Serving as the festival curtain raiser on March 28 at 20:30 at Kinodvor cinema, the screening of Smoking Causes Coughing will be followed by the opening of the 10 Years of Kurja Polt photo exhibition at Kinodvor Gallery. The newest [...]
H4Z4RD Jonas Govaerts, Belgium, 2022, DCP, 88', English subtitles Screening followed by Q&A with director Jonas Govaerts. With the support of the Government of Flanders. Noah really loves his girlfriend, his daughter and his car, but after accepting a seemingly simple driving job, he finds himself in a race that could result [...]
2551.02 – THE ORGY OF THE DAMNED Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Austria, 2023, DCP, 82', no dialogue Screening followed by Q&A with director Norbert Pfaffenbichler, moderated by film critic and curator Christoph Huber. With the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum Ljubljana. After he found and lost the Kid in the concrete underground maze [...]
EXECUTIVE KOALA KOARA KACHÔ Minoru Kawasaki, Japan, 2005, Digital Betacam, 85', English subtitles Tamura is an average Japanese salaryman working in a pickle distribution company. He is well liked, hard-working, polite, wears a suit and tie, and also happens to be a six-foot tall koala bear. But when his girlfriend Yoko turns up [...]
MARKETA LAZAROVÁ František Vláčil, Czech Republic, 1967, DCP, 160', English subtitles Film courtesy of Národní filmový archiv (NFA). A grimly poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans and with that, of a brutal transformation of a naive girl into a passionate, defiant heroine. Marketa Lazarová is an epic portrayal of [...]
SÉANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON Bryan Forbes, UK, 1964, 35mm, 121' Images Courtesy of Park Circus/ITV Studios. Séance on a Wet Afternoon, based on the 1961 novel by Mark McShane, is a hair-raising classic of British genre cinema. The unsettling cinematography and the ominous setting of a Victorian house build the chilling [...]
CULLODEN Peter Watkins, UK, 1964, DCP, 72' The year is 1746, and the last pitched battle on British soil is fought on the moor at Culloden between government troops and Bonnie Prince Charlie's rebellious Jacobite army, largely comprised of Scottish clansmen. The year is 1746, and a camera crew is there on the [...]
THE HOLE LE TROU Jacques Becker, France, 1960, DCP, 131', English subtitles Five resilient and resourceful men are engineering a daring prison break, digging a hole to freedom inside their Parisian prison cell. In his final film, Jacques Becker wanted to recreate the real-life escape from La Santé prison, carried out by the [...]
