Requiem for Mrs. J

Bojan Vuletić | Rekvijem za gospodju J.

Serbia/Bulgaria/Republic of Macedonia/Russia/France | 2017 | DCP | 94min | MR: 14 years old

Jelena has had enough of life. Her husband died a year ago, and she feels tired and lonely – in spite of her two daughters and her mother-in-law who all share her flat. She has decided that, at the end of the week, on the anniversary of her husband’s death, she will commit suicide. She has a pistol ready for the job. But beforehand there are a number of things to sort out: she needs to return an armchair she borrowed from a neighbour. She also needs to get a mason to put her portrait photograph on her gravestone and renew her health insurance card. Gradually, this quiet, humble woman begins to realise that nothing’s simple in a country that’s constantly swinging back and forth between torment and transition.

Rudzienko

Sharon Lockhart | Rudzienko

USA/Poland | 2016 | DCP | 53min | MR: 14 years old

Sharon Lockhart’s film Rudzienko was shot over three years in collaboration with the residents of the Youth Center for Sociotherapy in Rudzienko, Poland. Lockhart conceived of a series of workshops to empower the young women to find their voice. The group worked together to develop dialog and movements out of their collective activities. The resulting film depicts a mix of conversations from the philosophical to everyday teenage concerns. The Polish language film proposes an innovative approach to the relationship of image to language by offsetting the conversations with their textual translations into English, creating a space of quiet reflection.

The Virgin's Bed

Philippe Garrel | Le Lit De La Vierge

France | 1969 | DCP | 105min | MR: 14 years old

The Virgin Mary gives birth to an adult Jesus unhappy with being on Earth right from the moment he sets foot on it who begs his Father in heaven to hear his pleas. Riding on donkey-back, Jesus reluctantly sets out on his way with a megaphone and the intention of trying to spread his message in a permanently hostile world that refuses to hear him.

The Dreamed Path

Angela Schanelec | Der Traumhafte Weg

Germany | 2016 | DCP | 86min | MR: 14 years old

Greece, 1984. Kenneth, an Englishman, and Theres, a German girl, sing in the street to finance their holidays. They are in love, but when Kenneth learns that his mother had an accident, he hastily returns home. 30 years later in Berlin. Ariane, a TV actress, leaves her husband, a successful anthropologist. After moveing into an apartment near the main station, the husband start seing a homeless man outside his window.

Actua 1

Philippe Garrel | Actua 1

France | 1968 | DCP | 6min | MR: 14 years old

A film considered almost lost even by Garrel, who recently found his negatives. Shot during the events of the May 68, it was made collectively; the film is a merge of Garrel’s and his partners’ points of view, all of them students and filmmakers that participated in the revolt. Collage of scenes from the Paris barricades that were recorded surreptitiously by some of the protesters. Viewed years later, the footage thrusts the audience right into the heart of the revolutionary fever.