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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

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  • Signori Giurati

    Beautiful, coloured-in, silent film with grand melodramatic gestures. A woman out for money misleads a doctor and a marquis so she can set up her…
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  • Boatman

    Disconcerting portrait of ambitious newcomer in the world of sweaty sex shows, who seems to want to do anything to get success. A variation on…
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  • Something Like Happiness

    Three friends, now grown up, wrestle with loneliness, desires and failures in an internationally award-winning and moving drama. Something like Happin
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  • Sud Express

    A heartwarming mosaic about the quest for love in today’s Europe, where immigration and loss of traditional social structures for many people lead to
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  • Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961

    Meticulous, imposing and moving feature reconstruction of an event that is not well-known enough: on the October evening in question, a peaceful demon
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  • Les amants réguliers

    With the son of the maker playing the leading role, the mythical month of May 1968 is invoked as if it happened yesterday. Everything is…
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  • Reflections

    Debut film by Taiwanese talent, Yao Hung-i, the former assistant director to Hou Hsiao-hsien. That the influence of the great teacher is recognisable
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  • Dead Man’s Bluff

    Gangster film shows a caricature of the situation in Russia during the 1990s, when the Mafia blossomed and created its own culture (bling avant la…
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  • Wrong Side Up

    Bittersweet and of course eccentric comedy by the maker of Knoflíkari (VPRO Tiger Award winner in 1999), about ordinary people, looking for love, some
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  • Three Times

    Three love stories in three different eras (1966, 1911 and 2005) in Hou’s characteristic, philosophical and aesthetic style. The different couples are
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