Program Cinema Elvire Popesco

Directed by: Ivan Ramljak Documentary – Croatia – 2025 – 100 min Section: Past Continuous In 1991, on the outskirts of Tenja, Josip Reihl Kir – chief of the Osijek Police Department, a negotiator and opponent of war – was assassinated. This is a story about the last months of his life at the dawn of the bloodthirsty Croatian-Serbian war, told through witness statements and archive materials....See more details

INTERSECTING MEMORY Directed by: Shayma' Awawdeh Documentary – France, Palestine – 2025 – 21 min Section: Past Continuous During the Second Intifada in occupied Palestine, fear, siege, and death define the reality of the city of Hebron. Moments from the past are revived through childhood memory, intersecting with the collective memory....See more details

Directed by: Johan Grimonprez Documentary – Belgium, France, Netherlands – 2024 – 150 min Section: Focus Johan Grimonprez Jazz and decolonization collide in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba’s murder....See more details

120 min Section: Focus Johan Grimonprez Hosted by Johan Grimonprez, “Every Day Words Disappear” is an indispensable masterclass for exploring the theories and practices that lie at the heart of his films. Defined by a multi-layered and complex de/re/construction of language and the audio-visual medium, these works become pedagogical tools for understanding the intricate ways in which narrative and ideology become inter-defined and codified as Historical memory....See more details

Directed by: Johan Grimonprez Documentary – USA, Belgium, Denmark, United Kingdom – 2016 – 94 min Section: Focus Johan Grimonprez A journalistic tour-de-force, Johan Grimonprez’s explosive “Shadow World”, based on Andrew Feinstein’s book of the same title, exposes the global arms trade as a system defined by corruption....See more details

Directed by: Olga Lucovnicova Documentary – Belgium, Romania, Netherlands, Republic of Moldova – 2025 – 94 min Section: Focus Moldova Driven by the need to confront her family’s long-buried secrets, Olga Lucovnicova and her father take an old train to his hometown, Asha, deep in the Ural Mountains....See more details

Directed by: Dawood Hilmandi Documentary – Netherlands – 2025 – 97 min Section: On the Verge After fleeing his home as a boy for freedom in the West, Afghan-Dutch filmmaker Dawood Hilmandi returns years later to confront his father, an imam with a violent past. In a journey through Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq, ”Paikar” explores the invisible inheritance of war and silence that shapes generations, and invites us to rediscover the tenderness that endures within even the most hardened souls....See more details

Directed by: Anastasiya Miroshnichenko Documentary – France, Netherlands, Belgium – 2025 – 96 min Section: On the Verge This is a story about Katya, a young woman who works as a welder. Abandoned as a little girl, she embarks on a personal journey to reunite with her lost family – to weld it back together, just like she welds metal at work....See more details

Directed by: Lee Anne Schmitt Documentary – USA – 2025 – 75 min Section: Past Continuous “Evidence” is both an analysis of corporate spending and the impact of dark money on US politics and ideology, and a personal meditation on ideas of family and care. In her most personal film to date, Lee Anne Schmitt blends funded archival materials, industrial landscapes, and personal domestic imagery, reflecting on how her own family—by birth and by choice—was shaped within a mythology of capitalism....See more details

Chiara este actriță și este fiica lui Marcello Mastroianni și a lui Catherine Deneuve. Într-o vară, decide să trăiască la fel ca tatăl ei. Se îmbracă, vorbește și respiră ca el cu atâta convingere încât ceilalți încep să-i spună "Marcello"....See more details