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Day 1

09 June

Event type: Movie
Hour	Event	Event type	Category		Tiket
14:45	Sauve qui peut (la vie)	Movie	Close-up Jean-Luc Godard	Paul Godard, a filmmaker, is afraid of life without Denise, his estranged girlfriend. When she asks for his help, he reluctantly agrees, but this gesture doesn't help their relationship. Later,...	Cumpara bilet
17:15	Fathers and Mothers	Movie	Focus nordic	Married couple Piv and Ulrik must fight for a place in the parent group in their daughter’s new class. They experience parenthood to an excessive degree, and on top of all that, they are now going on...	Cumpara bilet
19:45	Running on Empty	Movie	Close-up Sidney Lumet	Arthur and his wife, Annie, are fugitives, perpetually on the run from federal authorities due to their antiwar activity during the 1960s. The couple moves around the country with their two sons,...	Cumpara bilet
22:15	Sorcery	Movie	Full Moon	On the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, an Indigenous girl named Rosa lives and works with her father on a farm. When the foreman brutally turns on Rosa’s father, she sets out for...	Cumpara bilet

Day 2

10 June

Event type: Movie
Hour	Event	Event type	Category		Tiket
12:15	Delegation	Movie	Educatiff	Three Israeli high school friends take part in a class trip visiting Holocaust sites in Poland – the last time together before going to the army. During the trip, they deal with issues of love,...	Cumpara bilet
14:45	Troll Farm	Movie	Coming Up Next	After being wrongly fired from an international beauty brand, Ana is determined to clear out her name and prove to the world that she was a scapegoat. With her reputation ruined and family broken,...	Cumpara bilet
17:15	12 Angry Men	Movie	Close-up Sidney Lumet	A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murder, accused of knifing his father to death. The twelve jurors retire to the jury room, having been admonished that the defendant is innocent until proven...	Cumpara bilet
19:45	Smoking Causes Coughing	Movie	No Limit	After a devastating battle against a diabolical giant turtle, a team of vigilantes, the Tobacco Force, is sent on a mandatory week-long retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion. Their...	Cumpara bilet
21:45	Rule 34	Movie	No Limit	23-year-old Simone studies criminal law and advocates for women's rights. At night she performs in front of a live sex cam. One night she watches a film which awakens dark impulses for a more...	Cumpara bilet

Day 3

11 June

Event type: Movie
Hour	Event	Event type	Category		Tiket
10:45	Hypermoon	Movie	Focus nordic	Mia, the director, receives life-altering news and takes a journey through her own history. We follow a child astronaut’s lonely travels through space, and ageing gangster Vincent, who, while moving...	Cumpara bilet
12:30	Soigne ta droite	Movie	Close-up Jean-Luc Godard	A group of musicians search for the ideal harmony. Then, a man searches for an ideal society and wonders if he is on the wrong planet. One of Godard's most divisive films, Keep Your Right Up was...	Cumpara bilet
14:45	Blackport	Movie	Coming Up Next	In the mid-1980s, fishing quotas are introduced in Iceland, a government decision that upset the entire industry. Harpa is a town council secretary who takes advantage of a tragic accident to save...	Cumpara bilet
17:15	Let the River Flow	Movie	Focus nordic	In the late 1970s, the Norwegian government decides to displace the Alta River. The Sámi people, the indigenous people of the northern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, fight the decision. Ester, a...	Cumpara bilet
19:45	Bread and Salt	Movie	Smart 7	Tymek studies piano at the Warsaw Academy of Music. During the hot summer, he returns to his family in a provincial town where time has seemingly stood still. Tymek's brother Jacek is a pianist...	Cumpara bilet
22:15	Black Stone	Movie	Smart 7	While filming absent civil servants, a documentary crew stumbles upon Haroula, a desperate, overprotective Greek mother in search of her son. But when he is accused of fraud, Haroula sets out with...	Cumpara bilet

Day 4

12 June

Event type: Movie
Hour	Event	Event type	Category		Tiket
10:15	Belle and Sébastien: The New Generation	Movie	Educatiff	10-year-old Sebastien reluctantly spends his vacation in the mountains with his grandmother and aunt. Helping with the sheep is hardly an exciting prospect for a city boy like him - but that is...	Cumpara bilet
12:30	Stella	Movie	Film Food	"Pizza means Soul," Ciro Oliva strongly proclaims in Stella, a mouthwatering film following a young, highly spirited and proud Neapolitan pizza chef who passionately aims to be the first...	Cumpara bilet
14:45	The Architect	Movie	Coming Up Next	When a project to build a thousand flats in Oslo is put out to tender, architect intern Julie has an idea: why not convert empty underground car parks into residential buildings? Winner of the...	Cumpara bilet
16:30	Figaros Wolves	Movie		Nici o descriere	Cumpara bilet
17:15	A Human Position	Movie	Focus nordic	Asta is a journalist in Ålesund who seems plunged in a melancholic state. Her supportive girlfriend refurbishes design chairs and plays the keyboard, while their kitten wanders around the house. One...	Cumpara bilet
19:45	Mannvirki	Movie	Smart 7	An abandoned building on Iceland's northern coast has fallen subject to the natural forces of erosion and entropy. As the ruins and the landscape slowly yield to the wind and sea, a loose...	Cumpara bilet
22:00	Tobacco Barns	Movie	Smart 7	Seven-year-old Vera lives in the big city but adores spending the holidays in her grandparent’s town and particularly in their deserted tobacco barn. Nieves, a teenager native from there whose father...	Cumpara bilet

Day 5

13 June

Event type: Movie
Hour	Event	Event type	Category		Tiket
10:15	Dancing Queen	Movie	Educatiff	Mina is a nerdy teenager at the start of a new school year. She is keen to fit in, and even keener to impress E.D. Win, a young hip-hop dancer whose number of Instagram followers far exceeds his...	Cumpara bilet
12:30	She Chef	Movie	Film Food	She Chef is a portrait of a newly crowned world champion chef. After completing her training at Austria's top restaurant, 25-year-old Agnes embarks on an exciting journey to learn from the best...	Cumpara bilet
14:45	Good People	Movie	Coming Up Next	Tom is a policeman, Linda is a beautician, and they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Caught between a rock and a hard place, they embark on a get-rich-quick scam in an attempt to give themselves a...	Cumpara bilet
17:00	Let The Dance Begin	Movie	Supernova	30 years ago, Carlos and Margarita were the most famous tango couple in the world. Carlos now lives in Madrid, enjoying the second opportunity that life has given him, and Margarita lives in Buenos...	Cumpara bilet
19:15	India	Movie	Smart 7	Tiago, a tour guide with a broken heart leads Karen, a grieving and aging Brazilian woman, around a Lisbon of strange suicidal heroes. Tiago lives with his father, Raul, an old sailor haunted by...	Cumpara bilet
22:00	Remember to Blink	Movie	Smart 7	Jacqueline – a woman who is obsessed with control – adopts two children from a foreign country with her husband. To help with translation, the kids are accompanied by Gabriele, a 20-year-old who is...	Cumpara bilet

Day 6

14 June

Event type: Movie
Hour	Event	Event type	Category		Tiket
10:15	Juniors	Movie	Educatiff	Jordan and Patrick are 14. They live in a small village in the South of France and they are obsessed with Call Of Duty, a famous war video game. One day a tragedy occurs: their console gives up the...	Cumpara bilet
12:30	Three Thousand Number Pieces	Movie	Hungarian Day	A white Hungarian director rehearses a play with five young marginalized Roma actors. His play tells their real life stories of abuse, drug addiction and crime. However, instead of representing the...	Cumpara bilet
14:45	The Actor	Movie	Coming Up Next	Ali and his friend Morteza, two naturally gifted but unemployed thespians, perform at wealthy people’s functions to surprise their guests. But surprises can sometimes turn awry, and soon enough Ali...	Cumpara bilet
17:15	Not A Thing	Movie	Hungarian Day	Éva and Adél are identical twins in their thirties. Adél found her stability in a workaholic, reserved lifestyle, while Éva seems to have it all: a beautiful baby and a confident and successful...	Cumpara bilet
19:30	Mammalia	Movie	Smart 7	Thirty-nine-year-old Camil embarks on a dreamlike trip where the banal and the surreal merge. Struggling to come to terms with losing control – of his work, his social status, his relationship – he...	Cumpara bilet
21:45	Power + 1939	Movie	Hungarian Day	A young scout is killed by a stray bullet during a hunting expedition involving prominent political figures. A lawyer will get involved in the investigation, together with an idealist minister, the...	Cumpara bilet

Day 7

15 June

Event type: Movie
Hour	Event	Event type	Category		Tiket
10:15	Totem	Movie	Educatiff	Seven-year-old Sol spends the day at her grandfather's home, helping with the preparations for a surprise party for her father. Throughout the day, chaos slowly takes over, fracturing the family...	Cumpara bilet
12:30	Not A Thing	Movie	Hungarian Day	Éva and Adél are identical twins in their thirties. Adél found her stability in a workaholic, reserved lifestyle, while Éva seems to have it all: a beautiful baby and a confident and successful...	Cumpara bilet
14:45	Souls	Movie	Coming Up Next	After a serious car accident that could have claimed his entire family, 14-year-old Jacob suddenly announces he remembers a past life as a pilot of a missing passenger plane. Is there any chance he...	Cumpara bilet
17:15	Blockade	Movie	Hungarian Day	József Antall is the first democratic Hungarian Prime Minister following the 1989 fall of communism and he faces the most difficult test of his life: taxi drivers protest against the drastic rise in...	Cumpara bilet
19:45	Beautiful Helen	Movie	Supernova	Helen is 25 years old. After finishing university in New York, she comes back to Tbilisi, her hometown. Everything seems foreign here, but Helen tries to find her place. Her encounter with film...	Cumpara bilet
22:15	Whose Dog Am I?	Movie	Hungarian Day	It seems that the canine world contains similar problematic and questionable situations as the human world. Starting from Talpos, a dog, we follow the story and the decline of the Hungarian Kuvasz...	Cumpara bilet

Day 8

16 June

Event type: Movie
Hour	Event	Event type	Category		Tiket
10:15	The Hullabaloos!	Movie	Educatiff	When the Hullabaloos head to Helsinki to celebrate the birthday of their twin boys Mökö and Luru, a hilarious mix-up leads to their beloved dog Pulla being swapped with the President’s pooch. As the...	Cumpara bilet
12:15	Day of the Tiger	Movie	Romanian Days	Vera is a small-town veterinarian from Transylvania. On a particular day, while a tiger seized from a local gangster is brought to the zoo where she works, the woman uncovers a secret which triggers...	Cumpara bilet
14:45	Nora	Movie	Larger than Life	Poet, novelist and translator, 92-year-old Nora Iuga is a unique character on the Romanian contemporary literature scene, due to the author’s particular mix of playfulness, charisma and self-irony....	Cumpara bilet
17:15	The Nightman	Movie	Full Moon	Damian and his wife move into an isolated house in Ireland. As things get tense with the locals, mysterious murders occur. When Damian proves to suffer from sleepwalking crisis, his pregnant wife...	Cumpara bilet
19:00	Veronica	Movie		Nici o descriere	Cumpara bilet
19:45	Sister, What Grows Where Land is Sick?	Movie	Focus nordic	In a small town in northern Norway, Eira tries to navigate in the shadows of her brilliant and rebellious older sister Vera. Lately something is happening to Vera. In quest of finding out what, Eira...	Cumpara bilet
22:00	The Earth is a Sinful Song	Movie	Focus nordic	The 1940s, the Finnish Lapland. Martta, a 19-year-old girl, has an ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is...	Cumpara bilet

Day 9

17 June

Event type: Movie
Hour	Event	Event type	Category		Tiket
12:15	Romanian Shorts 3	Movie	Romanian Days	Între marginile zilei (Between the Edges of the Day, r. Andreea Lăcătuș, 19') Berliner Kindl (Berliner Kindl, r. Lucia Chicos, 21') Două vorbe, trei miniciuni (Two Words, Three Lies, r....	Cumpara bilet
15:00	Romanian Shorts 2	Movie	Romanian Days	Iorgu! (Iorgu!, r. Matei Preda, 19') Acolo unde bărcile nu ajung (Where No Ships Go, r. Vlad Buzaianu, 18') Sasha (Sasha, r. Serghei Chiviriga, 13') Alibaba (Alibaba, r. Vlad Popa, 18...	Cumpara bilet
17:45	Romanian Shorts 1	Movie	Romanian Days	Exercițiu de concediu (Our Summer Break, r. Lara Ionescu, 22') Toate neamurile (Whole Family, r. Alexandra Diaconu, 22') Suruaika (Suruaika, r. Vlad Ilicevici, Radu C. Pop, 9') Roz (...	Cumpara bilet
20:15	The Happiest Man In The World	Movie	Supernova	Asja, a 40-year-old single woman, lives in Sarajevo. In order to meet new people, she ends up spending her Saturday in a speed dating event. She’s matched with Zoran, a 43-year-old banker. However,...	Cumpara bilet
22:15	Lake of the Dead	Movie	Focus nordic	Several old friends arrive at a cabin in the woods to visit the owner, but the man is missing and his dog was apparently killed. As the strangeness of the circumstances settles in, one recalls the...	Cumpara bilet

Day 10

18 June

Event type: Movie
Hour	Event	Event type	Category		Tiket
10:15	Three Thousand Number Pieces	Movie	Hungarian Day	A white Hungarian director rehearses a play with five young marginalized Roma actors. His play tells their real life stories of abuse, drug addiction and crime. However, instead of representing the...	Cumpara bilet
12:15	Sauve qui peut (la vie)	Movie	Close-up Jean-Luc Godard	Paul Godard, a filmmaker, is afraid of life without Denise, his estranged girlfriend. When she asks for his help, he reluctantly agrees, but this gesture doesn't help their relationship. Later,...	Cumpara bilet
14:45	Murder Story	Movie	Hungarian Day	Middle aged bourgeoisie couple lives a loveless life along with their beautiful eighteen year old daughter. The man has a passionate desire for the girl who in fact is not his real daughter but the...	Cumpara bilet
17:15	White Plastic Sky	Movie	Larger than Life	In the near future, the remaining humans are living under a plastic dome. At the age of 50, they are implanted with a special seed that turns them into a tree which will provide oxygen and food for...	Cumpara bilet
19:45	Weekend	Movie	Close-up Jean-Luc Godard	Roland Durand and his wife Corinne embark on a weekend getaway to the French countryside. Each is contemplating adultery as they head for the coast, but end up ensnared in a traffic jam along the way...	Cumpara bilet
22:00	La Huella, The Story Of A Beach Bar Resto	Movie	Film Food	Twenty years ago, three friends accepted a challenge: to build on the beach of a small Uruguayan village a restaurant similar to those that existed in the 1950s - simple and honest. A place on the...	Cumpara bilet