Schedule

Friday 18.09

    20:30
    the best director award at Cannes 2026
    +15

    Fatherland

    the best director award at Cannes 2026

    In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a challenging and emotional road trip across a Germany in ruins – from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar.

    Polonia-Germania-Italia-Franţa - 2026
    82min
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    20:30
    Online Q&A with Vladlena Sandu
    Pornit

    Memory

    Online Q&A with Vladlena Sandu

    After her parents’ divorce, six-year-old Vladlena moves from Crimea to Grozny, not yet aware of the changes that lie ahead. When war breaks out in Chechnya, it deeply affects her city and family.

    France, Netherlands - 2025
    98 minute
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Sunday 20.09

    15:30
    followed by a debate with Norbert Fodor & BAIFF
    powered by Bucharest AI Film Festival
    Pornit

    A Selection of Films Made with Artificial Intelligence

    followed by a debate with Norbert Fodor & BAIFF
    powered by Bucharest AI Film Festival

    Eight short films, eight ways of looking at what happens when the image stops merely reflecting and becomes an instrument of creation: dictators watching their own collapse, an android in search of a memory, a photograph turned into motion, a childhood filtered into disappearance.

    85 minute
    Intrarea liberă
    20:30
    Grand Prix - Cannes 2026

    Minotaur

    Grand Prix - Cannes 2026

    Russia, 2022. Gleb is a respected manager in a provincial corporation closely connected to the highest levels of Russian power.

    France, Latvia, Germany - 2026
    140 minute
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