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Thursday 17.09

    18:00
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    Young Picasso

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    Pablo Picasso is one of the greatest and most prolific artists of all time. But where did it all begin? The film explores Picasso’s formative years, following his journey through Malaga, Barcelona and Paris and the influences that would shape the artist we know today.

    Marea Britanie - 2019
    91 minute
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    19:00
    Official Opening | Q&A with the crew of the film: Tudor Giurgiu, Andreea Vasile, Emilia Popescu, Conrad Mericoffer, Daniel Achim, Radu Grigore, Alexandru Dorobantu
    Meet and Greet with Familia Darabont
    +15
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    3 Days In September

    Official Opening | Q&A with the crew of the film: Tudor Giurgiu, Andreea Vasile, Emilia Popescu, Conrad Mericoffer, Daniel Achim, Radu Grigore, Alexandru Dorobantu
    Meet and Greet with Familia Darabont

    Bianca’s world shatters when her fiancé’s mistress crashes their wedding. Reeling from shock, she flees on a tourist train, launching a real-time odyssey of chaotic escape and surreal encounters through the off-season seaside resort.

    România - 2026
    76 minute
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    20:00
    FOCUS Jacques Tati

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    FOCUS Jacques Tati

    In an ultra-modern Paris of glass and steel, where familiar landmarks appear only as fleeting reflections, Monsieur Hulot wanders through a whirring office complex, an exhibition of new inventions and an upscale party, repeatedly crossing paths with a group of American tourists.

    Franţa, Italia - 1967
    155 minute
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Saturday 19.09

    15:00
    FOCUS Jacques Tati

    Mon Oncle

    FOCUS Jacques Tati

    Monsieur Hulot adores his shabby old-town apartment and cannot fathom why his sister has moved to an ultra-modern suburb, into a gadget-filled showcase house. His only real joy is his young nephew, whom the family tries to mold in the image of this new mechanized world. 

    Franţa, Italia - 1958
    110 minute
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    15:00
    Best Soundtrack Award – Cannes 2026

    Amarga Navidad

    Best Soundtrack Award – Cannes 2026

    Elsa is an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday. She works non-stop and, without realising, doesn’t give herself time to mourn her mother’s absence.

    Spain - 2026
    111 minute
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    16:00
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    Leonora Carrington and The Surrealist Game

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    A documentary tracing the odyssey of Leonora Carrington's passionate life, the last surviving member of the surrealist movement. The film follows a woman's struggle to be free and to explore her own unconscious, a struggle that led to her admission to a Spanish psychiatric hospital in the 1940s.

    Spania - 2023
    76 minute
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    17:30
    100th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's birth

    Some Like It Hot

    100th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's birth

    Two down-on-their-luck jazz musicians find themselves out of a job and on the run after the police raid the speakeasy where they perform and they inadvertently witness a gang war. With no money and nowhere to hide, they join an all-female band headed to Florida.

    United States - 1959
    122 minute
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    17:30
    Online Q&A with Rachel Tâpârjan
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    Something Familiar

    Online Q&A with Rachel Tâpârjan

    While helping a woman search for her birth mother, Rachel is drawn deeper into her own family history. When Rachel launches an international search for her missing sisters, she uncovers a painful legacy of abuse and exploitation.

    România, United Kingdom - 2026
    89 minute
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    18:00
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    Leonora in the Morning Light

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    In the early 1930s, painter Leonora Carrington, a rebel against social expectations, joins the surrealist movement and its iconic figures like André Breton and Salvador Dalí in Paris. A whirlwind love affair with artist Max Ernst confronts her with her inner demons.

    Germany, România, Mexico, United Kingdom - 2025
    103 minute
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    20:00
    +15

    Calle Malaga

    Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, in northern Morocco, where she enjoys the city and her daily life. Everything changes when her daughter, Clara, arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has lived her entire life.

    Morocco, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium - 2025
    116 minute
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    20:00

    The Last Viking

    Finally free from prison after a 20 year sentence, Anker wants to get back the money he has stolen. However, his brother and accomplice Manfred suffers from dissociative identity disorder: he now believes he is John Lennon, and John can’t remember the place in which Manfred buried the money.

    Denmark, Sweden - 2025
    116 minute
    Intrarea liberă
    20:00
    Q&A with the film’s cast and crew: Adrian Văncică, Teodor Butănescu
    Golden Leopard Grand Prize – Locarno 2026
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    You Don't Belong Here

    Q&A with the film’s cast and crew: Adrian Văncică, Teodor Butănescu
    Golden Leopard Grand Prize – Locarno 2026

    Marius is a surgeon and the manager of the municipal hospital in his small hometown, raising his teenage son Ioan on his own.

    România - 2026
    157 minute
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    21:00

    Gorky Resort

    1939. The world is descending into chaos. Thousands of distinguished Poles are taken captive by the Soviets and subjected to indoctrination as part of a larger political scheme.

    Poland, Ireland, Ukraine, Cyprus - 2026
    113 minute
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