18:00
Los Domingos
Ainara, a brilliant and idealistic 17-year-old, stands at a crossroads: while her family expects her to choose a university path, she feels an increasing pull toward a religious vocation.
Spania, Franța - 2025
115 minute
Schedule
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Friday 18.09
Coward
As the First World War drags on, Pierre, a soldier newly arrived at the front, is eager to prove himself. Behind the lines, he meets Francis, who decides to lift the spirits of his comrades by putting together a theatre show.
Belgia, Franţa, Olanda - 2026
120 minute
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
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
Feels Like Home
Audience Award at TIFF 2026
Rita, an ordinary, but lonely woman is kidnapped. Her captors are the Árpáds; they claim she is not called Rita but Szilvi, a runaway from their family. Rita eventually understands that the only way out is in - to escape she must impersonate Szilvi.
Hungary - 2025
124 minute
Lionel
The Transilvania Trophy Award at TIFF 2026
With the start of summer in Murcia, Lionel receives some news: when he turns 26, he will lose the orphan's pension he has been living on since the death of his mother. Lionel finds himself in a moment of uncertainty about his future.
Spain, France - 2025
94 minute
Saturday 19.09
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
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
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
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
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
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
20:00
Q&A with the film’s cast and crew: Adrian Văncică, Teodor Butănescu
Golden Leopard Grand Prize – Locarno 2026
Golden Leopard Grand Prize – Locarno 2026
Pornit
You Don't Belong Here
Q&A with the film’s cast and crew: Adrian Văncică, Teodor Butănescu
Golden Leopard Grand Prize – Locarno 2026
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
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
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
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