Schedule

Saturday 19.09

    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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    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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    16:00
    Artist Stories powered by Art Encounters

    Leonora Carrington and The Surrealist Game

    Artist Stories powered by Art Encounters

    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
    +12
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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
    Artist Stories powered by Art Encounters

    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
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    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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Sunday 20.09

    15:00

    Things We Don't Say

    Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials.

    Italia - 2026
    114 minute
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    15:00
    Q&A with the crew of the film: Cristian Bota, Dana Rogoz
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    Back and Forth

    Q&A with the crew of the film: Cristian Bota, Dana Rogoz

    Cornel, a young actor on the verge of divorce, travels with his authoritarian father to Austria. The journey becomes a confrontation with the past, with childhood wounds and the things we struggle to speak about honestly.

    România - 2026
    93 minute
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    15:30
    followed by a debate with Norbert Fodor & BAIFF
    powered by Bucharest AI Film Festival
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    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
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    17:30
    Q&A with the crew of the film: Medeea Marinescu, Matei Truța
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    Wild Delta

    Q&A with the crew of the film: Medeea Marinescu, Matei Truța

    Where the Carpathians meet the Black Sea, Europe’s largest wetland is born, a place of legendary biodiversity and countless stories. This is the unique story of a remarkable land, told through the voice of the character that makes everything possible: the water.

    România - 2026
    125 minute
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    17:30
    FOCUS Jacques Tati

    Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

    FOCUS Jacques Tati

    It's the summer holiday season, and Monsieur Hulot heads to a seaside resort like everyone else. Well-meaning but hopelessly clumsy, Hulot unwittingly causes one catastrophe after another among the other hotel guests.

    Franța - 1953
    114 minute
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    20:00

    The Dinner

    April 15th, 1939. Just two weeks after the war’s end, Franco invites his top generals for a night of triumph. But in the hotel’s kitchen, a group of defeated Republican chefs are secretly preparing the meal, while also cooking up their last chance to escape the country.

    Spain, France - 2025
    106 minute
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    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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    22:00

    Le chant des forêts

    After The Velvet Queen, celebrated wildlife photographer Vincent Munier invites us into the heart of the Vosges forests, where his father Michel, a lifelong naturalist, once taught him everything about the wild. Now it is Vincent's turn to pass on this knowledge to his own son, Simon.

    Franța - 2025
    95 minute
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