Film Theatre 2023/24

Leila’s Brothers (Baradaran-e Leila, Iran, 2022, 159 min.)

 
At the age of 40, Leila has spent her entire life caring for her parents and four brothers. A family that is constantly arguing and under pressure from various debts in the face of sanctions against Iran. While her brothers are struggling to make ends meet, Leila makes a plan.
 

Director: Saeed Roustaee
Screenplay: Saeed Roustaee, Azad Jafarian
Photo: Hooman Behmanesh
Edited by: Bahram Dehghani, Delaram Shemirani (dokumentarni del)
Music by: Ramin Kousha
Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti (Leila), Navid Mohammadzadeh (Alireza), Payman Maadi (Manouchehr), Farhad Aslani (Parviz), Saeed Poursamimi (oče), Nayereh Farahani (mati), Mehdi Hosseininia (Bayram)
Production company: Iris Film
Festivals and Awards: Cannes 2022: FIPRESCI Award for Best Film of the Festival; Munich 2022: ARRI/OSRAM Award – Special Mention; Golden Rooster Award (China National Film Award) 2022: Audience Award for Best Film; Melbourne 2022; Hong Kong 2022; Zurich 2022; Busan 2022; Ghent 2022; Adelaide 2022; Lisbon 2022; Singapore 2022; Santa Barbara 2023
Distributed by: Fivia – Vojnik
 

Film Theatre 2023/24

Asteroid City(USA, Spain, 2023, 144 min.)

Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.
 

Director: Wes Anderson
Screenplay: Wes Anderson
Photo: Robert Yeoman
Edited by: Barney Pilling
Music by: Alexandre Desplat
Cast: Jason Schwartzman (Augie Steenback), Scarlett Johansson (Midge Campbell), Tom Hanks (Stanley Zak), Jeffrey Wright (general Gibson), Tilda Swinton (dr. Hickenlooper), Bryn Cranston (TV voditelj), Edward Norton (Conred Earp), Adrien Brody (Schubert Green), Liev Schreiber (J. J. Kellogg), Hope Davis (Sandy Borden), Stephen Park (Roger Cho), Rupert Friend (Montana), Maya Hawke (June), Steve Carell (upravnik hotela), Matt Dillon (mehanik), Willem Dafoe (Saltzburg Keitel), Margot Robbie (igralka/žena), Jake Ryan (Woodrow), Jeff Goldblum (vesoljec)
Production company: Focus Features, Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures, Studio Babelsberg
Festivals and Awards: Cannes 2023; Sydney 2023; Auckland 2023 [the film has just started its worldwide festival-distribution journey]
istributed by: Karantanija Cinemas

Film Theatre 2023/24

Down by Law (USA, 1986, black-white movie, 107 min.)

 
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian immigrant are arrested in New Orleans and find themselves housed in the same jail cell. The Italian comes up with a plan to escape, and must convince his two cellmates to join him.
 

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Screenplay: Jim Jarmusch
Photo: Robby Müller
Edited by: Melody London
Music by: John Lurie (in pesmi Toma Waitsa)
Cast: Tom Waits (Zack), John Lurie (Jack), Roberto Benigni (Roberto), Nicoletta Braschi (Nicoletta), Ellen Barkin (Laurette), Rockets Redglare (Gig), Vernel Bagneris (Preston)
Production company: Black Snake, Grokenberger Film Production, Island Pictures (danes)
Festivals and Awards: Cannes 1986; amanda award (Norway) 1987: best foreign feature film; bodil award (Denmark) 1988: best non-European film; Robert Awards (Danish Film Awards) 1988: Best Foreign Film; Nastro d’argento Awards (Italian Syndicate of Film Critics) 1989: Best Actor (Roberto Benigni)
Distributed by: Fivia – Vojnik

Film Carousel – Season 2022/23

My Fairy Troublemaker (My Fairy Troublemaker, Germany, Luxembourg, 2023, 85 min., sync.), 7+
 
A cheeky fairy named Violetta gets lost into the human world. To go back to the fairy world, She meets and teams up with a 12-year-old girl named Maxie and discovers her true destiny.

Director: Caroline Origer
Screenplay: Silija Clemens, Pamela Hickey, Dennys McCoy
Cast: Aileen Mythen, Lucy Carolan, Alex Avenell, Paul Tylak, Brandan McDonald, Doireann Ni Chorragain, Alex Kelly, Luke Griffin, Justin Anene, Alex D’Attoma, Mary Murray
Voices: Tjaša Steklasa Horvat, Tadeja Vaupotič, Nejc Heine, Uroš Steklasa, Tai Fejzić, Ana Mandić Kalan, Ernest Fejzić, Goran Mikić in Špela Kravogel
Distribution: Karantanija Cinemas

Film Season 2022/23

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, Butan, 2019, 109 min., Slovenian Subtitles)

An aspiring singer living with his grandmother in the capital of Bhutan dreams of getting a visa to move to Australia.

Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji
Screenplay: Pawo Choyning Dorji
Photo: Jigme Tenzing
Assembly: Ku Hsiao-Yun
Sound: Duu-Chih Tu
Production: Pawo Choyning Dorji, Steven Xiang, Stephanie Ali, Jia Honglin
Cast: Sherab Dorji, Ugyen Norbu Lhendup, Kelden Lhamo Gurung, Pema Zam
Festivals and Awards: Academy Award nomination for Best International Film; Palm Springs (Audience Award); Innsbruck (Jury Award); Filmkunstmesse Leipzig (Audience Award); Ulju Mountain Film Festival (NETPAC Award); London; Busan; Gothenburg; Liffe
Distribution: Demiurg