Film Festival

La chimera

Italy/France/Switzerland, 2023, 130'

We all have our own Chimera, something we want to achieve but can never find. For a gang of robbers targeting Etruscan tombs,…

Mutt

USA, 2023, 87'

Feña, a young trans man from New York is facing a challenging day. Within a 24-hour period, his father, straight ex-boyfriend and 13-year-old…

Once Within a Time

USA, 2022, 52'

Renowned director Godfrey Reggio returns after a decade with a new experimental film different from anything he had filmed before in his bold…

Incident

USA, 2023, 30'

“The eminent poet of lost films” Bill Morrison uses footage from police body and other surveillance cameras to reconstruct the Chicago police shooting…

Bye Bye Tiberias

France/Belgium/Palestine/Qatar, 2023, 82'

Leaving her village to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass (Inheritance) left behind her mother, grandmother, and seven sisters. Thirty…

The Beast

France/Canada, 2023, 146'

In the near future where human feelings are a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA using a machine that will delve…

Working Class Goes to Hell

Serbia/Greece/Bulgaria/Montenegro/Croatia, 2023, 127'

After losing loved ones, jobs, and their dignity to a factory fire and due to dubious privatisation, a group of former workers turns…

Favoriten

Austria, 2024, 118'

For her latest documentary Favoriten, Ruth Beckermann spent three years observing a primary school class of seven- to ten-year-old girls and their devoted…

Critical Zone

Iran/Germany, 2023, 99'

Amir leads a lonely life. With his dog for sole company, he drives through the underworld of Tehran, dealing drugs of all kinds…

A Traveler’s Needs

South Korea, 2024, 90'

The incomparable Isabelle Huppert portrays a woman of mysterious past in her third collaboration with the Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo, known for his…

Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory

Mohanad Yaqubi (Subversive Film), Palestine, France, Jordan, Lebanon, USA, UK, 2015, 62'

“For people who suffer from invisibility, the camera would be their weapon.” Elias Sanbar In an age dominated by the moving image, imagine…

R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity

Mohanad Yaqubi (Subversive Film), Palestine, Belgium, Qatar, 2022, 71'

R21 aka Restoring Solidarity is a film about making a film, it’s also a film about films, it exists on the margins of…

Conversation with Ulrike Ottinger

Cosmos Ottinger is the title of the programme by which the Art Pavilion in Zagreb, in collaboration with the Subversive Film Festival and…

Under Snow

Germany, 1972/73, 50'

In Echigo in Japan the snow often lies several feet deep well into May covering landscape and villages. Over the centuries the inhabitants…

Ticket of No Return

Germany, 1979, 107'

She, a woman of exquisite beauty, of classical dignity and harmonious Raphaelesque proportions, a woman, created like no other to be Medea, Madonna,…

Madame X – An Apsolute Ruler

Germany, 1977, 141'

On the women’s ship Orlando the flags of attack, leather, weapons, lesbian love and death are raised with a beauty which dispenses with…

Freak Orlando

Germany, 1981, 126'

In the form of a “small theater of the world”, a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the…