By unreal we mean the unpredictable, that which when seen with our own eyes, is real or at least seems to be. The following works express ideas and phenomena that are indescribable, in the language of personal experience and the inexplicable feelings hidden in their shadows.
Here you will find food for thought in an invisible enemy lurking over your shoulder, a humorous utopia perched on the edge of the world, and existential questions in broad arcs.
Nov. 16, Tuesday at 8:15 p.m., Apollo Kino Solaris
A mysterious pink and deadly cloud is taking over the whole world. People are being forced to stay in isolation. Resonating with our current corona predicament - "what if things had gone even worse", but also an interesting way of thinking about how a person would exist without nature, being closed to the territory of only one small apartment. What alternatives do they find to the usual habits of life?
Wednesday, Nov. 17 at 9 p.m., Coca-Cola Plaza
"Nothing has changed, the world is still the same. You walk down the street, turn around and everything is exactly as it should be. However, it is quite different.” Exactly as clearly or unclearly, one can sum up “No. 10” by Dutch master Alex van Warmerdam, who is in the best cinematic shape of his life and shows that 69 old years is exactly the right age to make crazy movies for those who still appreciate superbly absurd humor.
Nov. 20, Saturday at 3 p.m., at Coca-Cola Plaza
World premiere with film guests
The equally sublime and deep “A Vanishing Fog” is perfect for film gourmets who can appreciate the delicate rawness of a film polished to perfection. It’s for those who love film art in its most extreme manifestations and deepest existential layers. Director, screenwriter, producer and editor Augusto Sandino blends the poetry of his thoughts in an entirely unique handwriting into the visual language of “A Vanishing Fog”.
Nov. 22, Monday at 6:45 p.m., Coca-Cola Plaza
International premiere. With director Piotr Stasik and producer Pawel Kosun
A group of teenagers escape a computer game camp after group leaders confiscate their computers and remove their internet access. How to survive in a world where the only light that feeds the meaning of life is cut off? Director Piotr Stasik powerfully dissects the nature of identity formation, in the experimental layers of poetic dramaturgy and the bitter cost of personal development that is ruthlessly demanded from kids growing up.
Nov. 23, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., Coca-Cola Plaza
World premiere. With lead actor Kurmanbek Mamyrov
Arsen is an artist who creates worlds into which he loses himself. The romance between reality and the imagined begins. The journey of the main character is full of both deep love and loneliness, which has been translated into pictorial language. It’s a masterful visual narrative of the film that should not leave any thoughtful viewer uneffected. The author of the film, Marat Sarulu, won the title of the best director at PÖFF in 2014 for the film "Move".
Alice, Through the Looking: À la recherche d’un lapin perdu
Thursday, Nov. 25 at 9:00 pm, Coca-Cola Plaza
What happens when, after Wonderland, Alice discovers herself in the post-Brexit UK? Philosophy student Alice's world turns upside down one morning after a masquerade party, when her soulmate, Rabbit, met the crazy evening before, disappears into the air without a trace. To top it off, the whole playful night has been commented on by flesh and bone Slavoj Žižek, among a consistently fascinating cast.