Tuesday's selection of films is for big thinkers who we'll provide with rich intellectual food for thought. The recent films of directors Lars von Trier, Steven Spielberg and Sulev Keedus have found their place here, all of which make sense of the passage of time in their own way.
Today's PÖFF films are also full of stories of this time. Among them is the story of the Chelsea Hotel, which has been a kind of cultural cradle for the most prominent musicians and artists of the past century, and the man who invented and made snowboarding a reality. In addition, powerful dramas that won a jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival and won at the San Sebastian Film Festival, which offer deep food for thought.
See all PÖFF films screening on Tuesday here.
15. Nov, Tuesday at 6 p.m., Coca-Cola Plaza
At the first PÖFF in 1997, the two previous parts of "The Kingdom" were shown, which have now received a worthy continuation. With the movie “The Kingdom: Exodus" we continue and concludes Lars von Trier's work that became a cult series in the 1990s: a ghost story about a hospital built on the site of former linoleum pits in Copenhagen, where evil takes root and medical science fights with itself on a daily basis, where Swedes curse the Danes and where the mysterious and inexplicable mix with horror and humor.
15. November, Tuesday at 18:30, Solaris cinema
Steven Spielberg's most personal film to date is based on the director's childhood passion for filmmaking and the family dynamics that permeated his work. The stars of the film are many famous actors: we see Gabriel LaBelle as Sammy Fabelman, a 16-year-old novice filmmaker; four-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams as her creative mother Mitzi; Paul Dano plays Burt, a successful scientist father; We see Seth Rogen as Bennie Loew, who is both Burt's best friend and the "honorary uncle" of the Fabelman family's children.
15. Nov, Tuesday at 18:30, Coca-Cola Plaza
Pille, whose last close relative is her daughter living in Finland, defies her old age and tries to herd sheep alone. Felix is worried about the bees. Hives remain empty, colonies die out, queen bees do not lay enough eggs for new generations to hatch. The priest Agaton serves his small local Orthodox congregations, blesses and distributes communion. All the characters in this fresh film by Sulev Keedus are natives who witness the rapidly changing times around them.
15. November, Tuesday at 17:15, Solaris cinema
Jake Burton was and still is the pioneer of snowboarding culture, who turned it into an art and a cultural form and a completely separate phenomenon that is enjoyed by a very large number of people in the world today. Under his leadership, snowboarding reached the biggest sports arena in the world - the Olympic Games. The film is an emotional and honest insight into his legacy and life, which was not without its ups and downs.
Dreaming walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel
15. Nov, Tuesday at 21:00, Coca-Cola Plaza
Bob Dylan wrote his songs in room #211. In room #205, Dylan Thomas fell into a coma. In Room #100, Sid Vicious stabbed his girlfriend. Andy Warhol, Arthur Miller, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Robert Mapplethorpe have lived and worked here. This sad film is dedicated to all those who have found and continue to find inspiration in the bohemian atmosphere of the legendary Chelsea Hotel. An elegiac ode to a vanishing age, its great and small spirits.
15. November, Tuesday at 19:30, Solaris cinema
After a farewell party for friends in Barcelona, the architect couple Helena and Ivan, who are expecting a baby, move to a country house where Helena's aunt has left 480 hectares of cork forest. It soon turns out that their opinions about life in the country differ 100 percent. 18-year-old Karim also enters the equation, which puts the joint future of the inheritors to the test. The director's first feature film won the FIPRESCI award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
15. Nov, Tuesday at 21:30, Coca-Cola Plaza
Based on the award-winning book of the same name by Paolo Cognetti, the film is a beautiful and indescribably sad story about the friendship of two men who cannot talk about their feelings or share their lives with each other. Meetings with each other teach the men about love and loss and help them remember their roots. "The Eight Moutains", won the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
15. Nov, Tuesday at 7 p.m., Coca-Cola Plaza
Shakib, a homeless construction worker, develops a relationship with Laden, a deaf-mute woman who is still recovering from the loss of her wife and child years ago. Suddenly, it turns out that a film about the horrors perpetrated by Hitler during the Second World War is currently being shot at the construction site where Shakib works. "World War III" was recognized as the best film in the "Horizons" program of the Venice Film Festival and was nominated by Iran for the Oscar for the best international film.