Events

Invention for Destruction, based on the books by Jules Verne is the most successful film of the former Czechoslovakia and an imaginative proto-steampunk adventure based on incredibly innovative visuals, in which a scientist and the apocalyptic device he has built are hunted by ferocious pirates as they battle giant monsters in the depths of the sea. 

As if in response to John Cassavetes' The Husband and Wife, HUSTRUER was the breakthrough film by the Norwegian Anja Breien. After 15 years at a class reunion, three old friends meet each other, and set off on a multi-day journey of hitting on men, sitting in taverns, laughing and reflecting on life as wives, mothers and as successful, unhappy, disappointed, lost and rediscovered people in their own right. 

Danny Boyle, best known for Trainspotting, together with lead actor Cillian Murphy, brought his low-budget masterpiece, which updated the zombie film genre for the 21st century, to life in a way that will forever be etched in the minds of its viewers: Jim, a wheeled messenger who wakes up from an empty hospital, wanders the empty streets of London in a daze until he is attacked in a church full of corpses by the fast-moving, bloodthirsty undead and, among other things, by the dead. Godspeed You! The iconic survival horror, framed by songs from Black Emperor, bursts into full swing. The film is getting its second sequel this year, 28 Years Later, the follow-up to 2007's 28 Weeks Later. 

Mysterion, a documentary film by Pirjo Honkasalo (e.g. 3 Rooms of Melancholia, Concrete Night), one of the most renowned, lauded and award-winning Finnish directors, follows life inside the walls of the Pyhtitsa Nunnery in Northeastern Estonia. Honkasalo's first film in 12 years, Orenda, starring Alma Pöysti and Pirkko Saisio, arrives in Finnish cinemas in April

The epic & satirical black comedy Underground, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes the year it was released, is an absurdist story set in the midst of the wars of Yugoslavia's disintegration, a glimpse into the brutal reality of Eastern Europe. Spanning three episodes through World War II, the Cold War and finally the war of disintegration, the story centres on the unbreakable friendship between two arms dealers, Marko and Blacky.