Apocalypse
France, 2024
Directed by: Benoit Méry; screenplay Benoit Méry; cinematography Louis Hanquet; contact: mcavagna@grec-info.com; format: DCP, colour; running time: 14'22"Deep in Hellfest, the biggest French metal festival, music gradually takes possession of metalheads.
Silent Panorama
Belgium, 2024
Directed by: Nicolas Piret; screenplay: Nicolas Piret; animation: Nicolas Piret; contact: zorobabel@zorobabel.be; format: DCP, colour; running time: 5'
In the middle of nature, two campers, intrigued by outside noises, cross the deserted landscape, lamp in hand. Cracking, trickling and other sounds give life to these places, home to a silent fauna, almost invisible, but still very present.
Rhoda
Great Britain, 2024
Directed by: Alex Lawther; screenplay: Alex Lawther; cinematography: David Pimm; contact: contact@premium-films.com; format: DCP, colour; running time: 18'37"
After years of living alone, Rhoda takes in a lodger, but the change unsettles the equilibrium of her home.
Genealogy of Violence / Généalogie de la violence
France, 2024
Directed by: Mohamed Bourouissa; screenplay: Mohamed Bourouissa, Jean-René Etienne, David H. Pickering; cinematography: Paul Guilhaume; contact: anais@manifest.pictures; format: DCP, colour; running time: 15'15"
A young man sits in the car with his girlfriend. Two policemen in an unmarked car pull up to command a routine identity check. They invite him to step out of the car, and proceed to a pat-down, before the eyes of his dismayed girlfriend.
Exit Through the Cuckoo's Nest / Izlaz kroz ludaru
Switzerland, 2024
Directed by: Nikola Ilić; screenplay: Nikola Ilić; cinematography: Nikola Ilić; contact: andy@rainafilms.com; format DCP, colour; running time: 19'10"
A soldier who never wanted to be one, decides to never pull the trigger. His defiance leads to a military prison. Faking mental illness, he detours away from the front line through a lunatic asylum back home to Belgrade on the day that NATO begins bombing the entire country.
The Exploding Girl / La Fille qui explose
France, 202
Directed by: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel; screenplay: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel; animation: Lucien Krampf, Saradibiza; contact: oriane@atlasv.io; format: DCP, colour; running time: 19'02"
For the past three months, Candice has been exploding every day. Sometimes even two or three times a day. Her record is seven daily blowups, and her current total score is 192.
I'm Glad You're Dead Now
Greece, France, Palestine, 2025
Directed by Tawfeek Barhom; screenplay Tawfeek Barhom; cinematography: Giorgos Valsamis; contact: festival@shortcuts.pro; format: DCP, colour; running time: 13'11"
Two brothers return to the island of their childhood, where buried secrets and heavy tensions force them to confront a dark past that connects them.
Talk after Screening
17 Nov at 21:00, Slovenian Cinematheque, guests: Benoit Méry (Apocalypse, director), Nikola Ilić (Exit Through the Cuckoo's Nest, director), Tawfeek Barhom (I'm Glad You're Dead Now, director), moderators: Matevž Jerman / Juca Bonaca / KRAKEN