52. International film festival – FEST 2024 / 24.02.2024.
Saturday, February 24
Ticket price 400 dinars
17:00
STELLA. A LIFE / STELLA. EIN LEBEN
Germany, 2023, 121’
Director: Kilian Riedhof
Cast: Paula Beer, Jannis Niewöhner, Katja Riemann, Lukas Miko, Bekim Latifi, Aaron Salomon, Joel Basman, Damian Hardung, Gerdy Zint…
Stella, a young German Jew, grows up in Berlin during the rule of the Nazi regime. She dreams of a career as a jazz singer, despite all the repressive measures. After she is forced to go into hiding with her parents in February 1943, her life turns into a tragedy. Through a betrayal, she is caught by the Gestapo, tortured and becomes a “grabber”: to save herself and her parents from deportation to Auschwitz, Stella begins to systematically betray other Jews. From September 1943 until the end of the war, Stella Goldschlag delivered hundreds of fellow Jews to the Gestapo.
Festivals: Göteborg Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival…
19:30
MY LITTLE NIGHTTIME SECRET / Odin malenkiy nochnoy sekret
Russia, 2023, 91’
Director: Natalya Meshchaninova
Cast: Taisia Kalinina, Stepan Devonin, Elena Plaksina, Aleksandra Abrameytseva, Anastasiia Artamonova, Danya Kiselyov, Oleg Savostyuk, Margarita Silaeva…
Mira is fourteen. Her life is fine: she has a mother, a stepfather, a little sister, there are gifts for Christmas, and a cat. She has a girlfriend, and she is even allowed to party at her place the night of the New Year. But there is something wrong about Mira. One little nighttime secret.
Festivals: International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ljubljana International Film Festival, Shanghai International Film Festival…
22:00
SIDONIE IN JAPAN / Sidonie au Japon
France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, 2023, 95’
Director: Élise Girard
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, August Diehl, Tsuyoshi Ihara…
Japan, nowadays. Sidonie Perceval, an established French writer, is mourning her deceased husband. Invited to Japan for the reedition of her first book, she is welcomed by her local editor who takes her to Kyoto, the city of shrines and temples. As they travel together through the Japanese spring blossoms, she slowly opens up to him. But the ghost of her husband follows Sidonie: she will have to finally let go of the past to let herself love again.
Festivals: Venice Film Festival, Thessaloniki Film Festival, Reykjavik International Film Festival, Geneva Film Festival, Marrakesh International Film Festival, Göteborg Film Festival…
