Schedule
The Month of Our Film: The Priest's Children
To help increase the birth rate of a small town on a Dalmatian island, the young priest Don Fabijan starts to pierce condoms before they are sold.
Jim Jarmusch Retrospective: Coffee and Cigarettes
The film consists of eleven separate vignettes. In each, celebrities play semi-fictionalized versions of themselves who meet in a café or diner over coffee, tea, and cigarettes. Beyond the topic currently occupying their conversation, they often speak directly about coffee and cigarettes themselves. They most commonly discuss how coffee and cigarettes—that is, caffeine and nicotine—are unhealthy, especially when they constitute the entirety of one's lunch. Other recurring themes include the Lee family, cousins, celebrity worship, the connection between medical and musical careers, and Nikola Tesla’s belief that the Earth conducts acoustic resonance. In all cases, gathering for coffee—or tea—and smoking acts as a bridge for overcoming disagreements or making uncomfortable situations less awkward.
Inclusive projection: The Wedding
On his birthday, a well-known Croatian entrepreneur learns that he is facing bankruptcy. His family arrives at his office with a cake and tamburica musicians. At the same time, he receives a call from his daughter, who is studying in London. Along with birthday wishes, she reveals that she is pregnant. The father of the child is the son of a Serbian minister. As they begin organizing the wedding, it constantly swings between an unforgettable celebration and an international incident.
Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day
Four friends and classmates, Lovro (Dado Ćosić), Nenad (Đorđe Galić), Stevan (Slaven Došlo), and Ivan (Elmir Krivalić), join the Partisans to fight the Ustaše and Nazis. Sixteen years later, they had become renowned filmmakers in Communist Yugoslavia. However, the Party disapproved of their films. When their sexuality is called into question, Emir Hadžihafizbegović, a loyal member of the Communist Party, is sent to sabotage their careers and lives. The search for freedom becomes a struggle for survival for the artists and a challenge to Emir’s own beliefs.
Jim Jarmusch Retrospective: Father Mother Sister Brother
The film explores the complex relationships between adult children and their estranged or semi-estranged parents in the United States, Ireland, and France. Jeff (Adam Driver) and his sister, Emily (Mayim Bialik), travel to visit their father (Tom Waits), whom they have not seen in a long time. Meanwhile, in a lavish Dublin home, a mother (Charlotte Rampling) speaks with her therapist on the phone while awaiting the arrival of her daughters, Timothée (Cate Blanchett) and Lilith (Vicky Krieps). Twins Billy (Luka Sabbat) and Skye (Indya Moore) visit the Paris apartment of their deceased parents for the last time.