DKC FILM PROGRAM / JUNE 4 – 6

18:00 HISTERIA
Germany, 2025, 103’
Director: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
Cast: Devirm Lingnau, Mehdi Meskar, Serkan Kaya, Nicolette Krebitz…

When a burned Quran is found on a film set, the shoot takes a dark turn and the crew are thrown into turmoil. Caught in the crossfire, an intern, Elif, is drawn into a dangerous game of secrets, accusations and lies. Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s ambiguous, provocative conspiracy thriller plays with the film-within-a-film motif and is rich in unexpected twists. A piercing reflection on the power of images and the dynamics of perception, projection and societal hysteria.

Festivals / Awards: Berlin International Film Festival – Winner Label Europa Cinemas; Hamptons International Film Festival – Honorable Mention; Haifa International Film Festival…

20:00 Bitter Christmas / Amarga Navidad
Spain, 2026, 111’
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Belén Riquelme, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Bárbara Lennie,  Rossy de Palma, Milena Smit…

Bitter Christmas tells two alternating stories, one starring Elsa, an advertising director, in 2004, during a long weekend in December. The second takes place in 2026 and stars Raúl, a screenwriter and director who is writing a script that we soon discover is the story of Elsa, her boyfriend Bonifacio, and her friends Patricia and Natalia. Mixed with fiction, Elsa is, in a way, Raúl’s alter ego, who resorts to autofiction as a solution to a long period of creative drought. He looks inside himself, and he can’t help but also look at the people who make up his most intimate universe: his partner and his assistant. The film narrates the close relationship between reality and fiction, between inspiration and life, raising the debate about the limits of autofiction.

Festival: Cannes Film Festival

Tickets: 400 din