DKC FILM PROGRAM / JUNE 10 – 17
18:00 Mirrors No. 3 / Miroirs No. 3
Germany, 2025, 86’
Director: Christian Petzold
Cast: Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, Enno Trebs…
On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura’s presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine. But soon they can no longer ignore their past…
Festivals / Awards: Cannes Film Festival (Directors’ Fortnight), Lisbon Film Festival – Special Jury Award; Sydney Film Festival, Munich Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival, New York Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Vienna International Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Palm Springs 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
