02/03/2026 19:00  At Amirani Cinema

Writing Life

Director: Claire Simon

90’ / 2025 / France

SUB:ENG

French writer and Nobel Prize laureate Annie Ernaux is one of the central figures of contemporary feminism, whose texts bring together intimate and collective experience. Claire Simon observes her

work in French classrooms and shows how Ernaux’s words awaken young people in the process of reflecting on their own experiences and striving for freedom.

09/03/2026 19:00  At Amirani Cinema

Be pretty and shut up!

Director: Delphine Seyrig

112’ / 1981 / France

SUB:ENG

In 1975 Delphine Seyrig recorded interviews with twenty-four actresses in France and the US, including Maria Schneider, Jane Fonda, and Shirley MacLaine, about their experience across the industry. Through their words, Seyrig reveals the frustrations of working within the patriarchal studio system.

16/03/2026 19:00  At Amirani Cinema

Songs of slow-burning Earth

Director: Olha Zhurba

93’ / 2024 / Ukraine, France, Sweden

SUB:ENG

An audiovisual diary of Ukraine’s immersion into the abyss of the first two years of Russia’s full

invasion, made up of places, occasional characters, rare dialogues, intraframe sounds and silences

which, when put together, capture the chronology of how the war became normalised. Against the

backdrop of this (meta)physical landscape of collective disaster.

 23/03/2026 19:00  At Amirani Cinema

Shorts

Whitney Commercial

Director Suzan Pitt

3’ / 1973 / USA

SUB:ENG

Commissioned by David Bienstock, creator of the New American Film Series at the Whitney Museum of Art to raise funds for the second season of the series. The film was projected at the end of each program and a box to receive donations was placed at the exit of the theater. Whitney Commercial ran for two or three years until the Museum agreed to sponsor the series on its own which has continued to the present season.

Gap-Toothed Women

Director: Les Blank, Maureen Gosling, Chris Simon, and Susan Kell

31’ / 1987 / USA

SUB:ENG

Gap-Toothed Women is a documentary that explores cultural ideas of beauty and difference through the experiences of women with a gap between their front teeth. Through informal interviews and everyday moments, the film gently examines self-esteem, discomfort, and self-acceptance, subtly challenging dominant beauty standards while celebrating the value and individuality of each subject.

A PORTRAIT OF GA

Director: Margaret Teit

5’ / 1952 / UK

SUB:ENG

A poetic documentary that portrays the daily life of the filmmaker’s mother, Ga. In just five minutes, it captures human character and the quiet, subtle beauty of everyday life through the camera.

Four Roads

Director: Alice Rohrwacher

8’ / 2020 / Italy

SUB:ENG

In Four Roads, Alice Rohrwacher observes rural neighbors and their daily lives during the pandemic. Shot on 16 mm film, the work brings warmth and intimacy to the screen, showing how human connections can emerge in everyday life despite physical distance.

First Comes Love

Director: Su Friedrich

22’ / 1991 / USA

SUB:ENG

The film shows several wedding ceremonies set to popular love songs. By focusing on details, the exchange of rings, the wedding vows, body language, it invites viewers to reflect on the relationships between love, commitment, and cultural expectations, and to question the meanings behind them.

History of water

Directors: Jean-Luc Godard François Truffaut

12' / 1958 / France

SUB:ENG

This short, partly improvised film uses humor to tell the story of the Paris floods. François Truffaut began filming but quit production out of respect for those left homeless by the disaster. The film was later completed by Jean-Luc Godard. Using bold visual and sound editing typical of the French New Wave, the film features a radical structure and an almost anarchic blend of the conventional and the erudite.

PUSSY/Cipka

Director: Renata Gąsiorowska

8’ / 2019 / Poland

SUB:ENG

A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo pleasure session, but not everything goes according to plan.

Crocus

Director: Susan Pitt

7’/ 1971 / USA

SUB:ENG

Crocus is one of Suzan Pitt’s earliest experimental animated films, made on 16mm using paper cut-outs and hand-drawn animation. The film has a surreal, poetic tone and shows everyday moments of domestic life in a dreamlike way. Butterflies, birds, flowers, and vegetables move through the space, turning ordinary scenes into something symbolic and strange.

30/03/2026 19:00  at Amirani Cinema

Knits Island

Directed by Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L'Helgouac'h 

95’ / 2023 / France

SUB:ENG

Somewhere on the internet is a land where communities pretend to live out a survivalist fiction.

The “players” reveal their fears and fantasies, in an at times unsettling blurring of the real and the virtual. The avatars of the directors of Knit’s Island spent 963 hours there.

06/04/2026 19:00  At Amirani Cinema

Bye Bye Tiberias

Director: Lina Soualem

83’ / 2023 / France, Palestine

SUB:ENG

Leaving her village to follow her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass also left behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to journey through the vanished places among the scattered memories of four generations.

 13/04/2026 19:00  At Amirani Cinema

Dahomey

Director: Mati Diop

68’ / 2024 / France, Senegal

SUB:ENG

In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris and are returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country that has reinvented itself in their absence?

20/04/2026 19:00  At Amirani Cinema

The Andersson Brothers

Director: Johanna Bernhardson

85’ / 2024 / Sweden, Finland

SUB:ENG

Brothers Leif, Ronny, Roy, and Kjell haven’t seen each other in ten years. There was no great conflict, they simply drifted apart. Their lives took very different paths – Roy Andersson is a world-renowned filmmaker, Kjell makes historical documentaries, Leif was a political activist and athlete. Ronny wrestled all his life with alcohol and drug abuse and died in a homeless shelter. Leif’s daughter Johanna, the mother of three children, wants to bring the surviving siblings together and make a film about them. But it is harder than she thought. The film’s interviews, documentary footage, and archive material give equal time to each of the brothers, the famous and the less so. It covers their childhood in a working-class Gothenburg family, their youth, and the way they deal with illness and alcoholism, which have touched all of them. Her film is a very personal portrait of a family, but also a reflection on art, alienation, and what is really important in the end.

Meeting with the director

 27/04/2026 19:00  At Amirani Cinema

Radiograph of a Family

Director: Firouzeh Khosrovani

82’ / 2020 / Iran, Norway, Switzerland

Radiograph of a Family is a poetic documentary by Firouzeh Khosrovani that explores her parents’ marriage as a reflection of Iran’s cultural and political tensions. The film uses family photos, archival footage, letters, and voice-overs to tell the story of a secular, Western-minded father and a deeply religious mother whose differences shaped both their home and their country’s history before and after the Iranian Revolution.

04/05/2026 19:00  At Amirani Cinema

Gambling, Gods and LSD

Director: Peter Mettler

180’ / 2002 / Canada, Switzerland

SUB:ENG

Peter Metler’s documentary takes the form of a journey, exploring people’s search for ecstasy, faith and transcendent experiences. The camera moves through different cultures and places - from the world of gambling to religious rituals and psychedelic experiments. It is a meditative journey about belief, chance and the meaning of life.

11/05/2026 19:00  At Amirani Cinema 

De Facto

Director: Selma Doborac

130’ / 2023 / Austria, Germany 

SUB:ENG

How can cinema deal with complicity in crimes against humanity, extreme violence and state terror without conniving in it? De Facto finds answers to this question via two actors, a precisely compiled collage of texts and a deliberately reduced setting.

18/05/2026 19:00  At Amirani Cinema

La belle année

Director: Angelica Ruffier

95’ / 2026 / Sweden, Norway

While emptying her childhood home after the death of her father, Angelica reminisces about an intense and solitary love she had as a teenager.

Meeting with the director

 25/05/2026 19:00  At Amirani Cinema

Metropolis

Director: Fritz Lang

150’ / 1927 / Germany

One of the most iconic films ever made, Fritz Lang’s dystopian classic is as thrilling today as it was on release in 1927. A mind-blowing visual symphony, Lang’s deeply influential vision is both the foundation of sci-fi cinema and a time-honoured gateway to the expressive wonders of silent film.