In this edition, animals are also the protagonists. You wanted a section with only animal films, didn’t you?
🦜 𝙆𝙤𝙠𝙞, 𝘾𝙞𝙖𝙤
A documentary not about the former president of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, but about his parrot, Koki, very talkative at the age of 67.
🐟 𝙏𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙖
Speaking your mother tongue is a good way to maintain a connection to your culture. But if that fails, perhaps other means can be used, such as learning more about a fish and its history.
🐶 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙙, 𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙈𝙚
The Serbian director’s feature debut is a tribute to his late mother. (…) In the mix, there’s a lost dog that will become part of the family and the grieving process.
🌊 𝙊 𝙐́𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙤 𝘼𝙯𝙪𝙡
In a dystopian Brazil where old people are forced to isolate themselves from society, 77-year-old Teresa rebels to fulfil a dream, on an adventure down the Amazon River.
*This film won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale.
🐠 𝙁𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮
A film that treads the blurred line between documentary and fiction to explore a story that seems more like myth than reality: Caspar Salmon tells how, in 1980, he went to a meeting on an island in Wales where only people with surnames related to fish were present.
🫎 𝙇𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙚𝙫𝙧𝙚𝙪𝙞𝙡
A beautifully coloured animation that explores a mother’s absolute and total need to get rid of her husband and children in order to have a fun afternoon to herself, chasing a doe.
To help you navigate your way through more than 200 films, we’ve suggested some of the themes we’ve found in our programme. You can also search using our filters on the website. 🙂