INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
WORLD PREMIERE
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ZEJTUNE
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by Alex Camilleri (LUZZU)
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2026 - Malta/Germany/Qatar - Drama - 108 min
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with Michela Farrugia, Nenu Borg, Michael Azzopardi
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After her estranged mother’s death, Mar plans to leave Malta for good by selling the farmland she’s inherited. But as she travels the island to claim her land, she meets Nenu, an irrepressible 80-year-old folk singer whose music and spirit challenge her desire to escape. An unexpected connection between past and present grows as Mar slowly warms to the homeland she wanted to turn her back on.
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Screenings:
THU 29 JAN 18:00 BIO ROY World Premiere
FRI 30 JAN 15:00 CAPITOL
SUN 01 FEB 09:45 BIOPALATSET 10
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
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CALLE MALAGA
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by Maryam Touzani (THE BLUE CAFTAN, ADAM)
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2025 - Morocco/France/Spain/Germany/Belgium - Drama - 116 min
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with Carmen Maura, Marta Etura, Ahmed Boulane
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Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, Morocco, and enjoys her daily routine. However, her life is turned upside down when her daughter arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has always lived. Determined to stay, she does everything she can to get her home and her belongings back and, unexpectedly, rediscovers love and sensuality.
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Screenings:
SAT 24 JAN 17:00 BIO ROY
SUN 25 JAN 12:15 CAPITOL
THU 29 JAN 12:30 BIOPALATSET 6
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FRANZ
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by Agnieszka Holland (EUROPA, EUROPA, MR JONES, GREEN BORDER)
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2025 - Czech Republic/Germany/Poland - Biopic/Drama - 127 min
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with Idan Weiss, Peter Kurth, Jenovéfa Boková, Ivan Trojan
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Award-winning director Agnieszka Holland is embarking on her most ambitious project to date, a biopic of the iconic 20th-century Czech writer Franz Kafka. Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film will follow the imprint Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his death in post-WW1 Vienna. FRANZ will give the audience a brand new perspective on the life of the man behind the literary giant.
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Screenings:
THU 29 JAN 20:30 BIOGRAF DRAKEN
FRI 30 JAN 14:00 STORA TEATERN
SAT 31 JAN 17:00 BIOPALATSET 10
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STRANGE RIVER
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by Jaume Claret Muxart (Debut Feature)
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2025 - Spain/Germany - Drama - 105 min
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with Jan Monter, Nausicaa Bonnín, Francesco Wenz
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Sixteen-year-old Dídac and his family are spending the summer holidays on a bicycle trip along the Danube. An unexpected encounter with a boy changes the course of the journey, with his enigmatic presence awakening new feelings in Dídac and disrupting his relationship with his family.
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Screenings:
MON 26 JAN 19:45 GÖTA 1
TUE 27 JAN 14:45 CAPITOL
THU 29 JAN 19:45 BIOPALATSET 7
SAT 31 JAN 13:30 GÖTA 3
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SILENT FRIEND
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by Ildiko Enyedi (ON BODY AND SOUL, MY 20TH CENTURY, THE STORY OF MY WIFE)
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2025 - Germany/Hungary/France - Drama - 147 min
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with Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Léa Seydoux
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In the heart of a botanical garden in a medieval university town in Germany stands a majestic ginkgo tree. This silent witness has observed over a century the quiet rhythms of transformation across three human lives. 2020, a neuroscientist from Hong Kong, exploring the mind of babies, begins an unexpected experiment with the old tree. 1972, a young student is profoundly changed by the simple act of observing and connecting with a geranium. 1908, the university’s first female student discovers, through the lens of photography, sacred patterns of the universe hidden within the humblest of plants. We follow their clumsy, awkward attempts to connect — each one of them deeply rooted in their own present - as they are transformed by the quiet, enduring, and mysterious power of nature. The ancient ginkgo tree brings us closer to what it means to be human — to our longing to belong.
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Screenings:
TUE 27 JAN 17:45 BIOPALATSET 6
THU 29 JAN 19:30 AFTONSTJÄRNAN
FRI 30 JAN 12:00 BIOPALATSET 9
SUN 1 FEB 13:00 BIOPALATSET 7
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