Director: Urška Djukić
Screenplay: Urška Djukić, Maria Bohr 
Cinematography: Lev Predan Kowarski 
Editing: Vlado Gojun 
Cast: Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Švajger, Saša Tabaković, Nataša Burger, Staša Popović, Mateja Strle, Saša Pavček 
Production: SPOK films, Staragara (Jožko Rutar, Miha Černec) 

Urška Djukić’s debut feature film Kaj ti je deklica premiered in Berlinale’s Perspectives Competition this February. Perspectives, Berlinale’s a new international competitive strand for fiction feature debuts, shines a spotlight on new filmmakers. The features represent an international range of voices who have a bold and fluent cinematic language and offer arresting perspectives and new ways of seeing the world.

The film focuses on introverted 16-year-old Lucia, who joins her Catholic school’s all-girl choir, where she befriends Ana-Maria, a popular and flirty third-year student. But when the choir travels to a countryside convent for a weekend of intensive rehearsals, Lucia’s interest in a dark-eyed restoration worker tests her friendship with Ana-Maria and the other girls. As she navigates unfamiliar surroundings and her budding sexuality, Lucia begins to question her beliefs and values, disrupting the harmony within the choir.
 

The film is co-produced by Staragara IT (Italy), 365 Films (Croatia), Non-Aligned Films (Serbia), and Nosorogi and OINK (both Slovenia). The associate producer is Sister Production (France).

The film is supported by the Slovenian Film Centre, Eurimages, RTV Slovenija, Viba Film, Ministero di Cultura – Direzione Cinema e Audiovisivo in Italy, FVG Flm Fund, FVG Film Commission, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Film Centre Serbia, RE-ACT Joint Development Fund, Region Nouvelle Aquitaine and Creative Europe MEDIA. The film is sponsored by Arri’s International Support Program and GO Nova Gorica/Gorizia European Capital of Culture 2025.

Urška Djukić – filmography (selection)
Dober tek, življenje! (2016, kratki), Lovka (2019, kratki), The Right One (2019, kratki), Babičino seksualno življenje (2021) 

Screenplay: Slobodan Maksimović 
Cinematography: Rožle Bregar 
Editing: Jurij Moškon 
Cast: Zoran Predin, Oto Rimele, Karpo Godina, Boris Bele, Đorđe Balašević, Boris Cavazza, etc. 

An emotional and inspiring biopic, Praslovan follows the life and career of Zoran Predin, one of former Yugoslavia’s most important singer-songwriters. The film traces Predin’s journey from his youth in Maribor, where he started playing music, to the height of his fame with the band Lačni Franz and his solo career, which made him a music scene icon.

Slobodan Maksimović – filmography (selection)
Štiri skice za portret Janeza Drozga (2008), Hvala za Sunderland (2012), Tehnika ljudstvu (2015), Od Soče do Sočija (2015), Nika (2016), Kapa (2022) 

Written by: Rajko Grlić, Matjaž Ivanišin 
Photography: Matjaž Ivanišin, Lev Predan Kowarski, Darko Sinko, Rajko Grlić, Marko Brdar, Marko Cafnik, Matjaž Mrak
Music: Drago Ivanuša 
Production: Vertigo

A documentary about the making of the theatre performance Boris, Milena, Radko and the four very famous people behind the production, the writer and director Dušan Jovanović, the actress Milena Zupančič and the actors Radko Polič and Boris Cavazza; a story about a love triangle and the multi-layered, entirely undisguised interlacement of the protagonists’ public personas and personal lives.
 

Written by: Kenneth Branagh, after William Shakespeare
Cinematography: Alex Thomson 
Music: Patrick Doyle 
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Kate Winslet, Judi Dench, Gérard Depardieu, John Gielgud, Jack Lemmon, Robin Williams... 

The only unabridged cinematic adaptation of Hamlet. Kenneth Branagh’s version is famous for being the only integral version of the play, running just over four hours. Branagh makes bold directorial choices, putting his unique stamp on the adaptation, a lavishly produced spectacle set in the 19th century but retaining the original Elizabethan English. 

Branagh’s version is faithful to the original play, published in 1623, but uses modern narrative techniques, numerous flashbacks, to variegate the narrative and depict scenes that are only described in Shakespeare but not performed, such as Hamlet's childhood friendship with Yorick, or scenes that the play only alludes to, such as Hamlet's sexual relationship with Ophelia. 

Hamlet premiered at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival and went on to win four Academy Award nominations. It will be screened in two parts with an intermission.
 

Patricija Maličev in conversation with Jovanović's colleagues and companions – Milena Zupančič, Saša Pavček, Bjanka Adžić Ursulov and Ljubiša Ristić.

Production of the exhibition Dušan Jovanović – Cultural Terrorist: Slovenski gledališki inštitut (Slovenian Theatre Institute) and Cankarjev dom
 

Written by: James Mangold, Jay Cocks, based on Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric! 
Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael 
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Edward Norton, Monica Barbaro, Scoot McNairy 
Distribution: Blitz

Mangold’s biopic follows Minnesota musician Bob Dylan's meteoric rise as a folk singer, from the early 1960s when he arrived in New York to visit the ailing Woody Guthrie, to concert halls and the top of the charts – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. 
Dedicated to the formative years of the "voice of a generation", with lead actor Timothée Chalamet performing Dylan’s songs himself, the musical drama focuses on the era-defining star’s early complicated romantic relationships with Sylvie Russo and Joan Baez, as well as his relationship with his fans and the press, which he made a point of avoiding. 

Screenplay: Laila Stieler
Cinematography: Judith Kaufmann
Cast: Liv Lisa Fries (Hilde Coppi), Johannes Hegemann (Hans Coppi), Lisa Wagner (Anneliese Kühn), Alexander Scheer (duhovnik Harald Poelchau), Emma Bading (Ina Ender-Lautenschläger), Sina Martens (Libertas Schulze-Boysen), Lisa Hrdina (Grete Jäger), Lena Urzendowsky (Liane Berkowitz), Hans-Christian Hegewald (Albert Hößler), Nico Ehrenteit (Harro Schulze-Boysen), Jacob Keller (Heinrich Scheel)
Producent: Pandora Film Produktion
Distribution: Cinemania
 

A drama based on the lives of real Nazi resistance fighters, foregrounding the quiet strength of a young woman defying the regime in Nazi prisons with a principled stand and a belief in human kindness.

Berlin, 1942. The inconspicuous, kind and compassionate Hilde with no interest in politics to speak of, gradually finds her place in the resistance group which will come to be known as the "Red Orchestra". Hilde falls in love with the slightly shy Hans, flourishes and, in spite of the constant danger to her life, is happy for a summer. When the Gestapo arrest members of the group in the autumn, the pregnant Hilde is among their number. In prison, she develops unexpected strength, giving birth to her son and keeping the memory of her beloved husband alive. With her principled moral stand, Hilde becomes the face of all those Germans who refused to embrace the delusional ideology of the Third Reich.

Screenplay: Line Langebek Knudsen, Magnus von Horn
Cinematography: Michal Dymek
Music: Frederikke Hoffmeier
Cast: Vic Carmen Sonne (Karoline), Trine Dyrholm (Dagmar), Besir Zeciri (Peter), Ava Knox Martin (Erena), Joachim Fjelstrup (Jorgen), Tessa Hoder (Frida), Ari Alexander (Svendsen), Per Thiim Thim (Olaf Jensen), Soren Satter-Lassen, Dan Jakobsen, Anna Tulestedt, Thomas Kirk, Benedikte Hansen (Peter Secher Schmidt), Agnieszka Przyborowska-Mitrosz
Producent: Nordisk Film Production & EC1 & Lava Films & Lower Silesia Film Centre & Film i Väst
Distribution: Fivia d.o.o.

The Girl With The Needle is inspired by true events surrounding the most controversial murder case in Danish history.

Karoline, a young factory worker, finds herself abandoned and pregnant while striving to climb out of poverty in post WWI Copenhagen. Amidst her struggles, she meets Dagmar, a charismatic woman running a hidden adoption agency within a candy store, helping poor mothers in finding foster homes for their unwanted children. To escape poverty, Karoline takes on the role of a wet-nurse. A strong connection is formed between the two women, yet Karoline's world shatters as she stumbles upon the dreadful revelation of the nightmarish fate she unknowingly embraces.

Screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar, Sigrid Nunez 
Cinematography: Eduard Grau
Music: Alberto Iglesias
Cast: Tilda Swinton (Martha), Julianne Moore (Ingrid), John Turturro (Damian Cunningham), Alex Hogh Andersen, Alessandro Nivola, Esther McGregor, Melina Matthews, Juan Diego Botto, Victoria Luengo
Producent: El Deseo
Distribution: Blitz film & video distribution d.o.o.

 

Pedro Almodóvar won the Golden Lion at this year's Venice Film Festival for his first English-language feature, dealing with the controversial topic of euthanasia.

Ingrid and Martha have been close friends since their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter. Eventually, they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme situation. Martha is in the hospital fighting a battle with cancer. Her illness is serious: she's undergoing a highly experimental immunotherapy treatment, but her chances are slim. She wants to find a house upstate and end her life in peace - but she wants Ingrid to come with her, and to be in the room next door when it happens.