Program ARTA Cinema

Corneliu Porumboiu and his father, former referee Adrian Porumboiu, revisit a football match played in 1988 between Steaua and Dinamo, in the middle of a snowstorm, one year before Ceauşescu’s fall. The game becomes a reflection on memory, communism, and truth.

Ibrahim and Zehra are husband and wife. An argument over a coffee table spirals into chaos when a simple mistake turns into a desperate web of lies, panic and deception. Trying to cover up the truth may have terrifying consequences!

Raised in a secluded deaf community, cracks begin to appear in Matt’s world when the arrival of enigmatic outsider Eva forces him to question his own deaf identity and lived experience. Is Matt prepared to discover the dark truths that lie beneath the surface of the place he calls home and the lengths his community will go to in order to protect the collective mission?

Since Russia’s attack on Ukraine and Finland’s accession to NATO, three Russian women living in Finland develop radically different attitudes toward Putin’s Russia and their own identity. While one completely rejects her Russian roots, the others continue to hold on to them.

Different generations in a dysfunctional extended family are searching for the same near impossible thing: the perfect fulfilment of life. We have Victor, who is finally coming out of the closet only to realize that he is too old for the gay dating market, his sister, opera diva Annika, who reimagines her life after receiving a terminal diagnosis, grandmother Joke who is tired of life and just wants to die, as well as 10-year-old Timo who is checking off his bucket list believing he only has one week left to live.

Following the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many people in Russia are faced with a terrible choice: military service, prison, or exile. Margarita, Yuri and their friends refuse to comply with the regime and leave the country knowing they will never come back. Here is their story.

This film is not suitable for children   Four wealthy middle-aged friends retreat to a secluded villa with the intention of eating themselves to death. As they indulge in endless excess, their grotesque banquet gradually turns into a savage satire of bourgeois decadence and consumer society.  

When horror director José Sirgado receives a package of strange Super 8 films from an eccentric acquaintance, he becomes trapped in a disturbing game where filmmaking itself appears to drain life from those who surrender to it. A cult film that allegedly spent most of its budget on heroin!

Roy Cohen, an Israeli filmmaker of Arab-Jewish descent, addresses his Palestinian friend Aseel Asleh, killed by Israeli police in their youth, through an intimate cinematic dialogue across time. Revisiting their shared past at a peace camp in Maine, he confronts memory, friendship and the ongoing violence shaping the present, using letters, archives and conversations to explore loss, moral responsibility and the collapse of a once-possible future of coexistence.

On December 3rd, 2024, in Seoul, the President declares martial law in an attempt to overcome a political crisis. As troops advance toward the National Assembly, citizens rush to block them while lawmakers break through police barricades to vote against the decree. The confrontation unfolds into a powerful civic resistance against military control, echoing the Gwangju Democratic Uprising 45 years earlier, one of the deepest traumas in South Korea’s history.