FILMANAK 2024

Documentary special: Thu 17.10.2024 | 20:00 | OmeU
Stuttgart, Innenstadtkinos EM3
Königstr. 22

Female Miners

(orig. Rudarke)
Director: Marija Đoković und Nataša Janković

Original version with English subtitles
Running time: 45 min.

The film follows two weeks in the lives of women working at the Rembas lignite mine. Jasmina is the first woman to have become a mine manager, and Milanka is the last one left working in coal separation.

Guest: filmmaker Marija Đoković

Thu 21.11.2024 | 20:00 | OmeU
Stuttgart, Innenstadtkinos CINEMA
Königstr. 22 (2nd floor)

Guardians of the Formula

(orig. Čuvari formule)
Director: Dragan Bjelogrlić

Original version with English subtitles
Running time: 118 min.

In the midst of the Cold War crisis, a group of scientists at the Vinča Institute is carrying out a secret project led by Professor Dragoslav Popović. Due to unforeseen circumstances, they are exposed to a lethal dose of radiation, and the Yugoslav secret police take them to the Curie Clinic in Paris for treatment. The French medical team led by Professor Georges Mathé concludes that their condition is critical and their days are numbered. Although Professor Mathé has devoted his whole life to fighting nuclear weapons and deeply despises the project the Yugoslav scientists were working on, he proposes to carry out, for the first time in history, a delicate and uncertain bone marrow transplant. Is it an experiment on living people, or does he really want to help them? For the Yugoslav scientists, this becomes an agonising question.

Fri 22.11.2024 | 20:00 | OmdU | FSK 6
Stuttgart, Innenstadtkinos CINEMA
Königstr. 22 (2nd floor)

The Summer I Learned to Fly

(orig. Leto kada sam naučila da letim)
Director: Radivoje Andrić

Original version with German subtitles
Running time: 90 min.

SOFIA, a lively twelve-year-old girl who wants to get her first kiss this summer, has to spend the summer with her protective grandmother MARIA (67) on an island in Croatia. In the old family house, time stands still and Sofia struggles with the daily monotony. Her only bright spot is her loving Nonna LUCE (65). Grandma Maria, on the other hand, is overwhelmed by strong emotions on returning to her hometown. Sofia overcomes her initial boredom and starts to enjoy her holiday, discovering that her two grandmothers may not be as uninteresting as she thought. She tries to create her ideal summer while also trying to get Grandma Maria to bridge the family rift caused by a long-standing feud. Sofia is torn out of her carefree days when Luce falls ill and Sofia is left in the middle of the night on the doorstep of relatives she never knew existed. As she gets to know and befriends her new relatives – and at the same time experiences her long-awaited first kiss – Sofia finally has the summer she dreamed of.

Sun 24.11.2024 | 20:00 | OmeU
Stuttgart, Innenstadtkinos EM4
Königstr. 22

My Morning Laughter

(orig. Moj jutarnji smeh)
Director: Marko Djordjević

Original version with English subtitles
Running time: 90 min.

Although he is almost thirty, Dejan is still a virgin. He tries to suppress the inner chaos he feels – caused by living under one roof with his alcoholic father and his overprotective mother – enough to find out whether he can have more than friendship with Kaća, a nice girl he works with. After being humiliated by the local medium, Dejan realises he has nothing to lose. Strengthened by this insight, he tries to make his life at least bearable.