December 18, 2024, 13:44
The 2024/2025 edition of Vary At Your Cinema presents the next films of its spring season. The previously announced January sneak preview of Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino’s latest, Parthenope, will be followed in February by the outstanding Czech documentary The Other One; in March, audiences can see the Brazilian candidate for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film I’m Still Here; and in April we are showing the award-winning Bird, which was screened in main competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival (for detailed information on the films, see below). The May and June films will be announced over the course of the winter. Season tickets for the second half of the 2024/2025 season are now on sale. They are the perfect Christmas gift, and not just for cinema fans, since Vary At Your Cinema doesn’t just show great films but also creates a festival atmosphere including a red carpet, and the screenings are preceded by interesting and stimulating introductory talks.
“The spring half of the second edition of Vary At Your Cinema continues with a set of unique films that open up new geographical, cultural, and social horizons while presenting powerful and gripping tales. Their main protagonists are women of all ages, both real and fictional, possessing of an uncommon inner strength that is sure to impress, fascinate, and move audiences,” says KVIFF’s artistic director Karel Och.
The spring program of Vary At Your Cinema
8 January 2025: Parthenope (dir. Paolo Sorrentino, Italy / France, 2024)
No contemporary world-class filmmaker has come as close to finding the perfect cinematic definition of beauty as Paolo Sorrentino. For the first time in his career, the creator of The Great Beauty has placed a female heroine at the center of the action – the enchantingly beautiful Parthenope, whose life he presents in chapters spanning several decades. But Parthenope is also a past name for the inimitable city of Naples, whose attraction may prove fateful.
12 February 2025: The Other One (Marie-Magdalena Kochová, Czech Republic / Slovakia, 2024)
Eighteen-year-old Johana wants to escape her small hometown. She yearns to complete high school and to leave for university. But the final year of high school is more difficult for her than for her classmates: she plays an indispensable role in her family, where she helps out every day in caring for a younger sister with a disability. Johana represents the phenomenon of “glass children” – so called because they are unintentionally overlooked by their overburdened families. This observational documentary explores the long-ignored subject of healthy siblings of children with special needs.
12 March 2025: I’m Still Here (Walter Salles, Brazil / France, 2024)
Walter Salles’s political biopic about a mother and activist looking for her husband, the dissident politician Rubens Paiva, who was disappeared during the era of the military dictatorship in Brazil, has several awards and nominations to its name. Among other things, it won the Best Screenplay prize at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, it has been nominated for two Golden Globes (Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress for Fernanda Torres), and on 17 December it was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
16 April 2025: Bird (Andrea Arnold, United Kingdom, 2024)
Eight years after her last film, director Andrea Arnold returned to the spotlight to present her newest work at the Cannes Film Festival. An unusual coming-of-age story set in North Kent, Bird captures the gritty poetry of the streets, softened by subtle hints of magical realism. A boisterous soundtrack, featuring an unusual use of the song “Yellow” by British band Coldplay, combines with brilliant performances by Franz Rogowski, Barry Keoghan and the film’s young star Nykiya Adams to elevate the story to a state of infectious euphoria.
14 May and 11 June 2025
Because of ongoing negotiations with distributors, the final two films will be announced during the winter months.
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