Be2Can Bratislava

The eleventh edition of the Be2Can film festival will offer a dramaturgically refined selection of the most outstanding films from the Berlin, Venice and Cannes festivals. It will take place in Bratislava from 09 to 16 October 2024 and will showcase brand new filmmaking voices as well as the work of iconic directors.

It will premiere 11 films, including the spectacular opus Megalopolis, the heart project of visionary director Francis Ford Coppola. The Film Europe cinema in Pistori Palace in Bratislava will once again become the centre of the festival, where most of the side events will also take place. The show will be inaugurated on 9 October 2024 at Cinema City Eurovea Bratislava with the black and white Mexican film La Cocina by director Alonso Ruizpalacios.

You can look forward not only to Francis Ford Coppola’s polarising Megalopolis (2024), but also to the Special Jury Prize-winning appealing fresco of contemporary Iran, The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024), the video game aesthetic reminiscent of an animated film, Flow (2024), and the raw conversational drama Armand (2024), which took home the festival’s Camera d’Or. Fresh from last year’s Cannes edition, the grotesquely multi-genre Vincent Must Die (2023) and a completely re-cut and restored version of the shocking cult classic about the infamous Emperor Caligula, Caligula – The Ultimate Cut (2023), will round out the fresh new releases.

From this year’s Berlinale, the Golden Bear-winning Dahomey (2024), which experiments with narrative against the backdrop of post-colonial issues, heads into the programme, as does the gritty New York restaurant operation present in La Cocina (2024), the melancholic and absurdist odyssey into the lives of the Sesquicentennials, Sasquatch Sunset (2024), and auteur Hong Sang-soo’s fragile found-footage film A Traveler’s Needs (2024). Last year’s Venice programme will be enriched by the black-and-white metaphysical The Universal Theory (2023) and the intimate portrait of a transgender woman against the backdrop of the evolution of Polish society The Woman from… (2023).

The show will be officially opened on 9 October at Cinema City Eurovea Bratislava with a screening of the aforementioned film La Cocina. Inspired by the award-winning play, the black-and-white Mexican film focuses on a tourist-laden kitchen in New York’s Times Square, which employs immigrants in deplorable conditions, literally struggling to survive in their new country. The only island of hope for the immigrant protagonist is the love of a fellow American, played by actress Rooney Mara.

The show will also include a variety of side events in the form of expert introductions and Q&A with foreign filmmakers. There will also be the popular Michal Havran Round Table or a creative workshop for children.

Be2Can will introduce the audience to the ways in which film language can be bent and offer a platform for critical discussion. Get ready for an intense experience and a hypnotically immersive atmosphere!

Premieres:

Megalopolis

La Cocina

Flow

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Armand

Dahomey

A Traveler’s Needs

The Universal Theory

Sasquatch Sunset

Woman of…

Vincent must die

Caligula – The Ultimate Cut

Location: in Kino Film Europe, Artkino za Zrkadlom, Kino Lúky, Kino Mladosť, Kino Inak, Cinema City Aupark and Artkino za mirkadlom
Date: from 11.10.2023 – 18.10.2023
Start: from 14:00 – to 23:45

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