Be2Can Bratislava

The tenth anniversary edition of the Be2Can film festival will offer a dramaturgically refined selection of the most outstanding films from the Berlin, Venice and Cannes festivals. Taking place in Bratislava from 11 to 18 October 2023, it will showcase brand new filmmaking voices as well as the work of iconic directors.

Be2Can will thus introduce audiences across the programme to the ways in which the language of cinema can be bent and offer a platform for critical discussion. Get ready for an intense experience and a hypnotically immersive atmosphere!

PROGRAMME:

1. Disco Boy

After an arduous journey across Europe, Alexei arrives in Paris and joins the French Foreign Legion – an elite, select military unit that any undocumented foreigner can join and obtain a French passport. In the Niger Delta, Jomo fights against the oil companies that threaten the existence of the village in which he lives. His sister Udoka, however, dreams of escaping because it is clear to her that all is already lost. Across the border, between life and death, their destinies intersect.

2. Golda

A gripping drama that captures the responsible and controversial decisions Golda Meir – also known as the “Iron Lady of Israel” – had to face during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

3. Music

Loosely inspired by the myth of Oedipus. After being born in the Greek mountains during a stormy night, Jon is abandoned and adopted without knowing his father or mother. As a young man, he meets Iro, the warden at the prison where he ends up after a tragic accident. Iro seeks out his presence, cares for him and records music for him. Jon’s eyesight begins to fade… From then on, for every loss he suffers, he gains something. And so, despite his blindness, he lives his life more fully than ever.

4. Stars at noon

A young American journalist is forced to stay in present-day Nicaragua, where she falls in love with a mysterious Englishman who seems to be her best chance of getting away. But she soon realizes that he may be in even more danger than she is. The film is an adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novel.

5. Jeanne du Barry

The film tells the life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of a poor seamstress in 1743, but eventually became the last mistress of Louis XV.

6. We might as well be dead

A prefabricated house on the edge of the forest awakens people’s hope of becoming its inhabitants, as it is one of the last bastions of civilization in a world in decay.

7. Saint Omer

The Court of Saint-Omer. Young writer Rama follows the trial of Laurence Coly, a young woman accused of killing her fifteen-month-old daughter, whom she left for dead at high tide on a beach in northern France. In the course of the trial, however, the testimony of the defendants and individual witnesses will shake Rama’s conviction of her guilt and call into question our own judgment.

8. The Old Oak

The future of the last remaining pub, the Old Oak, in a village in the North East of England where people are leaving the country because the mines have closed. Houses are cheap and available, making the village an ideal place for Syrian refugees.

9. Tori and Lokita

In one of their best films, the Dardenne brothers deliver a powerful, socially realistic statement about humanity and humanism. A young boy and a teenage girl who arrive in Belgium from Africa face the hardships of immigration thanks to their inseparable friendship.

10. All that beauty and bloodshed

This film, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, is an epic, emotional and thoughtfully constructed story about internationally acclaimed artist and activist Nan Goldin. The film is told through her presentations, private interviews, groundbreaking photographs, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis from their drug that triggered the so-called opioid crisis.

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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