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Wednesday | 29.05.19 to Monday | 31.12.29
Wednesday | 29.05.19 to Monday | 31.12.29
Best of Fests

Tina is a customs officer with a unique sense of smell. When she encounters a mysterious man who resembles her, her special skills are compromised, and she develops a strange obsession towards him. Ali Abbassi weaves folklore, tragic romance, and existential questions into a highly affective cinematic tale.

Wednesday | 29.05.19 to Monday | 31.12.29

The Gentle Indifference of the World

Saltanat’s mother sends her to the city to marry a man who will pay off her father’s debts. Accompanied by her admirer Kuandyk, she discovers that city men do not keep their word. Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s film navigates us through existential contemplations on the impossibilities of life.

Wednesday | 29.05.19 to Monday | 31.12.29
Wednesday | 29.05.19 to Monday | 31.12.29
Culture on Screen

Kenneth MacMillan’s 20th-century balletic reworking of Shakespeare’s great romantic play. The ballet features stunning pas de deux for the young lovers and exciting crowd scenes, including some breathtaking sword fights.

Wednesday | 29.05.19 to Monday | 31.12.29

Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power. At the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.

Wednesday | 29.05.19 to Monday | 31.12.29
Wednesday | 29.05.19 to Monday | 31.12.29
Wednesday | 29.05.19 to Monday | 31.12.29

Simon Russell Beal, one of Britain’s finest Shakespearean actors, plays the title role in this bold re-telling of William Shakespeare’s Richard II. The staging is visceral and modern, powerful and intense. This is a stripped-back version which focuses on the essence of the story – a power struggle between two failing leaders, ruling a divided country.

Wednesday | 29.05.19 to Monday | 31.12.29
Wednesday | 29.05.19 to Monday | 31.12.29
Wednesday | 29.05.19 to Monday | 31.12.29
Wednesday | 29.05.19 to Monday | 31.12.29
Wednesday | 29.05.19 to Monday | 31.12.29