Sunday Feb 14, 8 PM [Re-Run: Sunday Feb 21, 12 NOON]

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D: Andrzej Żuławski, C: Andy Gillet, Clémentine Pons, Jean-François Balmer, Jonathan Genet, Johan Libéreau, DOP: André Szankowski, FR/PT 2015, 102 min., French OwEs – GP Andrzej Żuławski is back from a 15-year hiatus and delivers a film buoyant with sensuality, enigmatic incident and comically bonkers surrealism. Adapted from a novel by Witold Gombrowicz, it sees a failed student and a fashion victim thrown off-kilter by a chain of absurd mood changes and erotic obsessions while staying in a family guesthouse.

preceded by:

MAY WE SLEEP SOUNDLY (QUE NOUS NOUS ASSOUPISSIONS) [Tickets]

D: Denis Côté, DOP: Jessica Lee Gagné, CA 2015, 14 min., no dialogue – GP

An unseen figure barges into anonymous houses, peeping on the sleeping residents on one snowy Québec morning. Welcome to the latest fascinating creation of director Denis Côté, which is eerie, playfully ambiguous and methodically constructed.

after the screenings:

Debate: WORLD-BUILDING

What are the rules of the game and who has the authority to play them? We discover films that test the integrity of our perspectives.

Guests: Denis Côté (Director), Paulo Branco (Producer), Cintia Gil (Director, Doclisboa Film Festival), Boyd von Hoeij (Film critic, The Hollywood Reporter).

Moderation: Joseph Fahim (Woche der Kritik), Michael Hack (Woche der Kritik).