The 31st Liffe (11–22 Nov 2020) is establishing a new partnership with Poklon viziji (Omaggio a una visione), a transborder film festival organised by Kinoatelje in cooperation with partners from Slovenia and Italy. This year’s winner of the Darko Bratina Award and the principal guest at the Poklon viziji festival is Serbian director Srdan Golubović, whose latest film, Father / Otac (2020), will receive its Slovenian premiere on 7 October at Cankarjev dom – as a prelude to this year’s Liffe – and will be later screened within the context of Liffe’s regular programme. 

A small town in Serbia. Nikola, day labourer and father of two, is ordered to give up his children to social services after poverty and hunger drive his wife to commit a desperate act. Until he can provide adequate conditions for their upbringing, the children will be placed in foster care. Despite Nikola's best efforts and several appeals, the head of the social services centre refuses to return his children and his situation seems hopeless. But when Nikola discovers the local administration may be corrupt, he decides to travel across Serbia on foot and take his case directly to the national ministry in Belgrade. Against all odds and driven by love and despair, this father refuses to give up on justice and his right to raise his children.

In compliance with the measures adopted by the Government of the RS to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus epidemic, the event has been postponed.

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With the participation of: philosopher Borut Ošlaj, PhD, and physician Dušan Keber, MD, PhD

Hosted by: Ali Žerdin, PhD

The round table will address the subjects introductorily explored by Yuval Noah Harari in Homo Deus: Is it true that mankind is striving for immortality? How is society affected by life-prolonging treatments and development of bio- and nanotechnology?
 

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In accordance with the decree of  Ministry of Health of Republic of Slovenia, released on March the 9th 2020, to prevent the spread of Covid-19 virus, all events in Cankarjev dom are suspended until March 15th 2020.
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Luka Omladič, PhD, member of the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology; Michele Leonardi, PhD, Country Leader at IBM Slovenia; Boštjan Spetič, founder of Zemanta Information and Communication Technologies

Hosted by: Ali Žerdin, PhD

The starting point of the round table is the realization that whilst an astounding organ, brain has been evolutionarily made for circumstances that are different to those prevailing in the modern world. Can artificial intelligence bridge this gap?

Hosted by: Patricija Maličev

Among other subjects, Dario Maestripieri, an Italian primatologist and a Professor of Comparative Human Development, Evolutionary Biology, and Neurobiology at The University of Chicago, conducts research on macaque monkeys (Macaca mulatta), highlighting the many parallels between the social behaviour of rhesus macaques and human beings. The macaques live in hierarchical communities and, according to Maestripieri, display Machiavellian intelligence.
 

A true story about a Mafia boss, Tommaso Buscetta, whose testimony at the largest anti-Mafia trial in history allowed the conviction of hundreds of mobsters.

In the early 1980’s, an all-out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing he may be next. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazilian police, Buscetta makes a decision that will change everything for the Mafia: He decides to meet with Judge Giovanni Falcone and betray the eternal vow he made to the Cosa Nostra.

Roman Polanski po več kot desetletju svoj pogled ponovno usmerja v preteklost in prikaže razplet enega največjih političnih škandalov v francoski zgodovini. Velika nagrada žirije v Benetkah.

5. januarja 1895 obetavnemu oficirju Alfredu Dreyfusu zaradi vohunjenja za Nemčijo odvzamejo vojaški čin, ga obsodijo na dosmrtno ječo in ga pošljejo na Hudičev otok. Njegovemu ponižanju je priča tudi Georges Picquart, novi vodja vojaške obveščevalne enote, ki je dokazala Dreyfusovo krivdo. Ko Picquart odkrije, da zaupne informacije še vedno uhajajo na nemško stran, se znajde v nevarnem labirintu prevar in korupcije, ki ogrožajo ne samo njegovo čast, temveč tudi njegovo življenje.

A period piece set in the fifties but seen through modern eyes, this irresistible “tropical melodrama” tells the story of an unbreakable bond between two Brazilian sisters. Winner of the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes.

Rio de Janeiro, 1950. Eurídice, 18, and Guida, 20, are two inseparable sisters living at home with their conservative parents. Although immersed in traditional life, each one nourishes a dream: Eurídice of becoming a renowned pianist, Guida of finding true love. In a dramatic turn, they are separated by their father and forced to live apart. They take control of their separate destinies, while never giving up hope of finding each other.

Vanesa Aibar is a rising young star of contemporary flamenco. Following in the footsteps of great innovators like Andrés Marín and Belén Maya, she likes to use flamenco as a starting point for venturing into modern or (Spanish) classical dancing. In her latest work, Sierpe (Serpent), Aibar goes in search of a new flamenco dance language through different representations of the serpent female/goddess created since ancient times. The serpent, an ambivalent symbol of new life, sensuality and resurrection, but also of vengefulness and destruction, makes its appearance in a refreshing flamenco incarnation in this new work by Vanesa Aibar, which received its world première at the Flamenco Biënnale Netherlands and now travels to Bi Flamenco for its Slovenian premiere.
 

Cast:
Viktoria Mirošnicenko (Ija), Vasilisa Pereljgina (Maša), Andrej Bikov (Nikolaj Ivanovic), Igor Širokov (Saša), Konstantin Balakirev (Stepan), Ksenia Kutepova (Saševa mama), Timofej Glazkov (Paška)
Awards:
Cannes 2019 – Un Certain Regard (Best Director, FIPRESCI Prize), Erevan/Yerevan (Second Best Feature)

An intimate drama about a close friendship between two young women trying to piece together the fragments of their lives in the aftermath of war.
1945, Leningrad. World War II has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Although the siege - one of the worst in history - is finally over, life and death continue their battle in the wreckage that remains. Two young women, Iya and Masha, search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.