Catalogue

Teenager Benny is a video freak. His favourite tape shows a pig being slaughtered with a bolt gun. His isolation and fascination with violent images eventually leads to a shocking act that his well-to-do family attempt to cover up. An Oscar-nominated drama by Michael Haneke.

Something Different brings together the stories of two thirtysomething women who have never met but are grappling with the same problem: Their daily lives are monotonous and they want change.

With this rare gem from the Norwegian Film Institure, the ArteKino Classics collection is showing Europe Liv Ullmann’s film debut for the first time.

In 1980s Albania, a military regiment keeping horses is disbanded under suspicion of being involved in a coup against the communist dictator.

Forty years ago, it was a Yugoslav film. Today, it is a Serbian film. With his first feature, Emir Kusturica made a remarkable debut on the international film scene.

The big-screen incarnation of the first two series of the joyfully irreverent BBC series, Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

Brutish fairground showman Zampano buys the young and simple-minded Gelsomina from her mother and takes her on the road. Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina star in Fellini’s heart-breaking film.

Govert Miereveld teaches law at a girls’ school where he falls in love with one of his pupils. Classic Belgian cinema from the 1960s.

Trying to escape the stifling austerity of East German society, a young singer seeks a life without constraints. Sunny just wants to be free… A bittersweet film that brought GDR film production to a Western audience.

This is the story of a couple: Antoine and Thérèse. She works in the village with her mother. He is up on the mountain pastures tending to the animals with his uncle Séraphin, who is like a father to him. One day, a landslide buries Antoine and Séraphin. Thérèse, who is pregnant, thinks she is a widow.

Real life and fiction blur as a choreographer in charge of staging Carmen falls in love with the principal dancer.

An old, impoverished, married couple have a change of luck when they come into a big inheritance.

An unmarried mother with six children from five fathers is a cause for scandal in a small Irish town with traditional values. A comedy based on the novel ‘We are Seven’ by Irish writer Una Troy.

A newly-married couple on their way home from their honeymoon stay at a deserted grand hotel on the Belgian coast. There they encounter a mysterious and beautiful countess and her aide.

An old man is ready to do anything to get, against the advice of his family, the motorised vehicle of his dreams. This film by Marco Ferreri is a cinematic gem full of dark humor.

A night of hope, a night of tragedy, a night of love. The madness of humanity is captured in a single city, terrorised by weapons.

Juli seeks refuge in a women’s shelter and meets its director, Mari. Both tormented by their unstable relationships with their husbands, the two women form a beautiful friendship.

An English couple travels to Italy. After their arrival in Naples, cracks start to show in their relationship.

In this unbridled satirical comedy, a dam keeper on the Danube River suffers the absurdities of the communist regime in the 1950s.

Laurie, a cynical schoolgirl, builds a secret friendship with Pete, an older man who seems obsessed with her.

The daily struggle of Ayi, an unwanted resident who is battered from pillar to post by the urban projects of an ultra-modern Shanghai.

A slice of life of young Swiss teenagers, far from the all-present glittering social media self-portrayals.

At a time when love invades digital spaces, two millennials filmed the evolution of their relationship for a year.

Tbilisi, 1992. In a post-Soviet Georgia in free fall, Eka and Natia, both 14 years old, find in their friendship a refuge from the chaos that surrounds them.

Two Portuguese settlers disembark in the middle of the Congo rainforest to coordinate a trading outpost.

A young couple sets out on a humanitarian journey to the Donbass region of Ukraine.

A young mother returns home after a hospital stay and has to cope with an emotionally distant husband and her own simmering guilt.

Mike and his sister Ingrid survived the murder of their parents. Twenty years later, they work in a diamond mine. When they discover a legendary diamond, the White Fire, they think their luck is about to turn. But the gem is about to get them into a whole lot of trouble.

A man decides to rebuild a humble farm with his family in a rugged region of Estonia in 1872 and must contend with the hostility of his surroundings.

Uninterested by the responsibilities of adult life, a disaffected 28-year-old Aleksi decides instead to spend her time chasing infatuations with various men.

A stray dog named Laika was the first living being to be sent into space. Legend has it that her ghost now roams the streets of Moscow.

A story that brings to light an unknown hero 30 years after the fall of communism.

A magic tale about three generations of women in a post-Soviet village.

Laurie, a cynical schoolgirl, builds a secret friendship with Pete, an older man who seems obsessed with her.

A slice of life of young Swiss teenagers, far from the all-present glittering social media self-portrayals.

Three female soldiers report from the frontline of the war in Ukraine. They are fighting against the separatists and against patriarchal society.

Real life people play versions of themselves, in a love triangle set in a facility for disabled youth.

A documentary about addiction seen through the eyes of a mother and her son.

Al drama painting a portrait of a generation immersed in the digital world.

What does it mean to be oneself? And what price is to be paid for achieving such a state?

The struggle of a couple who must face the reality of immigration, between hope and disenchantment.

In southern Italy, a farming family’s isolated existence becomes besieged by a sinister destiny.

The film is a journey; a bridge between worlds; a proposal to overcome barriers; a new chapter in life.

A story of love affairs that aren’t what they seem, of consequences, and of fate’s inevitable interferences.

Irina is 22 years old and has one burning desire that will allow her to escape her dysfunctional family: study.

A psychologist agrees to take two patients to a psychiatric ward and ends up embarking on a therapeutic journey along the coast.

A group of construction workers fight their bosses by any means available.

Isa records messages with a tape recorder in case she disappears or loses her memory.

A reunion of old friends. An isolated house in a forgotten valley. A collection of memories and love stories from the abyss.

Against all odds, a budding love affair forms between Bruno and Duša, who live in an elderly home for people with dementia.

A moving coming of age story about liberation and acceptance.

How French inventor Jean Dejoux used a simple shoebox to revolutionise the world of animation in the 1960s.

In a post-crisis Spain, a mother and daughter try to maintain the lifestyle they think they deserve.

A film about reclaiming one’s body and accepting one’s own imperfections through pole dancing.

In a dystopic world set in the near future, everyone’s reputation is measured by their “Karma count”.