More worth your time at the same venue, plus a few nearby picks.
DOCUMENTARY
A Hidden Vanguard: Slovenian Experimental Cinema I, Vinko Rozman
Vinko Rozman created over twenty meticulous shorts between 1963-1971 within Ljubljana's experimental cinema scene, blending sociopolitical reflection, sports films, and intimate conceptual meditations with literary citations.
CINEMA
Fetish and Power
Programme exploring fetishism as a practice where desire fixes on objects, gestures, or roles. Examines how pleasure constructs itself through role-play, embodied limits, and surrender, making desire a visible axis of identity.
CINEMA
Obscure Avant-garde: Slovenian Experimental Cinema II - Various Artists
Slovenian experimental films made outside Yugoslav industry, restored by the Slovenian Film Archive. Selection spans existential post-war reflection, atomic-era anxieties, and 1970s countercultural spirit, including Fantastična Balada.
DOCUMENTARY
Body Crossing Documentary Screening
World premiere of Megane Mercury's documentary at Sala Borau capturing a year-long cultural mediation project with migrants and asylum seekers exploring identity and belonging in Madrid.
CINEMA
No Ghosts on Good Street
Film at Sala Borau. Four siblings approach adulthood while striving to build independent lives without losing the bonds that unite them, navigating family ties and personal ambition.
CINEMA
Patty Is Such a Girly Name
An 18-year-old judoka from a remote Greek island moves to Athens to pursue Olympic dreams, facing love, betrayal, and painful truths that may break or strengthen her.
CONTEMPORARY
The Nazi Body: Power and Aesthetics in Leni Riefensthal's Cinema
Nayra Sanz Fuentes discusses how images shape our understanding of power through Third Reich cinema, interrogating the body as political space and its contemporary echoes. Presented with professor Germán Cano Cuenca.
EXHIBITIONS
Body Crossing Documentary Screening
Screening and public conversation with creators and participants of the Cuerpo Travesía mediation project at Cineteca Madrid, exploring migrants' experiences of identity and belonging.
