More worth your time at the same venue, plus a few nearby picks.
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Contactos
Screening of Contactos, a dissident Spanish film from 1970 exploring political activism and communication through experimental narrative structure at Sala Plató.
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Kontinental '25
Romanian sheriff Orsolya must evict a homeless man from a building slated for luxury hotel conversion in Cluj. An unexpected event triggers a moral crisis in this drama at Sala Plató.
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Circo + Notes on the Circus
Two films on circus spectacle: Jonas Mekas' 1966 montage of Ringling Brothers and Los Hijos Collective's exploration of circus as cultural institution.
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Sorella di Clausura
Stela pursues a famous Balkan musician after obsessing over him on television, following a promise from Vera, an emerging music star, to help her meet him in Bucharest.
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Photophobia + Dreamscape
Double feature at Sala Plató pairing Photophobia, a Slovak-Czech-Ukrainian film about childhood trauma and violence, with Dreamscape, exploring fear and uncertainty through memory and dreams.
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A Salto de Mata
Film adaptation of José Luis Zerón's poetry diary explores the Vega Baja landscape and interior world of the Orihuela poet through day and night imagery at Sala Plató.
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The Secret Life of Plants
Film screening of The Secret Life of Plants (1979) with Stevie Wonder's score, exploring sensory and communicative capacities of vegetation through experimental documentation.
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Liberated Energies: Claudine Eizykman
Retrospective of Claudine Eizykman, founder of Paris Films Coop and French structural cinema pioneer, screening her radical experimental films at Sala Plató.
