We invite you to Women’s Day at the Meduza Cinema!
Special shows and a number of surprises from our partners. Quizzes, competitions and lots of good cinema!
We also have a special show – in cooperation with PZG Opole, we invite deaf people from the entire Opole Voivodeship at 5 p.m.!
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17:00 SALA STENO
Falling Leaves dir. Aki KaurismΓ€ki, Finland 2023, 81 min. +
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Ansa is a taciturn employee of the local supermarket, while Holappa earns her living in construction. What they have in common is their noble disposition and the series of failures they both experience at every turn. The woman has just lost her job because her superiors did not like the humane gesture she made, while the man is struggling with a serious alcohol problem.
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18:00 – SALA ORION
The Sisterhood of the Holy Sauna dir. Anna Hints, Estonia/France/Iceland 2023, 89 min.
A story about the power of sisterhood, the beauty of every body and the cleansing power of saunas.
18:00 – EURIAL HALL
Previous Life dir. Celine Song, USA/South Korea,
2023, 106 min.
In-Yun is a Korean belief that people become closer to each other because their souls met in previous incarnations. Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) grew up together in South Korea. Separated by fate as children, they find each other years later thanks to social media. Finally, their love and migration odyssey will take them both to New York. Nora is already married and Hae Sung is newly single.
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20:00 – EURIAL HALL
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dir. Kaouther Ben Hania, France/Tunisia/Germany 2023, 107 min.
Kaouther Ben Hania’s film is a true story of a mother and her four daughters, residents of Tunisia. The lack of freedom and rights, the deepening radicalism of the state and its approach to women and their bodies, as well as the violence experienced throughout their lives, led young women to tragic events. The two eldest daughters joined the Islamic State (Daesh) in Libya, committing terrorist attacks together with a group of jihadists in Tunisia in 2015.
Ben Hania, using such techniques in his film as having actresses play the missing daughters, replacing the mother in painful scenes with an actress, or recording all the conversations that took place between real characters and impersonators, incredibly enhanced the truthfulness and drama of the entire story.
20;00 – SALA ORION
A Better Tomorrow dir. Nanni Moretti, Italy/France 2023, 95 min.
Roman director Giovanni makes a political film in the Italian capital in 1956, the year of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Giovanni must rethink his course of action, especially since everything seems to be conspiring against him. His co-producer is on the verge of bankruptcy, the film industry is undergoing dynamic changes, and his private life is more than complicated. What decisions should Giovanni make to hope for a better tomorrow? Moretti included a wealth of self-ironic comments and quotes from his work in the film.
20:00 – SALA STENO
20 days w Mariupolu reΕΌ. Mstyslav Chernov, Ukraine 2023, 94 min.
An uncompromising document that cannot be forgotten: a shocking account documenting the destruction of the titular city, written by the only journalist who stayed there until the end. Chernov’s film, which risked his life to record Russian war crimes and the everyday life of the inhabitants of Mariupol, is not a journalistic record of events, but a piercing, passionate documentary indictment. And at the same time, it is a full-fledged film work, made with impressive formal discipline. Few films are watched with such suspense – from the first minutes to the finale, it reveals how the explosive material was removed from the occupied zone. Few creators show the merciless cruelty of war with such power. But Chernow and the team don’t do it to shock. Their intention is to leave a testimony – and shock the conscience of the world. Film for adults only.