Special Event
Exceptional cinema events that offer a unique and profound perspective on the complexities of human experience.

Depth Two
director: Ognjen Glavonić
original title: Dubina Dva
country: Serbia, France
year: 2016
running time: 80 min.

Diamond Sutra
The third walking film, commissioned by the Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition, transforms both the human figure and kitchen appliances into an art installation. The sound of rice cooking, which accompanies the footsteps of a monk in a red hood, is a ghostly reminiscence of the breath of the director's dying mother, bringing together the physicality of the living and the dead.
director: Tsai Ming-liang
original title: 金剛經
country: Taiwan
year: 2012
running time: 20 min.

Excursion
A teenager named Imam lives in Sarajevo and attends ninth grade. In an effort to gain attention and recognition from her classmates, she one day claims that she had sex with an older boy named Damir. In reality, he rejected her. The lie quickly spreads and takes on a life of its own. The heroine gains new friends, but loses control of her own identity. Bosnian director Una Gunjak’s directorial debut focuses in parallel on parents and teachers whose approach to freedom and security was shaped by the Bosnian war. The film, which faithfully depicts the emotional vulnerability of both children and adults, received a special jury mention at the Locarno Film Festival. “As a woman in her mid-thirties untangling the knots of her sexual upbringing, as a Bosnian woman observing the youth of today, and lastly, as a feminist – I felt an urge and an obligation to make this film.” — Una Gunjak (Source)
director: Una Gunjak
original title: Ekskurzija
country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Norway, Croatia, Serbia, Qatar
year: 2023
running time: 93 min.

Jacob
After second world war the people from Ruthenia's Carpathian villages were promised a better life in Bohemia. Once settled down they felt like strangers at the new places, so memories and tales became very important reminding them of their old homes. One of these tales is about Jakub, a man who knew the bible by heart. This film follows his trace portraying the almost forgotten loss of those people who nowadays still feel without a home.
director: Jana Ševčíková
original title: Jakub
country: Czechoslovakia
year: 1992
running time: 65 min.

No Form
In 2011, the Taiwanese artist presented his play Only You, in which the character of the medieval Buddhist monk Xuanzang slowly walks across the stage for half an hour. This scene inspired him to shoot short films that contrast the slowness of walking with the speed of the surrounding events. The first of these, No Form, was shot on the streets of Taipei and revels in the duality of time and space, humorously punctuated by Nina Simone's song Feeling Good.
director: Tsai Ming-liang
original title: 無色
country: Taiwan
year: 2012
running time: 20 min.

No No Sleep
The seventh walking film was commissioned by the Hong Kong International Film Festival. It follows a chance encounter between a monk in red robes, played by Lee Kang-sheng, and the well-known Japanese actor Masanobu Ando in a public bathhouse and capsule hotel. This intimate double portrait explores the inner coexistence and transience of night-time Tokyo and the restless human mind.
director: Tsai Ming-liang
original title: 無無眠
country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
year: 2015
running time: 35 min.

Piemule
The documentary follows an ethnographic portrait of a Czech minority that settled in Romania near Timisoara in 1822. The film captures the life of this isolated community throughout the four seasons. It shows how this enclave preserved its language, identity, and cultural heritage under the difficult conditions of Nicolae Ceaușescu rule. A powerful ethnographic documentary essay that carries moral depth and offers a unique perspective on the preservation of minority identity in difficult conditions.
director: Jana Ševčíková
original title: Piemule
country: Czechoslovakia
year: 1983
running time: 43 min.

Walker Jihlava
Walker Jihlava (working title) is the latest installment in Tsai Ming-liang’s acclaimed Walker series, created in collaboration with Studio FAMU. This film will be shot and completed in just 10 days in Jihlava, immediately before and during this year's edition of the film festival. The Walker series centers around a walking monk and the contrast of extremely slow movement and hectic paces of cities and towns.
director: Tsai Ming-liang
original title: Walker Jihlava
country: Taiwan, Czech Republic
year: 2025
running time: 30 min.

Walking on Water
The fifth walking film was created as part of the film anthology Letters from the South, compiled by Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui. In it, Tsai Ming-liang returns to his native Kuching by way of a monk in a red hood. The walls of the house where he grew up are saturated with a familiar past and the foreign lives of its present inhabitants.
director: Tsai Ming-liang
original title: 行在水上
country: Taiwan
year: 2013
running time: 29 min.