Hypnotic Cinema: Memoria

Under the title Focus: Disorder, we explore the borderland between order and chaos, both in our societies and in ourselves. Thus, we now present The Hypnotic Cinema, a unique experiment encompassing three film screenings, challenging you, as an audience member, to release control of your consciousness. By first taking part in a mass hypnosis, carried out by a hypnotist on location, you will be part of a completely unique film experience. If you dare to let go of control…

Tilda Swinton’s British botanist hears a mysterious bang in Golden Palm-winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s first foreign adventure.

With acclaimed films like Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (GFF, 2011) and Cemetery Splendour (GFF, 2016), Thai Apichatpong Weerasethakul has created a completely one-of-a-kind film universe, with a unique style that is realistic, magical, and tranquilly hypnotic. His new masterpiece Memoria was this past summer awarded the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Tilda Swinton plays the orchid enthusiast Jessica who visits her sister in Bogotá. One early morning she is woken up by an enormously loud bang, but it turns out that she is the only one who heard the noise. On the quest to understand the sound, Jessica meets among others an archaeologist and a sound technician, before Memoria offers this year’s most spectacularly surprising film conclusion.