Libertarias
Thursday, March 14th at 8:30pm at Social Center Rog (Trubarjeva 72, Ljubljana) This week we continue with another film on the Spanish civil war, this time from the perspective of the women anarchist fighters. "At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by (...)
Land and Freedom
Thursday, February 28h at 8:30pm at Social Center Rog (Trubarjeva 72, Ljubljana) Land and Freedom, a Ken Loach film, follows a young revolutionary from Liverpool into the civil war in Spain. As the resistance against fascism breaks down into sectarian splits, betrails and infighting become the norm. This is a historical drama that examins the (...)
The Battle Of Algiers
Thursday, February 14h at 8:30pm at Social Center Rog (Trubarjeva 72, Ljubljana) The Battle Of Algiers follows the narrative of the insurgency to liberate Algeria from French colonial rule. Seen from the French and Algerian perspective and using real footage of the struggle, the film explores the complexities of this uprising and the bloody repression (...)
Do the Right Thing
For the final Tutti Frutti of 2012, join us for Spike Lee’s landmark film Do The Right Thing. The camera follows the life of community members of one block in Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn) on the hottest day of the year. As the day gets hotter the community becomes more and more tense, bringing all the anger, racism and despair to a boiling point. The (...)
The Navigators
Wednesday, November 21st at 8:30pm at Social Center Rog (Trubarjeva 72, Ljubljana) Ken Loach’s film The Navigators (2001) takes place in South Yorkshire. A small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the trusty British Rail sign is replaced by one reading East Midland (...)
Good Night, and Good Luck
Wednesday, November 7th at 9:00pm at Social Center Rog (Trubarjeva 72, Ljubljana) In the early 1950’s, the "threat" of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow and his producer Fred W. Friendly decided to take a stand and (...)
Network
Network is a 1976 film about the creation of news through the exploitation and manipulation of reality in a cynical game of chasing the highest possible ratings. When news anchor Howard Beal gets fired for low ratings, he begins to speak "the truth" on air. His off the cuff rants give the network incredible ratings and they immediately seek ways to (...)
Wag the Dog
Tutti Frutti Cinema is back at SC Rog! So please join us at 20.30 tomorrow evening for a screening of Barry Levinson’s 1997 film Wag the Dog . The film stars Robert De Nero, Anne Hecht and Dustin Hoffman. Wag the Dog takes a humorous, if somewhat cynical, look at the work of a spin doctor in manipulating the media and public opinion during the (...)
Battle In Seattle
This week we move Tutti Frutti Cinema to Tuesday night in view of the general strike called on Wednesday. Join us at 21.00 for a screening of the 2007 film about the WTO protest in Seattle and stay after for a discussion on the questions being opened through the strike, the April 19 (#19A) demonstration and beyond! The film depicts the historic protest (...)
Billy Elliot
This weeks film is set to the back drop of the miner struggles in northern England after the Thatcher regime went to war on unions in the 1980s. Young Billy is trying to come to terms with the economic depression tearing his family apart, imposed gender norms and the desire he feels for ballet dancing. Tutti Frutti is more than just a cinema! With the (...)
