TREŠNJA CINEMA 2025
For the 10th year in a row, we are turning the Trešnjevka market into your favorite open-air neighborhood cinema, and we are again organizing screenings at Munjarski put and at the Mladost pool. This year, we are opening the Trešnja Cinema program at the Trešnjevka market cinema, and then moving to Munjarski put (former Samoborček train route), as part of the Cinema on Rails, and to the Mladost outdoor pool – the Mladost Cinema. Join us on June 27, and July 4, and July 11!
TREŠNJEVKA MARKET CINEMA
Friday, June 27, 2025, at 9.30 PM
Trešnjevka Market
Teletext, dir. By Nela Gluhak, 2023, experimental, 3’
Czech Dream / Ceský sen, dir. By Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda, 2004, documentary, 90'
On the first movie night, at the Trešnjevka market, we address food consumption and question how our food and consumer habits structure our society.
The provocative documentary “Czech Dream” by Filip Remunda and Vít Klusák, declared as "one of the best films of the decade" by Michael Moore, documents the largest marketing hoax and consumerist hysteria that hit the post-transition Czech Republic. Filip Remunda and Vit Klusak decided to use all the psychological and manipulative power of consumerism and to create a campaign for a supermarket that does not exist. "Czech Dream" provides a tragicomic insight into the sudden transformation of the communist system into a capitalist one, as well as the subsequent penetration of consumer mentality into all pores of society. This controversial project alarmed media and citizens at the time, becoming a hot topic in the Czech Parliament.
In the same block, we will show the lively animated diversion "Teletext". The director Nela Gluhak converts simple graphic symbols into colorful arrows of resistance and uses the well-tried détournement tactic in the field of rudimentary Internet precursor to go beyond the limits of the narrow framework, transforming the screen into a space of new meanings and a battlefield in the fight against banalization of the mind.
CINEMA ON RAILS
Friday, July 4, 2025, at 9 PM
Munjarski put, next to the Hockey Club Centre
Orange Peel / Kora pomorandže, dir. By Isidora Vulić, 2021, animated, 4'
Mystery Train, dir. By Jim Jarmusch, 1989, feature, 110'
On the second movie night, at Munjarski put, we recall the Samoborček train route, for which the park is famous, with two film reminders of the intertwined history of railways and film, which simulated a view from the rushing locomotive since the Lumière brothers.
Young and cool Japanese tourists, an exhausted Italian widow, and a revolted British immigrant gravitate towards Memphis, a city with a famous music past and the capital of the King of Rock & Roll Elvis Presley. Their pilgrimage begins at the local railway station and ends at the decrepit Arcadia Hotel, where American mythomania is settling accounts with the banal daily life in the city and disorienting experiences of the protagonists. Through a triptych of loosely linked stories of outsiders navigating the American culture, Jarmusch simultaneously pays a playful tribute to Memphis and deconstructs its mythology, while the eponymous Mistery Train overcomes its function as a means of transport by becoming a potent symbol of an evasive search for identity and meaning in a world that is, at the same time, worryingly close and soberingly distanced. In "Orange Peel" the young director peels layers of memories as if they were the citrus fruit, and animates her diary to depict her return by train from Spain and share with us a precious moment in time that will never come back – does she remember it, or has she already forgot it? Andalusian bard Federico Lorca becomes an intimate companion, while the rails are transformed into a two-way time lane between what had happened and what will happen. Both films demonstrate how the real meaning of our journeys evades us, until it becomes a formative but intangible remembrance.
MLADOST CINEMA
Friday, July 11, 2025, at 9 PM
Green area behind the Mladost outdoor pool
Down with the Fences, dir. by Dušan Makavejev, 1962, feature, 12'
Raise Ravens / Cría cuervos, dir. by Carlos Saura, 1976, feature, 107'
On the third evening, we are showing two films dedicated to the youth, in which children express non-conformism towards the adult world: the oneiric masterpiece "Raise Ravens" by the Aragonese filmmaker Carlos Saura, and the short feature "Down with the Fences" by the Yugoslav Cinema enfant terrible Dušan Makavejev.
In "Raise Ravens", on the other side of the mysterious world of adults, melancholic girl Ana and her sisters learn to cope with loss and death they perceive only as absence. The poignant ode to lost childhood is permeated with the anti-authoritarian impulse characteristic of Saura, fierce opponent of Franco’s dictatorship. The summer is in full swing, Franco is lying on his deathbed, the yearning ballad ‘Porque te vas’ is playing in the background, and little Ana is growing up before our eyes, anxiously keeping the secret of innocent cruelty and the cruel innocence of girlhood. "Down with the Fences" spreads the contagious spirit of revolutionary freedom with the author’s message: Give children the space to play. Remove fences, fenced yards, wires... Ironically, Makavejev’s appeal to demolish all obstacles to children’s free imagination and collectivism premiered internationally in Mannheim, just after the erecting of the Berlin Wall.
Film selector and text author: Dina Pokrajac
Design by: Nikola Križanac
Trešnja Cinema has been made possible in cooperation with the Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević City Local Boards Assembly, the City District Trešnjevka – North, and the City Board Assembly Trešnjevka – South, and financed through the Plan of Necessary Activities, Programs, and Projects for improving the quality of life of citizens in 2025, using the resources provided by the City Office for Culture and Civil Society of the City of Zagreb, and by the Croatian Audiovisual Center HAVC. Partner: Trešnjevka Cultural Center CEKATE. Support: The Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain. BLOK’s annual program for 2025 is supported by the Kultura Nova Foundation.
