The nine-day CineFest will once again offer film lovers a stronger program than ever before. On the opening day, the official program will include the opening film of the Cannes Film Festival (Jeanne du Barry), the Golden Bear winner of the Berlinale (On the Adamant) and the Grand Prize winner of the Sarajevo Film Festival (“Blackbird, Blackbird, Blackberry”).

The opening film of CineFest comes to Miskolc straight from the 2023 Cannes Film Festival: Jeann Du Barry, screened in the Open Eye section, is Johnny Depp’s big return and his first European film in a long time. Jeanne Vaubernier, a working-class woman (played by Maïwenn, the film’s director), is determined to rise up the social ladder and use her charms to break out of her miserable situation. Her lover, the Count du Barry, who has become rich thanks to Jeanne’s amorous intrigues, wishes to introduce her to the King and arranges the meeting through the influential Duke Richelieu. The meeting far exceeds his expectations: a scandalous love between Louis XV (Depp) and Jeanne is born at first sight.

The two screenings (the first of which is the opening night of the festival) are sold out.

The surprise winner of the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival was On the Adamant, a film about patients and carers in a psychiatric center in Paris, which will be screened at CineFest in the CineDocs program. The ship floating on the Seine welcomes adults with mental disorders and offers care to help them recover or improve their condition. The dedicated caregivers do their best to resist the decline and dehumanization of the psychiatry profession. French director Nicolas Philibert’s film is a unique journey: human, sensitive and intimate.

Tickets for the screening are available for 1.000 HUF and are best purchased in advance.

From the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight programme, Blackbird, Blackbird, Blackberry is a romantic drama with an artistic sensibility that draws on the rich tradition of Georgian cinema. CineFest’s first competition film touches on pervasive themes of emancipation and the right to defy social norms with unusual lightness and humorous detachment.

Tickets for the screening are available for 1.000 HUF and should be purchased in advance.