Filmzuckerl – A Bitter Feast Wednesday, November 4, 8:30 PM (OV) Thursday, November 5, 6:15 PM (OV) A Filmzuckerl screening at Filmbühne Waidhofen. Pedro Almodóvar | ES 2026 | 111 min | OV With: Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez Gijón, Victoria Luengo, Patrick Criado, Milena Smit, Quim Gutiérrez, Rossy de Palma, Carmen Machi Two timelines and perspectives interweave in a complex play between reality and fiction: Successful advertising director Elsa (Bárbara Lennie) throws herself into her work after her mother's death without allowing herself time to grieve. Only after a panic attack does she permit herself a break and travels to Lanzarote. She is accompanied by her friend Patricia, who has been repeatedly cheated on by her husband and refuses to stay in Madrid during the long December holiday weekend. On the black volcanic island, the two women attempt to find distance: Elsa from her grief, Patricia from a relationship she cannot escape. In another era, successful screenwriter and director Raúl Rossetti (Leonardo Sbaraglia) works on a new project. For years he has been stuck in creative crisis – until he begins writing precisely the story we experience as Elsa's life. Reality, memory, and fiction start to merge, ultimately raising the question: Who truly owns the stories an artist tells? With A BITTER FEAST, Spanish master director Pedro Almodóvar returns to many of his great themes: love and loss, desire and loneliness, strong female characters,
