His films shock, provoke, captivate the viewer to the screen, and leave a long aftertaste. They divide critics and audiences, evoking many conflicting emotions. Now, the residents of St. Petersburg have the opportunity to see the works of the most famous and awarded Austrian director on the big screen. Haneke's films are not so much stories as experiments on viewer perception. His characters live in a world where behind politeness and external calmness always lurks violence, where the attempt to understand another inevitably turns into anxiety. He does not offer consolation; on the contrary, he destroys the usual patterns of empathy, forcing us to see the fragility of human connections. The retrospective will open with Haneke's most controversial film 'The Piano Teacher', based on the novel by Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek. The film about the growing madness and hidden desire for sexual perversions of a professor at the Vienna Conservatory has won awards at all prestigious film festivals. As well as the incredible actress Isabelle Huppert, who played the lead role. Audiences will also see 'Happy End', a late work by Haneke. At the center is a family from Calais, living in luxury and oblivious to the tragedy unfolding outside the walls of their home. Aging Jean-Louis Trintignant returns to a role that references his character from 'Amour', creating an image of a man who has lost his sense of life. Haneke observes them with the same ruthless distance as always: his camera seems to capture not events, but symptoms of a society poisoned by indifference. The retrospective will conclude with the film 'Code Unknown', which brought Haneke international recognition and marked his transition to a mature period. The story unfolds in Paris and consists of fragments - random encounters of people unable to understand each other. In the role of actress Anna is Juliette Binoche, whose face becomes a reflection of all human vulnerability that Haneke knows how to film with surgical coldness. The retrospective at 'Aurora' is a rare opportunity to see several key works of Michael Haneke on the big screen.