From La Femme Nikita and The Professional to The Fifth Element, writer/director Luc Besson has created some of the toughest female action heroes in film history. Now, Besson directs Scarlett Johansson in Lucy, an action-packed thriller that tracks a woman accidentally caught up in a dark deal who turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior. (English spoken)
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No Other Land No Other Land
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Wednesday, 12. 03. 2025 / 17:30 / Main Hall
Maria Maria
Pablo Larraín
Wednesday, 12. 03. 2025 / 19:45 / Main Hall
Chilean director Pablo Larraín, known for Jackie and Spencer, returns with the third instalment of his unofficial trilogy about iconic, tragic women of the 20th century. The film imagines the last week in the life of the legendary opera diva Maria Callas as she struggles with the increasingly blurred lines between the celebrated ‘La Callas’ and the vulnerable, fragile Maria.
Dahomey Dahomey
Mati Diop
Wednesday, 12. 03. 2025 / 20:15 / Small Hall
In her beguiling work of speculative documentary the young French-Senegalese filmmaker charts the repatriation of stolen artefacts to Benin, interrogating colonial legacies, ancestry and the weight of history.