The Brazilian candidate for the Academy Awards nomination has received the main award in the Un Certain Regard category at the last Cannes Film Festival.
The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão A vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmao
Rio de Janeiro in 1950. Sisters Eurídice and Guida live with their conservative parents and dream about a different life. Eurídice dreams of becoming a piano player and Guida seeks her great love. When Guida gets pregnant, their infuriated father breaks contacts between the two sisters. So commences the long separation of the two women who never lose hope to be reunited one day.
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All We Imagine as Light All We Imagine as Light
Payal Kapadia
Wednesday, 05. 02. 2025 / 13:00 / Main Hall
In the bustling chaos of Mumbai, the lives of three women from different generations intertwine. The debut feature by Payal Kapadia, winner of the Jury Grand Prize at Cannes, is the first Indian film in thirty years to compete in the festival’s main competition.
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The Apprentice The Apprentice
Ali Abbasi
Wednesday, 05. 02. 2025 / 15:30 / Main Hall
The Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi dramatises Trump’s rise to power through a Faustian pact with influential right-wing lawyer Roy Cohn. As the director puts it: “A success story that could only happen in America.”