Using a stunning array of archival photographs and footage, and interviews with people from Isabella Rossellini to the last interview with Henri Cartier Bresson, Anne Makepeace's landmark documentary profiles the complex and controversial life of the great war photographer, from his leftwing radicalism in 1930s Budapest to his death in 1954 as the first American war correspondent to die in Vietnam.
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig Daneh Anjeer Moghadas
Mohammad Rasoulof
Thursday, 13. 03. 2025 / 16:00 / Main Hall
Dahomey Dahomey
Mati Diop
Thursday, 13. 03. 2025 / 17:15 / 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.
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Johan Grimonprez
Thursday, 13. 03. 2025 / 19:30 / Main Hall
United Nations, 1961: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez explores a moment when jazz, colonialism, and espionage collided.