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 Second Act Le deuxième acte
Quentin Dupieux
Friday, 26. 07. 2024 / 19:00 / Main Hall
Quentin Dupieux (Daaaaaalí!) returns behind the camera with a provocative, absurdist yet hilarious love letter to terrible films and bad actors facing their characters and their lines. This is farcical, surrealistic cinema that only he is capable of – with a message, if not many – and starring his most A-list cast yet. Opening film of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Miri Navasky, Maeve O’Boyle, Karen O’Connor
Friday, 26. 07. 2024 / 19:45 / Small Hall
An intimate documentary portrait in which the legendary singer and activist is unusually candid about her life on and off the stage.
Challengers Challengers
Luca Guadagnino
Friday, 26. 07. 2024 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle
Tashi Duncan is a former tennis prodigy turned coach. She is a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion on a losing streak, Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s redemption takes a surprising turn when he needs to face off against the washed-up Patrick – his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend.