Albert Serra, the enfant terrible of Catalonian film, adapted the film from his controversial debut theatre play staged at the Volksbühne theatre in Berlin. The film brought him the award in the Un Certain Regard category of the Cannes Film Festival and was also included in the Kings and Queens section of the Liffe festival.
Liberté Liberté
A forest at night. Three libertines, expelled from the puritan court of Louis XVI, run into the legendary German seducer and freethinker, the Duke of Walchen. Their mission is to export libertinage, a philosophy based on rejecting all moral restraints and authorities but above all, to find a safe place to indulge in their misguided games.
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The Bikeriders The Bikeriders
Jeff Nichols
Thursday, 25. 07. 2024 / 18:30 / Main Hall
Inspired by Danny Lyon’s 1968 photographic study of Chicago bikers, Jeff Nichols’ film is a portrait of the testosterone-fuelled, macho, gas-guzzling, leather-clad subculture of the American Midwest, but also a universal story about the search for identity and belonging.
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Miri Navasky, Maeve O’Boyle, Karen O’Connor
Thursday, 25. 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.
Caravaggio's Shadow L’ombra di Caravaggio
Michele Placido
Thursday, 25. 07. 2024 / 21:00 / Main Hall
Rebellious and restless, pious and licentious, independent and transgressive: Caravaggio as revealed by Michele Placido is a cursed artist of extraordinary talent; a rock star far ahead of his time; a rebel without a cause who must face the consequences of a frivolous life.