Thursday, March 07
Ticket price 400 dinars
17:00
BONNARD: PIERRE & MARTHE / BONNARD, PIERRE ET MARTHE
France, Belgium, 2023, 123’
Director: Martin Provost
Cast: Vincent Macaigne, Cécile de France, André Marcon, Stacy Martin, Anouk Grinberg, Stanislas Merhar, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet…
When French painter Pierre Bonnard met Marthe de Méligny, he didn’t know this self-proclaimed aristocrat would become the cornerstone of his life and work. From this moment, she became more than just a muse for the “painter of happiness”, appearing in more than a third of his work. Together, they reached their artistic fulfillment thanks to a colourful love, different from the standards of their time, nurturing the great mystery around their relationship. Based on a true story.
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival
19:30
SHOSHANA
UK, Italy, 2023, 119’
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Harry Melling, Irina Starshenbaum, Douglas Booth, Aury Alby, Ian Hart, Tim Wallers…
Inspired by real events, Shoshana is a political thriller set in the 1930s in Tel Aviv. Thomas Wilkin is in love with the city and with Shoshana Borochov. Wilkin works with Geoffrey Morton in the anti terrorist squad of the British Palestine Police force, chasing the charismatic poet and underground leader Avraham Stern. Stern believes Israel can only be built through violence. His two main targets are Wilkin and Morton. Shoshana, like most of Tel Aviv, is modern and progressive. But as the violence builds everyone is forced to choose which side they will fight on.
Festivals: Palm Springs International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival…
22:00
LUBO
Italy, Switzerland, 2023, 175’
Director: Giorgio Diritti
Cast: Franz Rogowski, Christophe Sermet, Valentina Bellè, Noemi Besedes, Cecilia Steiner, Joel Basman, Filippo Giulini, Alessandro Zappella, Philippe Graber…
Lubo is a nomad, a busker who in 1939 is called up to the Swiss army to defend the country’s borders against of a German invasion. Shortly afterward he finds out that his wife has died in the attempt to stop the gendarmes from taking away their three small children. Lubo knows that he will never have peace until he gets his children back and gets justice for all outsiders like himself.
Festivals: Venecija, London, Čikago, Solun, Cirih / Venice Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival
