18:30
Maya Zinshtein’s documentary follows a season at Israeli football club Beitar Jerusalem, when the club’s Russian-Israeli owner signs two Muslim players from Chechnya. The move angers the fans, who bombard the players with abuse and even walk out when one of the scores a goal. The powerful film tackles issues identity, racism, peer pressure, and highlights the link between sports and politics.
Cinematographer Sergei Freedman will be at the screening and will answer questions from the audience after the film.
Venue: Cinémathèque, Luxembourg Centre
Chris Marker, Never Explain, Never Complain
A documentary by Jean-Marie Barbe, Arnaud Lambert explores the work of the cult French film maker, writer, photographer, essayist and traveler Chris Marker. Marker has always been a cult figure, but gained international recognition when Terry Gilliam used his short film “La jetée” as the inspiration for his classic sci-fi thriller “12 Monkeys”
The screening is followed by a “cinemix” by Christophe Hanesse
In French with English subtitles
Venue: Mudam, Luxembourg-Kirchberg
20:45
Luxembourg director Bady Minck’s experimental film uses stop-motion animation and CGI to explore 950 million years of development on Earth and 150,000 years of human migration and 15,000 years of human cartography. The film had its premier at the Sundance Festival earlier this year. One reviewer called it perhaps the strangest film at the festival, saying it “feels something like a "Magic School Bus" episode written by someone with a extremely short attention span.”
In English
Venue: Utopolis, Luxembourg-Kirchberg
21:30
A second chance to catch Raoul Peck’s essential-viewing documentary. The film maker uses the poetic words of civil rights activist James Baldwin to explore the history and social context of race relations in the United States. Voiced, almost unrecognisably, by Samuel L. Jackson, the cleverly edited and powerful film will entrance and enrage audiences in equal measure.
In English
Venue: Utopia, Luxembourg-Limpertsberg
Second screening for Rusudan Glurjidze’s beautifully haunting film is set in the aftermath of the civil war in Georgia in the early 1990s. A young family is given a house whose previous owners fled the conflict. Their new neighbour observes them through the scope of her rifle…For both parties the conflict has left deep scars. The Hollywood Reporter gave a positive review of the film which it described as “a ghost story without any ghosts”.
In Georgian and Russian with English subtitles
Venue: Utopia, Luxembourg-Limpertsberg