Man Ray made his first 2 minutes and 51 seconds long film Le Retour à la raison the day before its première at the dadaist event Le Cœur à barbe, which took place in Paris on 6 July 1923. To celebrate the hundredth anniversary, Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan, founding members of Sqürl, created an improvised musical accompaniment for this and three other works by the American artist. The restored films, combined into a 70-minute programme entitled Return to Reason, were premièred this year in the Cannes Classics section.
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Programme: Le retour à la raison (1923, 3'), Emak-bakia (1926, 18'), L’étoile de mer (1927/28, 15'), Les mystères du château du Dé (1929, 27').
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What's On
Hamnet Hamnet
Chloé Zhao
Thursday, 08. 01. 2026 / 15:00 / Main Hall
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) imagines how a tragedy from Shakespeare’s real life might have inspired the creation of his timeless masterpiece Hamlet. Starring the exceptional Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, the film is a moving story about love, loss, and the healing power of art.
Father Mother Sister Brother Father Mother Sister Brother
Jim Jarmusch
Thursday, 08. 01. 2026 / 17:40 / Main Hall
Three stories, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, about the relationship between parents and their adult children. Jim Jarmusch’s “anti-action film” received the Golden Lion in Venice.
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Wisdom of Happiness Wisdom of Happiness
Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis
Thursday, 08. 01. 2026 / 19:00 / Small Hall
With disarming wit, the Dalai Lama reflects on balancing millennia-old Tibetan Buddhist traditions with the contemporary values of our globalised society that now struggles to overcome violence and war while standing on the brink of environmental collapse.