Agenda

Un été à la Garoupe and Searching for Gerda Taro

Double screening of films within the Jewish Cinema cycle in Girona

Thursday, October 21,

Cinema Truffaut

Un été à la Garoupe

France, 2020. 52 min
Director: François Lévy-Kuentz
OVS

La Garoupe, a beach in Antibes, in 1937. For one summer, the painter and photographer Man Ray films his friends Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, Paul Eluard and his wife Nusch, as well as Lee Miller. During these few weeks, love, friendship, poetry, photography and painting are still mixed in the carefree and the creativity specific to the artistic movements of the interwar period.

Searching for Gerda Taro

France, 2021. 52 min
Director: Camille Ménager
OVS

Spain, July 1936. As the country flares up, Gerda Taro and her partner Robert Capa rush to fight alongside the Republicans to document and photograph the battle against Franco’s troops. Their goal is to shake and awaken the sleeping consciousness of an indecisive Europe. Out of this passion, Gerda Taro did not come out alive, dying on the eve of her 27th birthday. Thanks to recent uncovering of her work, this documentary shines a new light on her role as war photographer and artist. Through her portrait we dive into the too-often forgotten place of women in social and historical representation of the war effort.

Free entry with places limited to the capacity of the room.

Organized by: Patronat Call de Girona and Cinema Truffaut. Collaboration: Barcelona Jewish Film Festival