Acropolis Cinema presents **FIRE + WATER + POWER**: a triple bill of new and curated work by Hong Sangsoo, Pedro Costa and Jean-Luc Godard.

Featuring:

- *In Water* (Dir. Hong Sangsoo, 2023)
- *The Daughters of Fire* (Pedro Costa, 2023)
- *The Power of Speech* (Jean-Luc Godard, 1988)

Co-presented by MUBI!

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In this exclusive triple bill, the new feature by South Korean maverick Hong Sangsoo will proceed the latest work by Portuguese master Pedro Costa and a little-seen masterpiece by Jean-Luc Godard, chosen carte blanche by Costa to screen alongside his short.

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*In Water* (Dir. Hong Sangsoo, 2023, 61 min)

A trio of friends venture to the rocky shores of a large island to shoot a film together. The director, Seongmo (Shin Seokho), recently gave up acting and has decided to make a film with his own money. His former classmate, Sangguk (Ha Seongguk), will operate the camera and Namhee (Kim Seungyun) will act in it. The only problem: Seongmo hasn’t decided what to make.

Hong's most overtly experimental work to date, *In Water* reveals the director at the height of his allusory powers. The story is simple: three friends set out to make a film, and then they do it. But with bold formal choices and his signature impulse toward the uncanny, Hong evokes infinite mysteries and hints at whole worlds lurking below the surface of everyday reality.

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*The Daughters of Fire* (Pedro Costa, 2023, 9 min)

The story of three young Cape Verdean sisters upon their arrival at a foreign European port, in an attempt to escape another devastating eruption of the Fogo volcano. In this unknown country, they roam, hand in hand, evoking their secret fears through music and singing.

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*The Power of Speech* (Jean-Luc Godard, 1988, 25 min)

In the middle of the night a young man calls a young woman at the other side of the world. There are too many contrasts: when night falls in his world, she is just waking up. Their voices, their reproaches, fly through the universe and are flung back to earth by a satellite. In quickly changing images accompanied by the music of Bach and Cohen, the earthly, the banal is confronted with the heavenly, the things we don't want to understand with the things we cannot understand. With texts by Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Baudelaire. Presented digitally, from a file personally provided to Pedro Costa by Jean-Luc Godard.

TRT: 95 min

This is an 18+ event

Presented by MUBI and Acropolis Cinema

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