LIFE AND MUSIC
MARIA
Director: Pablo Larraín
Italy, Germany, USA / 2024 / Colour / 123’ / English, Greek; Turkish subtitles
Screenplay: Steven Knight
Cinematography: Ed Lachman
Editing: Sofia Subercaseaux
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Stephen Ashfield, Valeria Golino
Producer: Lorenzo Mieli, Annamaria Morelli, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín
Production Company: The Apartment, Komplizen Film, Fabula
World Rights: FilmNation Entertainment
Maria, an Oscar-nominated film for 2025, brings to the big screen the passionate and turbulent life of legendary opera singer Maria Callas, with a powerful performance by Angelina Jolie. The film delves deeply into Callas’s tumultuous relationship with the famous Greek businessman Aristotle Onassis and premiered to great acclaim at the Venice Film Festival. Continuing Pablo Larraín’s tradition of biographical cinema, the film vividly portrays Callas’s loneliness, passion, and love for the stage with captivating storytelling.
This film will be screened with a ticket fee at IstinyePark Renk Cinema in the 9:00 PM session. Information about ticket sales will be announced on our social media channels.
TRAILER
Pablo Larraín
Studied Audiovisual Communication at UNIACC University. He is a founding member of Fabula. In 2006 he made his debut film, Fuga. His second feature, Tony Manero, premiered in Cannes in 2008 and later won the KNF prize in Rotterdam. With his successive films Post Mortem and No, he completed his trilogy about Chile under the Pinochet regime, and moved in a different but equally successful direction in 2015 with El Club. In 2016 he released two biographical films: Neruda, about the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, and his English-language debut Jackie, about Jackie Kennedy Onassis. In 2019 he returned to Santiago, Chile, for Ema, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Larraín continued his investigation into the lives of women that marked the 20th century with the biographical films Spencer in 2021 and Maria in 2024.