Czech Photographer Josef Koudelka grew up behind the Iron Curtain and always wanted to know "what was on the other side". Forty years after capturing the iconic images of the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968, the legendary Magnum photographer arrives in Israel and Palestine. On first seeing the nine-meter-high wall built by Israel in the West Bank, Koudelka is deeply shaken and embarks on a four-year project in the region which will confront him once again with the harsh reality of violence and conflict. Director Gilad Baram, Koudelka's assistant at the time, follows him on his journey through the Holy Land from one enigmatic and visually spectacular location to another.

Koudelka Shooting Holy Land

The film tells the story of the intimate and unprecedented encounter between the photojournalists of the Magnum Agency and the world of cinema. The confrontation of two seemingly opposite worlds – fiction and reality. For 70 years their paths crossed: a family of photographers, amongst them the biggest names in photography, and a family of actors and filmmakers who helped write the history of cinema, from John Huston to Marilyn Monroe to Orson Welles, Kate Winslet and Sean Penn.

Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum

Chilean Magnum photographer Sergio Larraín, who developed a unique and enigmatic way of constructing images, became a photographic legend. He captured the edges of reality and ended up inhabiting them.

The Eternal Moment

Efsanevi Magnum fotoğrafçısı Josef Koudelka'nın geçmişine, anılarına, hayata bakışına, fotoğrafa dair düşüncelerine ve Akdeniz bölgesindeki antik kentlerin arkeolojik kalıntılarını konu alan son projesi “Ruins”deki duygusal yolculuğuna yakından bir bakış... Koudelka, Heraklitos'un ayak izinden "hiç kimse aynı nehirden tekrar geçemez" sözüyle, son 26 yılda defalarca fotoğrafladığı 200'ü aşkın Helen ve Roma antik kentini tekrar tekrar ziyaret ediyor. Akdeniz bölgesine yapılan bu destansı yolculuklarda Koudelka'nın hem sanatsal hem de felsefi “maksimum” arayışına odaklanırken, neşe, şefkat ve sessizlik anlarına tanık oluyoruz.