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Cannes: Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona kickstarted the premiere of Maradona by Kusturica, quite literally on Tuesday in Cannes when he played ball during the photocall.

The premiere of this documentary on Maradona saw the guests ditch their designer wear for Argentine soccer shirts.

Directed by two-time Palme d'Or winner, Emir Kusturica, Maradona by Kusturica follows the rise and the fall of the charismatic but troubled sports hero.

The film touches on the moments that defined Maradona's career - from the 1986 World Cup quarter final to the infamous ''Hand of God.''

It also chronicles his drug addiction, something that Maradona chooses to boast about

“If I hadn't done all the bad things that I'd done in my life Pele would never have been able to come along as number 2 behind me, because he used to go to bed at 10 o'clock at night whereas I was still out on the tiles until 5 o'clock in the morning. That's the big different between us,” he said.

Dardenne in runnig too

Apart from Kusturica, the Dardenne brothers too boast of being two time Palme d'or winners. This year, the Belgian director duo is competing for the Palme D'or for their film Le Silence de Lorna (The Silence of Lorna) that premiered at Cannes on monday. The film revolves around a young Albanian woman, Lorna, whose in a marriage of convenience to a heroin junkie to obtain a Belgian passport. But she also agrees to marry a Russian mobster to get money to buy her own shop. What follows is Lorna's tussle with her conscience when she becomes part of the plot to kill her current husband.