Dreams, turmoil, utopias – DREAMS POSTPONED comprises five films in which filmmakers
present their unique approach to reflecting fears, longings, claims, and wishes they have of a
solidary society and of community. What if dreams turn into real nightmares? Nightmares such as
threats to civil rights and liberty, state sanctioned violence, border regimes, nationalism, and
discrimination? The films tell poetically, critically, and politically of fates, injustices, and
hopes of a better future. Both, the films and our history depict just how fragile our world can
be in face of uncertainty and change. Or as Ingeborg Bachmann cautions: "History teaches
constantly, but it lacks students."
THE ORANGE TAPE is an eight-minute 16-mm-film shot in Venice at different locations and different times of a day. The camera was operated manually, following an instinctive and playful approach – it seems to dance, as if in search of something, trying to capture images to write a poem with them. The Bolex camera serves as the tool to inscribe traces of the space into the filmstrip. The film is a tribute to the orange light, a gesture to the atmosphere of the city – a cinematic poem.… >>>
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It's New Year's Eve in Tijuana, Mexico. Wood and Colonel are busy making Soup Joumou to celebrate Haitian Independence Day with their friends at the "Trap House". As their cooking progresses, memories of the perilous journey that brought them to the US/Mexico border two years ago resurface. From Haiti to Brazil and through nine other South and Central-American countries, here they are, sandwiched between their dream of a musical career in the US and a US president with a racist and offensive attitude towards Haitians.… >>>
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Nominated:
Goldener Key
Osman Kavala, a leading figure in Turkey’s civil society, has been in custody in the largest high-security prison in Europe in Silivri since November 1, 2017. LETTERS FROM SILIVRI draws on letters of the philanthropist and public intellectual written in captivity to document a timeline of his imprisonment. Visually, the film shows the streets of a district in Istanbul called Esenyurt, a place affected heavily by its urban transformations. By separating voice and image, the film intends to create an echo chamber that allows the audience to listen more carefully to Kavalas letters, while at the same time place his words in context to civil society.… >>>
- Director: Adrian Figueroa
A THIN PLACE documents Summer Solstice at Glastonbury Tor in Somerset. For many, Glastonbury Tor is the spiritual and mythological heart of England, acting as both the geographical centerpiece to Arthurian legend and Christianity's arrival into Britain. Shot in 2019, a year in which national divides were embellished by further populist rhetoric surrounding the country's exit from the European Union, A THIN PLACE acts as an alternative catalyst to reflect on dialogues surrounding English nationalism, identity and romanticism.… >>>
- Director: Fergus Carmichael
Two sisters (who are not sisters), two pregnancies, a two-seater car, a beauty queen, a poodle. The election of a second fascist – this time in Brazil. A crime thriller without a crime, DEUX SOEURS QUI NE SONT PAS SOEURS unfolds like a dream. Shot on 16mm anamorphic and based on an original screenplay by Gertrude Stein, written in 1929 as European fascism was gaining momentum, the film is set in contemporary Paris in a moment of comparable social and political unrest. Casting an intimate network of the director’s friends and influences as its principal actors, from renowned New York school poet Alice Notley to educator Diocouda Diaoune and playing on Stein’s interest in autobiography and repetition, the film is simultaneously an abstract thriller and a collective portrait… >>>
- Director: Beatrice Gibson
