Cinemarkt
Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2022 / Exploring Realities–Animated Documentaries / Fr 11.3.2022, 7pm
Exploring Realities – Animated Documentaries
These animating documentaries restore truth to that which has been redacted, it breathes life into archival material. Through the creative treatment of actuality, the filmmakers materialise tricky realities that are hard to see yet need to be known. In parts autobiographical, informational and existential, the films use a diverse cross-section of techniques to create an aesthetic space for authentic confession. Animation is more than a tool, it’s a weapon enabling us to see what we are neither able to escape nor encounter.
Recommended age 16+
The programme consists of 9 films with a total duration of 81 minutes.
LLUEVE | IT RAINS Carolina Corral & Magali Rocha, MX 2021, 11’21
Oliver Wenceslao Navarrete Hernández was kidnapped and killed in 2013. The state attorney general’s office requested to keep his body for their investigation, then buried him in a mass grave without the family’s knowledge or consent. His mother is determined to unearth the truth.
آبان | BLOODY JACKBOOTS Leila Ahang, IR 2021, 1’15
In 2019, the Bloody November protests in Iran ushered in a total internet and news media blackout. Over 1,500 people died. The film’s form was inspired by Iran’s shape on a map, which the directress interprets as a crouching cat, and the ruling regime in military uniform. It documents what the government didn’t want the world to know, to honour the memory of those who died.
VESTIDA DE VERDE Bibiana Rojas, CO 2021, 7’21
Vestida de Verde is part of My Story: The Children Who Fought War in Colombia, a series of 24 short animations, which recount the horrors of forced recruitment and the participation of children and teenagers in more than five decades of conflict. Many of them were taken from their schools by the guerrillas. This is the story of one of them. She tells about the days in the camps and how the experience only gives her a feeling of hatred and revenge.
SHADOW OF PARADISE Sahar al-Sawaf, IQ/US 2020, 7’19
Sahar al-Sawaf was seeking asylum from Saddam Hussein’s regime, arriving in America just before Operation Desert Storm. This became one of the most intense air raids in military history. Shadow of Paradise is a memento mori that captures the directress’s obscured, fading memories: photographs and hand-painted 35mm film depict her family who is alive, dead, or missing in Iraq.
KUSH MYTET KAPET PËR SHKUME | THOSE WHO DROWN CLING TO FOAM Urtina Hoxha, XK 2020, 4’21
The film illustrates the devastating personal account of a family forced to flee their home during the 1999 NATO bombings of Kosovo. The journey to a safe haven becomes a collective story of survival.
FAUSSES REPOSES Maureau Dauphine & Basch Margaux, FR 2021, 7‘40
Michou applied for asylum five years ago. She is still waiting for the outcome of her application. As her future remains in limbo, she closes the blinds and tries to escape the world, finding solace sitting in silence and darkness. In the dark, her memories, her dreams and her anguish re-surface.
CHEZ NOUS Oh Eun Lee, FR/KR 2020, 11‘35
Oh Eun Lee documents natality and mortality across three generations. Her mother’s health deteriorates in parallel with the growth of her infant son. While Parkinson's disease makes her mother forget how to walk, her son takes his first steps.
MILÝ TATI | LOVE, DAD Diana Cam Van Nguyen, CZ 2021, 12’46
This film is not available in DE and FR
The directress tries to find a way back to her father through this film. She rediscovers the letters he wrote to her from prison: The affection inscribed there seemed to dissipate once he returned home. 15 years later she replies. Writing down what could not be said: Would everything be okay if I had been born a boy?
KIRSCHKNOCHEN | CHERRY BONE Evgenia Gostrer, DE 2021, 17’35
A Russian-Jewish family immigrated to Germany in the mid-1990s. The directress starts a conversation about it with her parents and recalls her own version of past events. The film probes the boundaries of documentary formats: where one person’s memory ends and another one’s fiction begins.
In Kooperation mit Tricky Women/Tricky Realities: https://online.trickywomen.at/p/22_Pro_Info_Ani
Cinemarkt ist eine Veranstaltung der Brunnenpassage in Kooperation mit Go! Go! Gorilla.
The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker Urtina Hoxha.