BLAZING HEAT – Kaleidoskop

LINGUI

November 9, 2022/in /by jdtgf_kaleidoskop

Amina lives on the outskirts of N’Djamena with her 15-year-old daughter Maria and upcycles old truck tyres into fire bowls to make a living. When Maria gets pregnant and decides to have an abortion, Amina is faced with the harsh reality of strict laws and religious condemnation. She does everything in her power to help her daughter escape the cycle of sexualised violence she has been a victim of herself and, ultimately, to take revenge and challenge the structural mechanisms of patriarchal domination. LINGUI is a powerful plea for action and resilience in the face of the most adverse circumstances. Mother and daughter experience social cohesion and kinship through Lingui, the sacred bond of solidarity formed by generations of women in a society shaped by men. (dp)

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Due to a storm warning, the screening of LINGUI in July at Kaleidoskop – Film und Freiluft am Karlsplatz 2022 leider nicht stattfinden. unfortunately could not take place. All the more we are happy to celebrate the Vienna premiere of the film now as a winter matinee at Filmcasino (Margaretenstr. 78, 1050 Wien).

Free entry!
Reserve your seat: filmcasino.at/film/lingui/

Accessibility
• Barrier-free access
• Induction loop for CI and hearing aid users
• Introduction with Austrian Sign Language interpretation
• Film: Arabic/French with English and German subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

A heartfelt thank you to Bezirksvorstehung & Kulturkommission Margareten and the team of Filmcasino for their support!

FREDA

June 9, 2022/in /by jdtgf_kaleidoskop

Inspired by her own experience, Gessica Généus’s debut feature follows the lives of a family amid the vibrant everyday life of Port-au-Prince. FREDA portrays the relationship of the eponymous protagonist with her older sister Esther and their single mother Jeannette: three women with very different attitudes towards, and expectations of, life. With growing economic pressure, patriarchal social structures and political instability, staying in the country presents more challenges every day. Despite the dire situation, Freda – whose name refers to the Vodou goddess of love and abundance – is determined to stay and build a life for herself in Haiti. Documentary footage of the street protests in Port-au-Prince against the embezzlement of PetroCaribe funds in 2018 conveys a visceral sense of the protests against the turmoil the country is facing. (dp)

KRAI

June 9, 2022/in /by jdtgf_kaleidoskop

Planning to shoot a »historical film«, Russian-born director Aleksey Lapin and his crew travel from Vienna to Yutanovka, a small village near the Ukrainian border where he used to stay with his relatives every summer. Amid the rural reality of local festivals, church attendance and daily routines, a cinematic interaction between the crew and the villagers begins. A casting is held and down by the river two protagonists muse about cinema and the process of filmmaking itself. The Russian word krai means edge or border. Shot in black and white, both timeless and timely, the film also blurs the border between fiction and documentary with subtle irony and a fond interest in the whimsical. From staged scenes and everyday observations emerges an image of reality that resists straightforward categorisation. And above it all stands one vision: »Cinema has to bring together different worlds and different people and, ultimately, remind us that we are all part of one humanity.« (lm)

LINGUI

June 4, 2022/in /by jdtgf_kaleidoskop

Amina lives on the outskirts of N’Djamena with her 15-year-old daughter Maria and upcycles old truck tyres into fire bowls to make a living. When Maria gets pregnant and decides to have an abortion, Amina is faced with the harsh reality of strict laws and religious condemnation. She does everything in her power to help her daughter escape the cycle of sexualised violence she has been a victim of herself and, ultimately, to take revenge and challenge the structural mechanisms of patriarchal domination. LINGUI is a powerful plea for action and resilience in the face of the most adverse circumstances. Mother and daughter experience social cohesion and kinship through Lingui, the sacred bond of solidarity formed by generations of women in a society shaped by men. (dp)

ATLANTIQUE

June 9, 2022/in /by jdtgf_kaleidoskop

Dakar, between the skeletons of futuristic luxury buildings and the reality of construction workers looking for jobs. Ada is to marry the wealthy Omar, but she is haunted by her lover Souleiman, an unpaid construction worker who lost his life at sea when crossing the Atlantic together with other economic refugees. Captivating and hypnotic, Mati Diop’s film tells the stories of the women who stayed: the mothers, sisters, and lovers of those who were looking for work and cheated of their wages and whose attempts at migration were thwarted by the disastrous asymmetry of global migration policy. They have not departed this world peacefully and their ghosts haunt the living. In an act of rebellion, the grieving women stand up against this massive injustice and demand that those whose hunger for power is responsible for the growing social injustice be held accountable. (dp)

MARE

June 15, 2021/in /by jdtgf_kaleidoskop

Airplanes are taking off into the bright blue sky every day, but Mare remains on the ground. She has never been on a plane in her life despite living right next to Dubrovnik airport with her husband and three children. Mare’s partner Đuro – her youth love – works at the airport, she herself is a dedicated mother. One day Piotr appears in the neighbourhood and kindles a previously unknown desire for independence in her. In their third collaboration, filmmaker Andrea Štaka and actress Marija Škaričić paint a lively yet intimate portrait of a woman who reclaims a degree of freedom in a life largely determined by pragmatism and necessities.

VICTORIA

June 14, 2021/in /by jdtgf_kaleidoskop

California City, a 1950s planned city in the southern Californian desert, was originally designed to rival Los Angeles. Today, the only reminders of the unfinished megacity are streets outlined in the sand, fading signs and a few settlements. In this abstract setting we meet Lashay who has left his turbulent L.A. past behind to try and make a new start with his family here. Over the course of two years we follow him on his quest as he tries to find his bearings in this sprawling planned city in the middle of the desert. Juxtaposing virtual views of urban landscapes, cellphone videos and documentary images, VICTORIA sets hopeful realities against failed urban visions in a divided country and offers insights into the lives of the few residents of this eerily empty town.

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