It is heavenly in “Eight Postcards from Utopia”, although the film is charges wild capitalism.
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Aliens end up in the middle of a plate building settlement in Estonia, which as expected rather confused the everyday life of the residents. They do not necessarily find the invasion from space as threatening, but see them pragmatically as an opportunity to escape the dreary, often hard everyday life. Every change is also hope for a better future. “The Black Hole« is the name of the feminist science fiction comedy by director Moonika Siimets. However, the focus is less on the aliens: “It is a science fiction film, but for me he is about people and their everyday struggles and longings,” said the director in an interview with Cineeuropa. The strip that can be seen at this year’s “Goeast” film festival Siimets shows great feel for the beauty of the absurd.
Absurd can also be found in »Eight Postcards from Utopia«, the new film by the celebrated Romanian director Radu Jude, which he compiled together with the philosopher Christian Ferencz-Flatz. The film consists of found footage, i.e. foreign material, for example from archives.
Art is the selection and collage. Among other things, the makers used advertising films from the 1990s, when capitalism was rapidly moving into Romania according to the case of the Socialist Republic under dictator Ceaușescu. The change in a society and their turn to consumer culture is reflected in the over -the -top, often strangely philosophically charged film. Radu Jude is known for his experimental, surprising and provocative work with which he feels on the tooth for Romanian society. It is not uncommon for fascism to be an issue, but he has already made a film about the American pop artist Andy Warhol.
Visually impressive is the film »Windless«, which was completely made in the square format The Bulgarian director Pavel G. Vesnakov. After the death of his father, Koko (played by rapper Fyre) returns to his home village to sell the now vacant apartment. What Koko appeared as an annoying task to be done quickly, including childhood trauma, is becoming a confrontation with your own past.
Absurds combines with amusing and also with social charges.
The unusual format of the film reflects the close and inevitable with which coconut in the village is confronted: “Wherever he turns, suppressed emotions, a memory or just the sudden feeling of having lost something … he cannot hide anywhere and do not run away,” says director Vesnakov. Despite the close focus on the main character, the film repeatedly points out the personal level on social structures and problems and thus gives an interesting insight into everyday Bulgarian life.
Under the documentary films in the competition, “Everything Needs to Live” stabs by Tetiana Dorodnitsyna and Andrii Lytvynenko. It is the portrait of a Ukrainian who has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, but may be almost unknown in this country: Anna Kurkurina is a world champion in strength trendy, animal welfare activist and proud Butch-lesbe. In the film, the 58-year-old tells of prejudices with whom she was confronted in her athlete career. “You turned into a boy,” she was told. “I’m a woman, a lesbian stop.”
Kurkurina has been committed to animals in need for years – she is currently taking care of animals in her homeland in her homeland in the war. The film shows depressing pictures, but Kurkurina’s strength, optimism and humor do not make the film get dark.
In short: apparently absurds combine with amusing and also with social charges at this anniversary festival.
»Goeast« Film Festival, from April 23 to 29 in Wiesbaden, individual film screenings also in Mainz, Gießen, Darmstadt and Frankfurt/; Streaming online from 1st to May 8th: online.filmfestival-goeast.de
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