195 Lewis
A web series about the loves and challenges faced by a group of black, queer, polyamorous women in Brooklyn.
45'
USA
IFFR 2017
This film version adds a contemporary perspective to the prize-winning book Double Play by Curaçaoan writer Frank Martinus Arion. We take a retrospective look behind-the-scenes of the fatal domino game in the 1970s through the eyes of Ostrik, now fifty, who is a son of one of the players. Because his Dutch wife has left him, he now returns with mixed feelings after a long absence to his birthplace, where his father was a good-for-nothing taxi driver who was very good at finding his way to rum and the red light district, Campo Alegre.
As a guileless boy of eleven, Ostrik witnesses a tragedy that will mark him for life. The harder the dominos hit the table, the more suspicion flares up. Friendship changes to rivalry, but in this macho world, it’s up to two desperate yet courageous women to turn things around. This adultery drama is also a story about pride and humiliation, money and love, ambition and hope.
After the screening on Fri 27 Jan, there is live music from the Curaçaoan-Dutch vocalist Izaline Calister. Additionally there is music from DJ Git Hyper. Follow Git Hyper on Facebook
Programme
A web series about the loves and challenges faced by a group of black, queer, polyamorous women in Brooklyn.
45'
USA
IFFR 2017
A rag-tag group is trying to launch a moon rocket to beat the American Apollo 11. The astronaut is a 17-year-old girl who has to be the first to set foot on the moon along with her two cats.
14'
USA
IFFR 2017
Earn (Donald Glover) is the inexperienced manager of his cousin, rapper Paper Boi. All they have in common is their struggle for a better life and earning more money. This hilarious, intelligent series, also aired by television channel FOX, offers an idiosyncratic, experimental narrative style but also a critical glimpse of the spirit of our times.
300'
USA
IFFR 2017