Freedom of Movement
Evoking the Olympic marathon in Rome 1960 in which Ethiopian Abebe Bikila
won Africa’s first gold medal, running
barefoot and becoming a sporting legend and symbol of an Africa
freeing itself from colonialism in the process, the artists have
recontextualised this amidst Rome’s rationalist architecture as a new race
involving refugees and immigrants staking a claim to ‘freedom
of movement’: also understood as the possibility of being welcomed
in another country.
Winner Ammodo Tiger Short Award, IFFR 2019 and IFFR’s Short Film Candidate for the European Short Film Awards 2019.
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ALTIPLANO
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Nehemías
A portrait of Christian, who migrated from the city to the jungle village of Cocachimba, Peru, where he finds himself an outsider. -
The Glamorous Boys of Tang
In his characteristic style of slow-motion camp, Su Hui-yu invokes lost scenes from a glitter-scattered, blood-splattered orgy from a 1985 cult film.
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Film details
- Countries of production
- Germany, Italy
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 30'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
