Landscape images of Bamiyan in Afghanistan – including the giant rock cavities in which the magnificent Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 once stood – are alternated with delightful footage of children telling stories. It was only years later, upon receiving the translation, that Salloum realised these were the very same tales of Mulla Nasrudin, fantastical and comical, that he had enjoyed in his youth. An allusive chronicle of cultural displacement.
– Adrian Martin
Also in this combined programme
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Sinisukka 1948
An experimental dance choreography that goes beyond human bodies and into a micro-universe of relational aesthetics.
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Blues
A bowl of blueberries slowly disappears: light, colour, action, time – cinema. Gottheim’s first one-take film.
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Ultramint
A work of strange, almost perverse sensuality, organised in clusters of analogies and contrasts.
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3 Lieder
Timeless, silent film vignettes based on songs from Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe. A tribute to early film.
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Fear Factor
A reflection on the perils triggered by cultural appropriation and stereotypical representations of black bodies.
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Per una selva oscura
The dark forest beloved of poets, cinematically recreated in a timely, materialist and apocalyptic vein.
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Kajanaqtuq
Faded Super-8 images accompany an Inuk Elder’s memories in this powerful invocation of Inuit life and mythology.
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Film details
- Countries of production
- Afghanistan, Canada
- Year
- 2020
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 6"
- Medium/Format
- Digital
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