ZONDG 6 OKTOBER VAN 11 TOT 14 UUR
Zes prachtige, soms een tikkeltje schurende, films over de hedendaagse vrouw. Een heerlijk blok om je zondagochtend goed mee te beginnen. We reizen van Frankrijk, naar Spanje, Duitsland en China weer naar huis. Waar staat de vrouw anno 2024 en kunnen we dat onderscheid tussen man en vrouw eigenlijk nog wel maken?
Maggy, 63, packs boxes in a large luxurious house. Time has come to leave her golden prison, where she has lived for years under the yoke of her ex-husband. He’d promised a Dolce Vita, but owned her life as he owned the walls of the house. Now the children are grown, and Maggy has received a court order to go away. She has never worked , she has no right to anything.
At the basketball camp, 15-year-old Fang talks about her dreams. But life never stops, it moves too fast. Her phone fell into water. There are too many stairs to climb. The adults seem to decide her future. And the rocket keeps being launched every month.
Following an emotional crisis, the painter Vincent van Gogh spent a year in a monastery in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence dedicated to the care of the mentally ill. During this year he painted many of his most famous paintings. The monastery is still there and it is still a psychiatric hospital, today receiving exclusively female patients. They are offered a range of artistic therapies, and many of them spend their days like Vincent – painting.
In the year he spent in Saint-Rémy, Vincent wrote many letters to his brother Theo and his sister Wil. In this film, the current patients reply to his letters. They write about their experience of the place, about what they share with Vincent, and about how they find consolation in their paintings and in nature.
By revisiting key elements of Naikee’s journey in her quest for identity and freedom, the film aims to question the overwhelming heteronormative standards of a society too binary to erect an ode to diversity. By re-interpreting Botticelli’s painting “The Birth of Venus”, Naikee asserts her right her right to become an image maker of the society.
A bus picks up some passengers on Friday morning to travel the route that brings them closer to the weekend, with their plans, their reflections and their fears. The same bus will pick them up on Sunday afternoon to return them to where they came from.
A meditative symphony on the city and death. The filmmaker returns to places where he, 18 years earlier, had made a film about suicide. Now, in the crowded streets of Tehran and in the city’s rundown corners with flanked walls, he searches for the reasons that had led three sisters to end their lives together.
