Films about resistance to state power hold the most promise for rewarding viewing at Osian’s filmfest this year. Newsline offers a brief glimpse of five films that should not be missed.
Gift to Stalin
Visually stunning, Abdrashev’s Gift to Stalin is a story of resistance set against a brutal, dictatorial regime of Stalin, when Kazakhstan became the dumping ground for Soviet ethnic minorities. The film portrays the journey of young Sashka’s Jewish family in 1949 — part of a cramped transport making its way through the Eurasian steppe.
The Sea Wall Imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge in 1975, director Rithy Panh fled to Paris a few years later to make stirring films about the land of his birth. Set in the early 1930s, the adaptation of Margarite Duras’ 1950 novel The Sea Wall is a portrait of resistance against colonial oppression that would overthrow the French rule in Cambodia.
Police, Adjective With Herta Muller’s Nobel victory, Romania seems the flavour of the season. Police, Adjective is tipped to be one of the contenders for this year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Corneliu Porumboiu has followed up his Caméra d’Or-winning 12:08 East of Bucharest with this film about a young undercover cop living in a bleak post-communist small town.Teza
Teza examines the displacement of African intellectuals through the story of a young, idealistic young doctor, Anberber. This film of Haile Gerima has won the Golden Stallion, Africa’s top film prize, at Burkina Faso earlier this year.
The Long Night
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