Chaos

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Österreich, Libanon, Katar 2018
Sprachen(OF): arabisch, deutsch
Regie: Sara Fattahi
Drehbuch: Sara Fattahi
95 min

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Goethe-Institut im Exil [ ]

Friedenszeiten? Was ist das?
Ist doch der Krieg in den Traumata der Vertriebenen allerorten allgegenwärtig.

In Damaskus legt eine Mutter dem ermordeten Sohn täglich frische Kleidung aufs Bett.
In Schweden bannt eine Geflüchtete manisch den erlittenen Schrecken in Collagen.
Eine andere in Wien verhält sich unauffällig, stumm, an der Grenze zum Verschwinden.

Ingeborg Bachmann liest ihr Gedicht „Exil“ und gibt den vom Bodenlosen und vom Unsagbaren handelnden Bildern Halt; den wie verwischten, zittrigen, abschweifenden Bildern, in denen Identitäts- wie Heimatverlust sich abbilden.

Ein Blick sorgenvoller Angst, durch Tränen, auf verlorene Seelen – beunruhigt, beunruhigend, zwingend. (Alexandra Seitz, Viennale)

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Sara Fattahi, born in Damascus in 1983, studied Law at Damascus University and graduated at the Fine Art Institute in Damascus. Storyboard artist & animator for several channels such as Al Jazeera Kids and SpaceToon, as well as art director of soap-operas from 2003 to 2008. Since 2010, independent filmmaker and producer. Since 2014 collaborations in research and writing for independent short films.

First short documentary 27 METERS in 2013. Fattahi’s first feature length documentary COMA was produced in 2015 and was granted the ‘Regard Neuf Award’ for the Best First Feature Film at Visions du Réel 2015, the FIPRESCI Award at the Viennale 2015, and has been screened at numerous festivals such as MoMA’s Doc fortnight 2016, Berlinale’s Critics’ Week 2016, São Paulo 2016.

Eintritt 3,00 Euro

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Plot: The film narrates the story of three women in three different cities. They have given up on life. One lives in Damascus. She has stopped speaking to others entirely, isolating herself in her flat. The other has left Damascus as a result of the war and went to Sweden, where she imprisons herself in her paintings, hoping through them to rid herself of the torments of the past. The third ended up in Vienna and faces an unknown future, like the ghost of a woman who fled Austria after the Second World War. It is a discussion between a woman stuck in Damascus, a second stuck in exile, and a third who has recently left. It is a conversation between the interior and exterior - an impossible conversation.