After deciding to launch their 2020 edition online, the organizers of Visions du Réel had one month to create a new paradigm. They weren’t starting from scratch, of course; the selection was alread…
After deciding to launch their 2020 edition online, the organizers of Visions du Réel had one month to create a new paradigm.
And so the festival site will offer a series tabs called Pathways, regrouping films from the festivals various competitions and sections under headers such “State of the World,” “Revolt & Resistance,” and most tellingly, “Parallel Worlds & Confinement.” Initially, the films seem wholly different: While the former mixes interviews with North Korean escapees alongside digitally altered images taken from the country’s Chinese border, the latter culls from surveillance camera perched in a Palestinian neighborhood in Ramla.
Dea Gjinovci’s “Wake Up on Mars” also runs in the “Confinement” section. It centers on a Kosovan family in Sweden, whose request for asylum meets with rejection. What ensues is trauma for the two daughters, victims of “resignation syndrome,” which results in a long coma. In the face of this atrocity, Furkan, the youngest in the family, demonstrates uncanny resilience and starts building a space craft as a horizon looking towards all possible futures.
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