Eva Hartmann

KÖY (Turkish for village) is about the longing for home, for belonging and the freedom of the self. Three women from three generations are united by their Kurdish roots.

KÖY (Turkish for village) is about the longing for home, for belonging and the freedom of the self. Three women from three generations are united by their Kurdish roots.

Clint, um homem atormentado pelo passado, decide se isolar em uma casa nas montanhas. Nesse ambiente frio e hostil, ele vive sozinho e, em alguns raros momentos, interage com viajantes e nativos que não falam seu idioma e que visitam sua cafeteria. O isolamento, porém, não é o bastante para que Clint encontre paz. Certa noite, confrontando seus problemas, ele acaba embarcando em uma viagem interna por meio de sonhos, memórias e delírios. Em Sibéria, Abel Ferrara repete sua parceria com o ator Willem Dafoe. Juntos, eles voltam a explorar a intimidade e as aflições do homem, como fizeram em Tommaso (2019) e Pasolini (2014), mas de uma forma mais mítica e lúdica.

Being alive and having a life are two different things for Ville Jaaranto. Freedom as his dream and equality on his agenda, he sets to travel across Europe by his power wheelchair. While on his journey, he comes to realize that neither he himself nor the world around him are quite ready for it. Crazy dreams are the best cure for a mundane life.

Rudolf Thome’s idiosyncratic oeuvre was created with a continuity rare in German cinema – he has directed 28 feature-length films over more than four decades since 1968. The writing of the script for film no. 29 and the parallel efforts to secure financing form the thread that runs through this cinematic portrait, which consists wholly of conversations and observations around Thome’s home, a converted farm in Brandenburg. The filmmaker is nothing if not forthcoming, and the viewer has the opportunity to experience him in various other roles: as a gardener, a father, a cyclist, and a performer of his own persona.