WEGIERSKA JESIEN FILMOWA ON MOJEEKINO.PL
DRAKULICS ELVTARS (COMRADE DRAKULICH)
Watchable. Another Hungarian flick set in communist times, again in the early years, this time shortly after the Cuban revolution. The plot where spies try to discover comrade Drakulics' (Drakulich's) secret is totally engaging, treated with a pinch of salt, but it's not a comedy. At least I was watching glued to the screen but without outbursts of laughter.
HER DOCS FILM FESTIVAL
COMO EL CIELO DESPUES LA LLOVER (THE CALM AFTER THE STORM)
Watchable. Only for bits of Argentinian life, like a girl stung by a scorpio. But the film is a random assembly of home videos and footage of making a movie - always a mistake as a topic and here, what's worse, lacking any sign of editing. Junk.
LES PRIERES DE DELPHINE (DELPHINE'S PRAYERS)
Recommended. Beautiful, smart, yet illiterate Cameroonian recounts her life. The story's shocking and frustrating with the amount of abuse she's been through and inability to escape her predicament. She's a wonderful actress so it watches like a monodrama, with the difference it's real.
I wish she would venture into acting, which probably hasn't crossed her mind but which she has a flair for, and finally break free. I'm definitely rooting for her.
THE CASE YOU
Recommended. Harrowing. I felt as if I was being sexually abused - it was so suggestive. The film details the spate of manipulative tactics - legal and psychological - hence letting you understand how the crime was so successfully committed on a string of innocent young women.
What I learnt from the interesting Q&A with two of the protagonists: In Germany many such cases are dropped before they get into court, or if they get in, there are many myths around them in court. Such cases are silenced also in Switzerland. What's more you have to report a sexual assault within 3 months and that's too little time even to process it mentally by the victim.The producers made them sign consent that the footage from the audition could be used in the subsequent feature film - that is luckily legally invalid. What the vicious producers have tried for real was to show the documentary from the audition at a festival - unsuccessfully. What the victims legally achieved so far is that in the documentary from the audition obscures their bodies and voices. Now the court has halted the premiere of the abusive recording for the duration of the trial. They hope to have it removed from the internet and any public space entirely. I wholeheartedly hope they'll succeed.
Journalist Remigiusz Kadelski and interpreter Marta sadly lacked professionalism. Not only would they avoid wearing masks whenever not asked directly to wear them, he wasted time asking questions about nothing, insisted on using the interpreter even when everyone understood English and she would occasionally misinterpret which resulted mostly from her not having seen the films but also sometimes her insufficient English. As for him, why is any 'him' conducting interviews, instead of a 'her' at such a festival? Well, at least both were gentle to the victimised actresses.
STATELESS
Watchable. The film's chaotic but also all the depicted formal legal struggles are futile so it's all the more frustrating.
The expert activists' panel after the screening was more interesting.
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