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– Haunted by nightmares in search of dreamers –

Synopsis

It is said that every social progress had to be fought for by courageous people – but how did they succeed? Can the enormous global crises of the present even be overcome? Driven by questions, doubts and visions, the film wanders through wild imagery, through the promises of happiness of modernity, freezes in the face of overpowering enemies, lives through resistance, failure and new beginnings. And we begin to understand – thanks to the inspiring stories of five people who were involved in overwhelming social upheavals. Together they struggle for answers with the authors of the film and the audience. They trace the point at which people begin to struggle. The point at which the decision is made to leave normality and security behind in order to dare something completely new.

Protagonists

Shahida Issel was an activist who helped bring down the apartheid regime in South Africa. Judith Braband organized the great protests in the GDR in 1989 that led to the fall of the SED regime. Camilla Càceres spent the last years fighting for a new constitution in Chile with millions of protests. Marlene Sonntag moved from Germany to militarily embattled Rojava to support the Kurdish revolution. And Kali Akuno is a highly networked organizer at the heart of the U.S. Black movement, most recently making a global impact with BlackLivesMatter.

 

Production: Freischwimmerfilm / leftvision

Distribution Germany: NeueVisionen

Director: Marco Heinig | Steffen Maurer | Luise Burchard | Luca Vogel

TRAILER: youtube.com/watch?v=sbJ9_BvEQek