Sultana’s Dream

Filmstill Sultana’s Dream

Sultana’s Dream

El sueño de la Sultana
Isabel Herguera
International Competition Animated Film,
Out of Competition
Animated Film
Spain,
Germany
2023
86 minutes
Hindi,
Bengali,
Spanish,
Basque,
English,
Italian
Subtitles: 
English
Audio Description
No Premiere

Dreamy animated images in detailed henna painting and atmospheric watercolours dominate a young Spanish artist’s moving journey of discovery. In a small bookshop in India, Inés comes across the feminist-utopian science fiction story “Sultana’s Dream.” It is about the terrible revenge on men, the bookseller explains. In the slim volume she wrote in 1905, Rokeya Hossain describes the fantasy realm of Ladyland – a land in which women are self-determined and live in peace, in which they run all government affairs and all forms of education are open to them. And the men? Their place in Ladyland, the bookseller continues, is where they belong: locked up at home.

Fascinated by the literary “painting” of this place and its inventor, Inés sets out in the footsteps of the writer and teacher Hossain, who championed education and equal rights for Indian girls and women as early as the beginning of the 20th century. The trip takes the Spaniard across contemporary India. Her companions are the dreams of Ladyland – and the utterly different realities of the lives of the women she meets on her journey.


Jana Kraft

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10.10.
#282
Schaubühne Lindenfels
Sultana’s Dream
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10.10.2023
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#282
Sultana’s Dream
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12.10.
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Sultana’s Dream
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15.10.
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Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Isabel Herguera
Script
Gianmarco Serra, Isabel Herguera
Cinematographer
Eduardo Elosegi
Editor
Gianmarco Serra
Producer
Fabian Driehorst, Chelo Loureiro, Mariano Baratech, Diego Herguera, Iván Miñambres
Sound Design
Simon Bastian, Gianmarco Serra
Score
Gianmarco Serra, Tajdar Junaid
Animation
Izibene Oñederra Aramendi, Ana María Sabater Araújo, Paula Valiño Rivera, Sergio Pereira del Castillo, María José Alfonso Torrescusa

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German Distributor
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