Program 5

Short film program consisting of:

SARCOPHAGUS OF DRUNKEN LOVES
CERTAIN WINDS FROM THE SOUTH
O SEEKER

Total running time approx. 70 min.

Sarcophagus of Drunken Loves

Today, in Lebanon, power cuts are not an event, they are a new state. Even the national museum is often deprived of electricity. But visitors want to see, despite everything. Armed with their phones, they come to visit the traces of past civilizations as their world crumbles. And so, in the darkness, shadows appear and things organize themselves differently, strangely…

CERTAIN WINDS FROM THE SOUTH

One fateful evening, M’ma Asana receives a visit from her son-in-law, Issah. He has come to inform her of his decision to embark on a journey to the south of Ghana in search of greener pastures. Through conversations between the two characters, and reflections of a few others, we uncover a vicious cycle of inequality that seeks to threaten their already precarious future.
The film is an adaptation of a short story of the same title by Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo. This story is part of her larger collection of short stories entitled “No Sweetness Here.” The collection takes a critical look at post-independence Ghanaian society.

O Seeker

While she waits to fall asleep every night, a young girl confronts her fears and anxieties about human existence, the news media, and the cosmos. Fear returns to her like an efficient postman carrying dizzying and worrisome letters in which she encounters the same characters each time: a troubled scientist, a two-headed snake, a dancer with four hands, and an unsuccessful magician who appears and disappears mysteriously. Amidst it all, a circus unfolds with its many performers leaping, twirling, and spinning in shiny costumes. One question looms over it all: “Where are we? Here – where we walk with our feet on the ground? Or there – where everything flows boundlessly?”
Set as the world slowly heals from a pandemic, O Seeker considers the relationship between science, politics, spirituality, and superstition in India as it weaves a puzzle of unresolved questions through conversations about grief, loss and absurd events, real and imagined.