Javeed

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...

DreamyanimatedimagesindetailedhennapaintingandatmosphericwatercoloursdominateayoungSpanishartist’smovingjourneyofdiscovery.InasmallbookshopinIndia,Inéscomesacrossthefeminist-utopiansciencefictionstory“Sultana’sDream.”Itisabouttheterriblerevengeonmen,thebooksellerexplains.Intheslimvolumeshewrotein1905,RokeyaHossaindescribesthefantasyrealmofLadyland–alandinwhichwomenareself-determinedandliveinpeace,inwhichtheyrunallgovernmentaffairsandallformsofeducationareopentothem.Andthemen?TheirplaceinLadyland,thebooksellercontinues,iswheretheybelong:lockedupathome.Fascinatedbytheliterary“painting”ofthisplaceanditsinventor,InéssetsoutinthefootstepsofthewriterandteacherHossain,whochampionededucationandequalrightsforIndiangirlsandwomenasearlyasthebeginningofthe20thcentury.ThetriptakestheSpaniardacrosscontemporaryIndia.HercompanionsarethedreamsofLadyland–andtheutterlydifferentrealitiesofthelivesofthewomenshemeetsonherjourney.源自：https://www.dok-leipzig.de/en/film/sultanas-dream/programm