Wake Up on Mars
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Wake Up on Mars |
| Original title | Réveil sur Mars |
| Country of production | Switzerland , France |
| original language | Albanian , Swedish |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 74 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dea Gjinovci |
| script | Dea Gjinovci, Lucas Minisini |
| production |
Britta Rindelaub , Jasmin Basic , Sophie Faudel , Dea Gjinovci , Heidi Fleisher |
| music | Gaël Kyriakidis, Fabio Poujouly, Jeremy Calame |
| camera | Maxim Kathari |
| cut | Catherine Birukoff |
| occupation | |
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Wake Up on Mars (original title Réveil sur Mars ) is a documentary by Dea Gjinovci that was first made available online to participants of the Tribeca Film Festival from April 15, 2020. The film shows the story of a Roma refugee family whose daughters suffer from the resignation syndrome, a state similar to a “deep sleep”.
action
It is winter in the small town of Horndal in central Sweden , around 200 kilometers northeast of Stockholm. In the apartment of the Demiri family, refugees from Kosovo who are Roma in Sweden waiting for the decision on their application for asylum, there is an atmosphere like in the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty". The eldest daughters, 17-year-old Ibadeta and 16-year-old Djeneta, spend the day lying on their beds or sitting in a wheelchair and have been in an apathetic state for several years, which doctors compare to hibernation, as their hearts are only beat very slowly. However, the two girls are not the only ones in Sweden who have been victims of the “resignation syndrome”, which affects the children of asylum seekers, often when they are threatened with deportation.
The everyday life of the rest of the family, of father Muharrem, mother Nurje and the two younger brothers Resul and Furkan, is determined by the concern for the two girls. Her tasks also include tube feeding the girls. After their application was rejected twice, they have not given up hope of being able to stay in Sweden, ideally as a real family, should Ibadeta and Djeneta wake up again.
The 11-year-old Furkan has suffered a trauma due to the condition of his sisters, feels responsible for them and takes refuge in his thoughts on Mars. When the thaw begins in Sweden in spring, Furkan is busy collecting parts from junkyard cars for an ambitious spaceship building project.
The resignation syndrome
The disassociative state that Ibadeta and her sister Djeneta find themselves in has come to be known as " resignation syndrome " as it has often been observed in children of refugees who have faced hopelessness or the risk of returning to their previous lives and who are completely in a catatonia withdrew / fell. The term established itself in Sweden from 2009, where every year almost 100 asylum-seeking children fall into an apathetic state when they threaten to have to return to their home country. Most of these children came from former Yugoslav and Soviet states.
The Demiri Roma family shown in the film came to Sweden from Kosovo in 2007 to escape persecution as Muslims. After being deported in 2010, they returned in 2014, where their residence applications were denied twice more. In April 2018, the family finally received a temporary residence in Sweden for 13 months. This gave the family hope that their girls could feel safe enough to grow out of their condition.
production
The Swiss-Albanian filmmaker Dea Gjinovci directed and also wrote the screenplay with Lucas Minisini . Gjinovci uses audio tapes from the news to tell the recent story of the syndrome. Spun out of Furkan's interest in planets, Gjinovci created an entirely fictional, secondary plot in which the boy gathers discarded auto parts to build a rocket that will take him to Mars.
Wake Up on Mars was produced by Britta Rindelaub and Jasmin Basic from the Swiss Alva Film and by Sophie Faudel for the Parisian Mélisande Films in collaboration with Dea Gjinovci from Amok Films and the American producer Heidi Fleisher.
The film music was created by Gaël Kyriakidis together with Fabio Poujouly and Jeremy Calame, known as the artist duo Pavillon.
The film should celebrate its world premiere in mid-April 2020 as part of the Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival . One month before the start of the festival, it was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic and postponed to a previously unknown date. Nevertheless, the film was made available online from April 15-26, 2020, the festival's original time slot.
reception
Reviews
Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter comments in her review that it is fitting that Wake Up on Mars begins in winter, as the icy Swedish landscape provides a suitable backdrop for this real story, which is in a limbo. Director Dea Gjinovci is less interested in the history or epidemiology of the mysterious disease than in its impact on the everyday life of the girls' families.
Fabien Lemercier from the European online film magazine Cineuropa also thinks that one of the great qualities of the film is that it never tries to question the medical side or to deal too much with the immigration case. Gjinovci used an appropriate dose of beautiful shots of the Swedish landscape and Fukan's energy to give her film a respite outside the slowed-down interiors of the Demiris.
Awards
International film festival Visions du Réel 2020
- Nomination in the national competition
- Nomination in the Documentary Competition ( Dea Gjinovci )
Web links
- Wake Up on Mars in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wake Up on Mars - Information about the film from Swiss Films
- Wake Up on Mars in the program of the Tribeca Film Festival (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Fabien Lemercier: Review: Wake Up on Mars. In: cineuropa.org, April 16, 2020.
- ↑ a b Wake Up on Mars. In: catndocs.com. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d e Sheri Linden: 'Wake Up on Mars': Film Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter, April 17, 2020.
- ↑ a b c Kevin Jagernauth: 'Wake Up On Mars' Tenderly Explores The Effects Of Unspeakable Trauma. In: theplaylist.net, April 17, 2020.
- ^ Anna Clemens: Resignationssyndrom: The Sleeping Beauty Children. In Sweden, nearly 100 asylum-seeking children fall into apathetic state every year when they learn that they have to return to their home country. Medical professionals are puzzled. In: Spektrum.de, April 3, 2020:
- ↑ Jessica Brautzsch: Resignation Syndrome: When refugee children give up completely. In: mdr knowledge. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
- ↑ Rudolf Hermann: The riddle about the traumatized refugee children in Sweden - everything just simulated? In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 21, 2020.
- ↑ Wake Up on Mars In: cineuropa.org. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
- ↑ Wake Up on Mars. In: tribecafilm.com. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
- ↑ Marc Malkin: Tribeca Film Festival Postponed Due to Coronavirus. In: Variety, March 12, 2020.
- ^ Hilary Lewis and Trilby Beresford: Tribeca Film Festival to Debut Online Programming as Films Are Judged Remotely. In: The Hollywood Reporter, April 3, 2020.
- ^ Vassilis Economou: The 19th Tribeca Film Festival is postponed. In: cineuropa.org, April 14, 2020.
- ↑ Visions du Réel: Swiss documentaries celebrate their premiere - online. In: swissfilms.ch. Retrieved April 25, 2020.