Far North 2007, mins , 35mm
 
  Director Asif Kapadia
Producers Bertrand Faivre
Screenplay Asif Kapadia, Sara Maitland, Tim Miller
Cast Michelle Yeoh, Michelle Krusiec, Sean Bean
 

Set during an unspecified time in the mid-20th century among the reindeer herders of the Arctic tundra, matriarchal Saiva (Yeoh) explains how a Shaman said she was cursed at birth and would bring harm to anyone she loved. The film’s narrative is relayed in flashbacks as we find Saiva and her young ward Anja (Krusiec) struggling to survive on the frozen wastelands. One day they find a collapsed man on the ice and take him in. Loki (Sean Bean) quickly upsets the women’s harmony as tensions and jealousies soon arise ... Asif Kapadia’s films have been rarely screened in Germany and never before at Britspotting; his debut feature The Warrior (2001) heralded him as a stunning new British auteur. This, his third feature, delivers his signature of a brutal landscape weaved into the core of the narrative. We are delighted to be screening his work for the first time.
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Im unwirtlichen, fast menschenleeren arktischen Norden lebt die Jägerin Saiva. Sie meidet den Kontakt zu Menschen, nachdem ihre Sippe von einer Gruppe Weißer massakriert wurde. Neben Saiva überlebt nur die neugeborene Anja den Überfall. Saiva nimmt das Mädchen auf, lehrt Anja das Überleben im Eis und erzieht sie dazu, Fremde strikt zu meiden. Erst Jahre nach dem Massaker begegnet Saiva wieder einem Weißen. Loki, ein desertierter Soldat, ist auf der Flucht. Erschöpft bricht er vor Saiva zusammen ...

Sa / Sat 12.4. • 20:15 • Berlin • Hackesche Höfe FT

 

 
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