SPECIAL SCREENING
Macondo (Omdu)
Presented in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum
Dir. Sudabeh Mortezai, 2014, Austria, 98 mins. Digital projection. With Ramasan Minkailov, Aslan Elbiev, Kheda Gazieva. In this sharply observed dramatic feature by documentary director Sudabeh Mortezai, an eleven-year-old Chechen boy, living in a refugee settlement outside Vienna, struggles with family responsibility, life in a tough neighborhood, and images of the dead war hero father he barely remembers. According to Peter Debruge in Variety, “Without the slightest hint of manipulation, Macondo opens its heart to a character who becomes our connection to an incredibly foreign lifestyle, just an arm’s reach from opportunity the rest of us take for granted.”
