Comrades in Dreams

NEW DOCS

This delightful film takes us to four very unusual places where movie exhibitors devote their lives to programming and celebrating cinema in a pre-digital, sprocketed approach. Eligible bachelor Anup Jagdale and his crew set up traveling movie tents in rural India. Platitude-dispensing, comrade-exhorting Han Yong Sil is a film projectionist in North Korea. Good-natured Lassane Badiel, Luc Kabore, and Zakaria Gnegne run an open air cinema in Burkina Faso. And Penny Teffertiller, in rural Wyoming, shows films and builds community at “The Flick,” a movie theater that, to most passers by, looks just like her church. All are idealists who share the passion for gathering film lovers together, but they also need to make a living. It’s a gentle character study filled with eloquent detail and sweeping cinematic beauty.  NK

Director

Uli Gaulke

Producer

Helge Albers

Release Year

2006

Festival Year

2007

Country

Germany

Run Time

102 minutes