Sleep with your eyes open
11 May 2024 | 15:00
Sala Hera — Cinema Astra
National premiere
in the presence of the director
Kai lands in a coastal city in Brazil with a broken heart. The vacation she was supposed to take with her boyfriend turns into a lonely wander. Ending up by chance in Fu Ang’s umbrella store, she meets Xiao Xin and a group of Chinese workers living in a high-rise building. Amid misunderstandings and awkward translations, Wohlatz captures the sense of estrangement and loss of belonging that permeates the contemporary, in a globalized world that has only seemingly found lingua franca and in which we all feel like outsiders. A quirky play about language and the disquiet of incommunicability.
Production: Cinemascópio, Yi Tiao Long Hu Bao, Ruda Cine, Blinker Filmproduktion
Cast: Chen Xiao Xin, Wang Shin-Hong, Liao Kai Ro, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lu Yang Zong
Regia di Nele Wohlatz
97'
Brazil, Taiwan, Argentina, Germany
2024
She was born in Germany in 1982 but has lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for twelve years. Her films have screened at festivals such as Locarno, Rotterdam, the Viennale, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, and at institutions such as Lincoln Center and MoMA in New York. Her debut fiction film The Future Perfect (2021) won numerous awards and was selected in more than 70 international festivals.