Comrades in Dreams

Multinational documentary “Comrades inDreams” is an urgent and breathtaking lovesong to all that a film festival is about. Wemeet three men from Burkina Faso leasingan open-air cinema in Ougadougou; a womansearching for movies in Kim Jong Il’s NorthKorea; American volunteers running a movietheatre in a Wyoming barn; and a 25-year-oldman in Shingnapur, India setting up a screeninside a circus tent. “Comrades in Dreams” is aportrait of film – and the people who love it – atfour scattered places in a world dominated bycommercial and standardized film production.Despite the geographical distance betweenthe four cinemas, there are similarities.Connecting them all is James Cameron’s tenyear-old blockbuster “Titanic”, which gets a newperspective in each country – especially from the landlocked audience in India who has a hardtime conceiving of such a big ship.This film about how the cinema createsdreams, is also a film about the dream ofcinema.

Premiere Status
Swedish Premiere: Producer
Helge Albers: Script
Jeannette Eggert, Uli Gaulke: Cinematography
Axel Schneppat: Music
Mark Orton: Spoken language
Korean, French, Maharathi