On Monday 29 July, at 9pm, at the Karavas School with Free Entrance, CinePortokalia presents Arash T. Riahi's film “Oscar and Lily” (Austria, 2020, ENG & GRE subs).
“A fairytale family film with two wonderful protagonists who
reveals more about our present than many realistic dramas”
spielfilm.de
Two refugee children from Chechnya, 8-year-old Oskar and 13-year-old Lily, who live in the
for the last six years in Austria, are to be deported together with their mother. The latter's suicide attempt has resulted in a short-term postponement of the deportation, but also means the forced separation of the family. The children's hope that they will be reunited with their mother is fuelled by their love for each other and bypasses all bureaucratic obstacles with passion and poetry. A bittersweet odyssey that reveals that sometimes to survive you need to interpret the world around you in many different ways. Director Arash T. Riahi, having left his homeland as a child himself, did not want to create a sad film about refugeeism. His aim was to present both the difficult and the happy moments, because life is a mixture of both. Thus, the two refugee children may have to adapt to their new environment, away from their mother, and face a harsh reality, but they also have beautiful moments.
“The film offers a “window” into the emotional world of its two protagonists through a kind of radical tenderness and detailed poetry. And it achieves this in a way that is both fairy-tale-like and at the same time an acute look at the difficulties of reality.
He won the Audience Award at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival, followed by several awards at other festivals. But even away from the red carpets and film festivals, this film deserves every attention.”
kino-zeit.de
Awards:
Best Female Performance Award & 4 nominations (Best Film,
Direction, Costume Design, Production Design) at the Austrian Film Awards
Cinema 2021
Best Teenage Film Award, Filem'on: International Children's Film Festival
Brussels 2020
Best Film Award, Filmfestival Kitzbuehel 2020
Best Film Award, International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience
Scoundrel 2020
Best Film Award from the Student Jury, Taormina International
Film Festival 2020
Award for Best Feature Film by the Children's Jury, Olympia
International Film Festival for Children and Young People 2020
And as always, beer on the house... We are waiting for you
#CinePortokalia
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Portokalia Karava, Kythira
Cultural Association since 1977
Patricius Agricultural School
Karavas, Kythira, 80200
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