Gagarin - Einmal schwerelos und zurück OmU

In the organizer's words:

• Thu, August 22, 2024 - Wed, August 28, 2024 at 8:30 pm

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Performers: Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven...

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• FR 2020
• 95 min
• Director: Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
• FSK: from 12 years
• Original version with German subtitles (OmU)

"Gagarin acts like a burning glass in which all forms and colors, all emotions and temporal narrative levels are bundled into a fictional-documentary picture: a political film, a touching love story and a shining SOS signal in the face of advancing gentrification."

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Gagarin tells the story of Youri (Alseni Bathily), the good soul of a neighborhood who clings to the idea and memories of living together in solidarity until it is no longer possible.
Youri is the self-appointed janitor of a 1960s housing estate in the suburbs of Paris called Gagarin. Although he and his friends try their hardest, they cannot prevent the city from deciding that the estate should be demolished.
One by one, everyone moves away, only Youri has decided to stay. First Youri makes new friends. The Roma girl Diana (Lyna Khoudri, The French Dispatch) is fascinated by his reclusiveness and the dealer Dali (Finnegan Oldfield, Corsage) also lives somewhere in the building complex. But then Diana's family's illegal settlement is broken up by the city. And Dali also disappears after a violent confrontation with the construction workers who are sealing up Gagarin and preparing it for demolition. Youri is the last inhabitant of the settlement, living as if in a spaceship. Youri knows that he has maneuvered himself into a dead end and that his surroundings are becoming increasingly hostile. But Youri is stubborn, he wants to complete his mission like a parabolic flight, and so he works on a countdown, at the end of which the high-rise settlement Gagarin is supposed to call for help for him. Unfortunately, another countdown is counting down from 10 to 0.

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