Tales of Two Who Dreamt
Drifting between fiction and documentary, Tales of Two Who Dreamt follows a family of Hungarian Roma (Gypsy) asylum seeking refugees living in a large apartment complex in Toronto. The film follows their everyday life routines and also ventures into the characters’ hopes and dreams. Constructed through characters and the building’s corporeal landscape, we drift with various members of the family through spaces and people suffering the effects of displacement and disconnection in their hope to build a sense of community in a foreign space. The film tells the several different tales: a woman who went crazy after her son fell of a balcony, an abandoned dog locked in an apartment, a fire that burned an entire floor in the building, an enormous snake that escaped and was never found, a child that turned into a bird, among other stories.
Credits
Writer: Andrea Bussmann & Nicolás PeredaProducer(s): Dan Montgomery, Andrea Bussmann, Nicolás Pereda
Executive Producer(s): Maximiliano Cruz, Sandra Gómez, Kazik Radwanski
Cinematographer: Noé Rodriguez
Editor: Andrea Bussmann
FESTIVALS
Berlinale International Film Festival, 2016Art of the Real, Film at Lincoln Centre, 2016
Play-Doc International Documentary Festival, 2016
FICUNAM, 2016
La Casa Encendida, 2016
FICCI Cartagena, 2016
Jeonju International Film Festival, 2016
Porto/Post/Doc, 2016
RIDM, 2016
Vancouver International Film Festival, 2016
Images Festival, 2017