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The Garden Cadences

Dane Komljen| 2024| 62'

SYNOPSIS

Mollies is a queer-feminist collective that had been living at a trailer park next to Ostkreuz in Berlin for nearly a decade. The Garden Cadences documents their last summer there before being evicted. Jone is ready to fly. She finds herself at the beginning of something new, but before she moves on, there needs to be a closure. Jone is one of Mollies

BIOGRAPHY

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Dane Komljen

DANE KOMLJEN DANE KOMLJEN (SFR Yugoslavia, 1986) studied cinema and art. He made two features, All the Cities of the North (2016) and Afterwater (2022), along numerous short films. He works and lives in Berlin.

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Critical text

Les Mollies is a queer-feminist community living in a caravan camp located in a garden in an industrial area on the edge of the Ostkreuz district of Berlin. It is summer and the community is about to be evicted, so we witness the end of a project of life and coexistence. Bosnian-born filmmaker Dane Komljen immerses us in this ecosystem in transition, an enchanted, vulnerable and sensitive forest that acts as a refuge and a mirror for the people who occupy it. Meals, naps and meetings reveal the life trajectories of the Mollies who, like the space they inhabit, are fluid personalities in transition, both internally and physically. The lethargy of the summer evenings and the delicate nature that makes its way into the common areas submerge the space and the characters in a new category of fantasy. The end is near and the Mollies recapitulate, where they have come from and where they will go, with a natural melancholy that is typical of those who know well the states of metamorphosis, of those who know and accept that cities, like people, flow and mutate. The ghost of gentrification is barely glimpsed, although it is there, and it is perhaps at that moment, when looking at the cranes that must be building something new over what they have previously destroyed, that the film remembers a mother's dress that someone wore in a very long summer, as lazy as this one, reaching its highest levels of nostalgia and finally telling us about some lost loves that we will always wait for. NURIA CUBAS

Technical Sheet

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Estreno en España |

Prod: Flaneur Films (Zsuszanna Kiràly).

Guion, Foto y Edición: Dane Komljen.

Sound: Jakov Munižaba.

Intérpretes: Colectivo Les Mollies.

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