5 – 12 May
Curated by Nico Marzano
ICI London once again supports the Institute of Contemporary Arts‘ seventh edition of the annual international film festival dedicated to the works of pioneering filmmakers and researchers in the cinema of the real, with Italian guest Francesco Montagner and the UK premiere of his award-winning film Brotherhood, a portrayal of the aspirations of three brothers to escape from traditional values imposed on them by their elders in contemporary Bosnia.
Jabir, Usama and Useir live a life of manual labour and daily prayer in the Bosnian countryside. The three brothers are either too young to remember the Bosnian War or weren’t born when it raged, but the conflict still casts a shadow. All they have are the words of their father, ghost stories of forest-dwelling soldiers and heroic tales of the Mujahadeen battling Serbs. But soon, two of the brothers begin to question their fathers’ teachings and dream of a better life.
Winner of the Golden Leopard Award in the Cineasti del Presente (‘Filmmakers of the Present’) section of the Locarno International Film Festival, Francesco Montagner’s second feature addresses the cultural bogeyman of radical Islam by carefully exploring how surroundings play pivotal roles in the lives of young men growing into adulthood. The trust and respect Montagner earned from Salafist groups lends Brotherhood the intimacy it requires to explore the brothers’ interior lives as they come of age and question the wisdom of the adults around them.
The screening will take place on Wednesday 11 May at 8.15pm at ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH, and will be followed by a Q&A with director Francesco Montagner.
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The seventh edition of FoR has been conceived around the theme of Communality. The festival includes eight days of screenings, discussions, workshops, experiments in sound, live performances, and other activities that all explore the idea of communality through different fields of practice.
FoR22 will celebrate collective action and artistic endeavour. Through the focus on communality, it offers a stage for both engagement and reflection, and looks at documentation and representation as an ensemble of practices through which audiences can shape and elicit their own meanings, causes and effects. The festival shows how interaction with others can provoke the proliferation of new communal spaces, allowing each and any person to find their own space, forms of representation and means of artistic production while in conversation with other members of their communities.
For more information and tickets please visit the ICA’s website
5-12 May, ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH