Filmhuset, 2022-02-01

A spring in exile

Filmmakers, like other artists, have sought to portray and understand the sense of homelessness that many carry with them. The film is an example of how an outsider’s perspective, such as that of an exile, can change the universal language of cinema. Because the history of cinema is international. Filmmakers have traveled the world to fulfill their dreams far from home. To escape what denies them their dreams and sometimes their lives. Crossing the Mediterranean, the Atlantic – or whatever borders they have had to cross – they have changed cinema.

This spring, Cinemateket explores the place of exile in film through filmmakers whose work is characterized by exile, and whose outsider views and experiences have changed film throughout history.

Genome Max Ophüls who took Vienna with him wherever he fled and wherever he made movies. Through Claire Denis films, where people imprisoned by their origins try to navigate their way through the past. Through Sarah Maldoror who took her camera around the world. Through Tsai Ming-liang who portrays boundlessness in a constant struggle with borders. Through Jim Jarmusch’s portraits of misfits and misfits in search of belonging.

An in-depth look at films that explore loss, leaving home, coming to a new place, making a new home and longing to return. Films by those in exile who have taken their country’s cinematic traditions and language and incorporated them into their new country. Films that explore the relationship between what you leave behind and what you come to. Films about longing for the place you left behind and eventually returning.

Limited seats, tickets are released monthly.