adminLovemore Meya Arts Correspondent
In life, situations that people encounter make them stronger while for others it diminishes their self-esteem.
Such is the case with a movie titled “Flocking” courtesy of Swedish writer Emma Brostrom, which premièred at Ster Kinekor, Eastgate on Thursday night during the International Images Film Festival.
The movie in Swedish language with English subtitles is very educative and informative in every aspect of life as it addresses people’s fears, trials and tribulations.
Above all, it deals with the trauma that rape victims go through, their families’ worries, society’s views and how to move on after such experiences.
“The movie is about people’s fears, not belonging to a group, pointing the various ways we communicate with each other like the social media. But at the same time blowing the distance between grown up people and young people.
“It talks of a young girl Jennifer(14), she claims a boy in her class named Alexander has raped her.
“In the small society they live in, all the people believe in this boy protecting him and his family.
“After he is said to have raped the girl, the community starts to hate the girl and her family,”said the movie director Beata Gardeler.
It makes Jennifer a social outcast,with the people calling her names like prostitute.
“It becomes really hard to stand against a big group and what they are thinking.
“I think the fears that people come across are just the same all over since after I showed this film in other festivals in Berlin, Los Angeles and now in Africa the response is not different.
“It is the same with people experiencing this kind of pattern and in this film I wanted to tell that it is the society that creates our roles.
“Alexander (the assailant) gets support from his family and other members of the community leading him to rape another girl,” she said.
The moral lessons in this film makes people understand the consequences of crime and that is should be do away with to makes the world a better place than protecting criminals.
Beata said the production was finished in February this year and it has been released in Sweden.
The next port of call will be Austria and Milan in Italy.
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