Five Flavors Festival: Skwar

TypeHall 2 - Audiovisual

Hour

20.11

|

5.30 pm |

NEW ASIAN CINEMA

Adam and Eve in Bangladesh. The Lord does not want Sadu to be alone any longer and arranges his wedding, at which the whole village is present. However, Sadu's happiness does not last long - soon the neighbors begin to call his wife crazy. Because the woman also does not behave as befits a wife: she does not know how to cook, does not allow herself to be touched by her husband, is friends with the goat and disappears from time to time, and the sign of her return is the fruit falling from the coconut palm growing nearby. Mejbaur Rahman Sumon takes viewers to a world where biblical myth and reality function in parallel, and man and nature form a symbiotic relationship — to Eden, a place beyond time and beyond human rights.

“Skwar” is a story about an originally wild woman, free from embarrassing moral norms, who pays for her freedom with social ostracism. Sadu's wife is like Eve — the first woman created before social norms were created. Fertile as a coconut palm, wild as the monsoon, enduring in harmony with the eternal laws of nature. Mejbaur Rahman Sumon created an allegorical film, full of symbols, sensual. With beautiful pictures, it literally transports the viewer to the Bangladeshi countryside, or maybe to a paradise garden? (Blanka K. Jugai)

Language: Bengali with Polish and English subtitles

SKWAR, dir. Mejbaur Rahman Sumon, Bangladesh 2026, 127'

--For whom: youth, adults

Venue: Sala 2 - Audiowizualna

tickets: 27 zł (n), 25 zł (u), 22 zł (with Kinomana Card)