Christa Auderlitzky of Vienna-based Filmdelights announced October 6 her acquisition of Luca Lucchesi’s A Black Jesus, produced by Wim Wenders, and world-premiering at Dok Leipzig 2020.
The film poses a poignant and highly pertinent question. How can the residents of a Sicilian village worship the statue of a black Jesus but disregard the refugees who pray in the same church?
“What caught me immediately when I watched A Black Jesus is the humanity of the film and its message, that we are all human beings, no matter which racial or social background we have,” she told Business Doc Europe. “The film perfectly manages to build a bridge between the history and close relationship of Italy (especially Sicily) and Africa, and the current migration movement, by demonstrating what still unites people of both sides. With amazing pictures A Black Jesus also leads us in a world of Italian beauty and enjoyment of life, which is matchless in Europe.”
Another recent pick-up is Tatia Skhirtladze’s Georgian/Serbian/Austria co-pro Glory to the Queen, which Auderlitzky describes as “about the life and legacy of four female chess stars from Cold War era and Soviet icons of emancipation.” The film recently had its world premiere at Cinedoc Tiblisi and will play in competition at Luxembourg’s CinEast Film Festial October 19.
Backstage – Vienna State Opera raises the curtain on backstage life within one of the most famous opera Houses in the world and will be screened at EUNIC Filmfestival in Vietnam on 10th of October in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Auderlitzky also flagged up This Land is My Land by American-Austrian director Susanne Brandstätter who visited middle-class Trump voters in the swing state Ohio to try and determine the reasons they are voting for Trump.
“The film is an amazing seismograph for the upcoming US elections,” she says. “We just released the film in Austria in cinemas and worldwide on VOD last week. It will also screen in several German cinemas as well as in Luxembourg.”
