Focus South Asia
Germany, India, Spain
Basque, Bengali, English, Hindi, Spanish
2023
83 mins
South Asia Premiere
Festival History
San Sebastián Int'l Film Festival (Basque Screenwriters Award for Best Script)
Filmfest Hamburg
DOK Leipzig
Tokyo Int'l Film Festival
São Paulo Int'l Film Festival
Seminci - Valladolid Int'l Film Festival
Tokyo Int'l Film Festival
Focus South Asia
Germany, India, Spain
Basque, Bengali, English, Hindi, Spanish
2023
83 mins
South Asia Premiere
Festival History
San Sebastián Int'l Film Festival (Basque Screenwriters Award for Best Script)
Filmfest Hamburg
DOK Leipzig
Tokyo Int'l Film Festival
São Paulo Int'l Film Festival
Seminci - Valladolid Int'l Film Festival
Tokyo Int'l Film Festival
Inés, a Spanish artist living in India, stumbles upon Sultana’s Dream, a science fiction story written by Rokeya Hossain in 1905. It describes Ladyland, a utopia in which women rule the country while men live in seclusion and are responsible for household chores. Fascinated by the story, Inés embarks on a journey across the country to search for the one place where women can live in peace.
Miren Arrieta
Dedjani Mukherjee
Miren Gabilondo
Nausheen Javeed
Ranjitha Rajeevan
Mary Beard
Paul Preciado
Roberto Bessi
Manu Khurana
Isabel Herguera
Gianmarco Serra
Eduardo Elosegi
Gianmarco Serra
Gianmarco Serra
Simon Bastian
Gianmarco Serra
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N/A
Isabel Herguera
Chelo Loureiro
Mariano Baratech
Fabian Driehorst
Iván Miñambres
Sultana Films
Fabian Driehorst
fabian@fabianfred.com
Wouter Jansen
info@squareeyesfilm.com
Isabel Herguera is a Spanish animation film director with an international background. She earned her master's degree from Calarts in Los Angeles, where she directed Los Muertitos (1993), an animated short about the wall separating Mexico and the United States. In 2003, she became the director of the Catalonia International Animated Film Festival. Her shorts have received awards and Goya Prize nominations. Isabel has been a professor at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and Academy of Media Arts Cologne. She has held workshops on animation around the world. Sultana's Dream is her first feature film.