The Survival of Kindness

A personal look

"Rolf de Heer’s dystopia is meditative and hauntingly beautiful"

THE GUARDIAN
  • Archive - Festival 39
  • Director: Rolf de Heer
  • Australia 2023
  • 96 minutes
  • Subtitles in No dialogue

In the middle of the desert, BlackWoman is abandoned on a trailer, in a cage. Her captors have left her to die. But she is not ready to pass. She escapes, and walks through pestilence and persecution, from desert to mountain to city, to find ... more captivity. Those responsible are reluctant to relinquish their privileges, and BlackWoman, escaping once more, must find solace in her beginnings.

Winner of the Fipresci Prize at the Berlin Festival, the new film by Dutch-Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer is a poetic, scorching work on race, identity, and the strength of will.

Filmography: Charlie's Country (2013), Ten Canoes (2006), Alexandra's Project (2003), The Tracker (2002), The Quiet Room (1996), Bad Boy Bubby (1993).

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  • Director Rolf de Heer
  • Production Julie Byrne, Rolf de Heer
  • Script Rolf de Heer
  • Cinematography Maxx Corkindale
  • Editing Isaac Coen Lindsay
  • Music Anna Liebzeit
  • Festivals Berlin (Fipresci Prize), Karlovy Vary, Istanbul
  • Actors Mwajemi Hussein, Deepthi Sharma, Darsan Sharma
  • Source Lev Cinema