Dreamy animated images in detailed henna painting and atmospheric watercolours dominate a young Spanish artist’s moving journey of discovery. In a small bookshop in India, Inés comes across the feminist-utopian science fiction story “Sultana’s Dream.” It is about the terrible revenge on men, the bookseller explains. In the slim volume she wrote in 1905, Rokeya Hossain describes the fantasy realm of Ladyland – a land in which women are self-determined and live in peace, in which they run all government affairs and all forms of education are open to them. And the men? Their place in Ladyland, the bookseller continues, is where they belong: locked up at home.
Fascinated by the literary “painting” of this place and its inventor, Inés sets out in the footsteps of the writer and teacher Hossain, who championed education and equal rights for Indian girls and women as early as the beginning of the 20th century. The trip takes the Spaniard across contemporary India. Her companions are the dreams of Ladyland – and the utterly different realities of the lives of the women she meets on her journey.
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https://www.dok-leipzig.de/en/film/sultanas-dream/programm
艾玛(亚历山德拉·香度 Alexandra Chando 饰)和苏顿(亚历山德拉·香度 Alexandra Chando 饰)是一对双胞胎姐妹,刚刚出生便被分别送往了两个家境迥异的家庭抚养。艾玛成长在贫穷的家庭中,生活里事事都不甚如意,日子过得越来越憋屈。而苏顿则幸运的多,她被有钱人家领养,成为了养尊处优的千金大小姐,不仅有一帮无话不谈的好友,还交了一位英俊帅气的男友。
一次偶然中,艾玛和苏顿重逢了,惊异于两人几乎一模一样的容貌,苏顿提出了一个令艾玛怎么也想不通的请求——代替自己,体验几天富家小姐的生活。然而,几天过去了,苏顿却音信全无,与此同时,艾玛开始意识到,自己似乎落入了一个圈套当中。