The screening of movie La Reine and subsequent discussion will take place as part of FAMUFEST 40.
La Reine / Nikola Klinger / Czechia 2024 / 61 min. / DCP – Drugs have been with 75-year-old non-conformist Ian all his life, but times have changed. Whereas in the 1960s they were part of the counterculture, today, addicts flock to the lavender farm far from the outside world, not looking for a different or better society, but bringing their traumas with them. Nikola Klinger filmed not only Ian's memories but also a nostalgic chronicle of social processes on Super 16. His portrait of individual and collective memory shows that there are two ways to use freedom, either as a healing herb or as a poisonous drug.
"Today we are taught to be individualists, but I think we are more dependent than ever."