10th edtion CIFF – 10-14 April 2024
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MUSIC CALLS_This raw, energetic documentary follows six women, all of whom want to become the best Dancehall Queen in the world. It’s not just pop divas such as Beyoncé and Miley who imitate the provocative Jamaican dance style – anonymous women from Spain, America, Poland and Japan are also making this their emancipatory life goal.
Marisol Gómez Mouakad | Puerto Rico, Mexico | 2016 | color | DCP | 90 min | Spanish, English | e.s.
Dancehall is a dance style often criticized as being sexist by objectifying women. The documentary Bruk Out! A Dancehall Queen Documentary convincingly shows that this is a misunderstanding. One of the interviewees pointedly compares the extravagance of dancehall with punk rock: these women are doing what they want, they feel liberated when they are dancing, and the dance is an expression of who they are.
This dynamic documentary follows a number of women – from Japan, Italy, America, Poland, Spain, and of course Jamaica – as they prepare for the International Dancehall Queen competition in Jamaica, the birthplace of dancehall. For these women, dancehall is also a way of escaping their backgrounds and pain – of temporarily being in a different world. They all have nicknames, and for some of them this has become a liberating alter ego. Bruk Out! A Dancehall Queen Documentary portrays an energetic subculture bursting with ‘female empowerment’, in all its glory.
Place: The Cinemas 3
Date: 11 April 2018
Time: 22:00
Duration: 0:52
Place: The Cinemas 4
Date: 12 April 2018
Time: 22:30
Duration: 0:52
Place: The Cinemas 5
Date: 13 April 2018
Time: 15:15
Duration: 0:52
Place: The Cinemas 3
Date: 15 April 2018
Time: 21:30
Duration: 0:52
Year in
Festival
2018
Director
Cori WAPNOWSKI
Camera
USA
Cast
x
Country
Joshua Mayes
Jeremy Rogers
Editor
David Herr
Language
English
Length
69′
Music
Nikhil P. Yerawadekar
Producer
Cori Wapnowski
Production Company
Video Disco
Sales
Gunpowder & Sky
Sound Design
Travis Breitenbach
Year of Production
Website