Mekong 2030

Film description

A granddaughter and her grandmother from a tiny village finding a connection through the love for their home land. Young people looking for advice in
a monastery filled with flashing neon lights. A grim game played by two siblings fighting for their mother's corpse. A symbolic novella film about a near future whose plots are connected by the scenery – the surroundings of one of the biggest Asian rivers, whose banks are inhabited by sixty million people. It is
a reflection on its current situation and the need to look after the ecosystem of the region, and a unique insight into the world dependent on its resources, including some communities which have never been captured on film before.

An avant-garde science-fiction mosaic with no special effects, filled with the reflection on the consequences of the changes currently happening in the region, is a unique project by a number of directors from South-East Asia – Anocha Suwichakornpong (Thailand), Anysay Keola (Laos), Sai Naw Kham (Myanmar), Kulikar Sotho (Cambodia), Pham Ngoc Lan (Vietnam). Two of them are already familiar to Five Flavours audiences – the program of the 4th edition included
a retrospective of films by Anocha Suwichakornpong, one of the most interesting filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave, and "The Last Act" by Kulikar Sotho was presented in the competition section of the 9th edition. The filmmakers used simple, metaphorical forms talking about people's relationship with water –
a source of life, a travel route, a source of nourishment and creative inspiration, and an element of the spiritual trail.

text:
Jagoda Murczyńska