The Garden Cadences

Currently shown at DAFilms VoD – worldwide

Mollies is a queer-feminist collective that had been living at a trailer park next to Ostkreuz in Berlin for nearly a decade. The Garden Cadences documents their last summer there before being evicted.

Jone is ready to fly. She finds herself at the beginning of something new, but before she moves on, there needs to be a closure. Jone is one of Mollies, the queer-feminist collective that had been living for a decade at a trailer park next to Ostkreuz, Berlin. The Garden Cadences traces their last summer before being evicted.

Credits

Director, DoP and Editor

Dane Komljen

Text

Aalo and Dane

Producer

Zsuzsanna Kiràly

Sound Design and Mixing

Jakov Munižaba

Foley

Ivan Uzelac

Color

Ivan Marković

Technical information

Germany 2024
DCP · 1  :  1,85 · 5.1 Mix ·

With

Aalo, Jone, Royce, Noah, Kï, Neo, Marlek, Steffen

Festivals

Cinéma du Réel – International Competition
,
Jeonju International Film Festival
,
BelDocs – Serbian Competition
,
FILMADRID – Official Competition
,
WPAC (Wuhan Photography Art Centre)
,
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – Imagina Section
,
New Horizons International Film Festival – Waves Section
,
Dokufest Prizren – Balkan Dox Competition
,
International Film Festival Cinematik Piešťany
,
DocLisboa
,
DOK Leipzig
,
Trieste International Film Festival
,
Zagreb Human Rights Film Festival
,
Cinéma Spoutnik
,
Xposed Queer Film Festival
,
Union Docs
, and
Filmhuis Cavia

Bio/Filmo

Dane Komljen was born in 1986 in Banja Luka. He made three feature films, Desire Lines, Afterwater and All the Cities of the North, one documentary, The Garden Cadences, and numerous shorts exploring notions of body, space, utopia and being together. His films were awarded at Festival del Film Locarno, IFF Rotterdam, Festival de Cannes, Sarajevo FF, New Horizons IFF, Festival de Sevilla and shown at many more. He lives and works in Berlin.