Tom of Finland takma adıyla eşcinsel ikonlar yaratan ressam Touko Laaksanon’un gerçek yaşam hikâyesini perdeye taşıyan film geçen ocak ayında gösterildiği Göteborg Film Festivali’nde FIPRESCI ödülünü kazanmıştı. Senaryosunu Aleksi Bardi’nin kaleme aldığı “Tom of Finland” eşcinsel camianın küresel ölçekte eşit insan hakları için mücadele verdiği yıllarda yaşanan bir aşk öyküsünü anlatıyor. 2. Dünya Savaşı sonrası Finlandiya’daki dostlarını eğlendirmek ve ülkedeki homofobik toplumla dalga geçmek için çizdiği eşcinsel temalı desenlerin Los Angeles’da son derece popüler olmasıyla hayatı değişen Laaksanon bir anda ikonik bir kişiliğe dönüşür.

Tom of Finland

Tom is a nice guy, and that's his problem: Real women don't like nice guys. No surprise that he has never gotten laid. On graduation day and amidst laughter, he is presented with Fixi, a lifesize sex doll. How embarassing! But the next morning, Tom awakes next to a real woman - Fixi came to life.

Verrückt nach Fixi

What motivates people to organize their own communal living? What are the ideals behind it, how do they finance themselves and how does life in a community work? Based on six self-managed residential buildings in Austria from 40 years ago, the documentary film "Der Stoff aus dem Träume sind" sets out in search of answers. Filmmakers Lotte Schreiber and Michael Rieper tell these six stories by staying very close to the protagonists.

"The pioneers of the co-operative housing project in Graz-Raaba (1975) talk about its origins in the experimental ideals of the 1960s, about internal and external conflicts and about growing old together, while the residents of the Gärtnerhof eco-settlement in Gänserndorf talk about life on the periphery between idyll and isolation. The most recent buildings, the housing project at Vienna's Nordbahnhof and the willy*fred project in Linz, show completely different models and social milieus: here sociocracy with bourgeois responsibility, there the explicitly political ambition of permanently withdrawing houses from the market as part of the rental housing syndicate developed in Germany.
The architecture always remains in the background, but its role is reflected in the everyday lives of the residents, as is the political resonance space. The balance between lived solidarity and social control and the question of how transparent life should be for neighbours is a leitmotif that runs through the entire film, as is the tension between urban and village life. The editing and dramaturgy make these tensions visible and palpable, making The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of a cinematic experience that goes far beyond the purely documentary episodic." (Maik Novotny)

Rosamunde Pilcher: Der Stoff, aus dem Träume sind

East Germany, 1988. 19-year-old Franka doesn't really care for politics. She prefers going to the disco and dreaming about seeing Bruce Springsteen and Michael Jackson live in concert. But beneath her carefree façade, she is scarred by the loss of her baby brother. But then she meets Stefan: He's young, idealistic, and part of an environmental activist group. A mix that makes Franka instantly make fall for him – and his group, which welcomes her with open arms. But this wild, revolutionary influence does not stay unnoticed: Her mother, who's with the Party, is worried about Franka. As Stefan's group loses the support of the church, leaving them vulnerable to the state, Stefan and Franka are soon in the government's line of fire…