Schirkoa : In Lies We Trust

Schirkoa : In Lies We Trust

Ishan Shukla

  • 2024
  • India, Germany, France
  • Animation / Fantasy / Science-fiction
  • 1h43mn
  • Original version with French subtitles
  • Color
French premiere
Schirkoa : an “ideal” utopia in which citizens wear paper bags on their heads to mask all differences. Everyone is equal, everyone’s the same, until the day a rumor starts about a country without bags…
Schirkoa starts with a science fiction premise close to Ira Levin’s This Perfect Day, with this dictatorship hiding behind the “happiness for all” motto. This openly political animation film is a strange U.F.O (Unidentified Filmic Object), and a critic of dictatorships claiming to make citizens equal by erasing their identities. These individuals, stripped of their expression even in love, give an absurd tragi-comical spectacle, like a mirror of our tormented times.Only their movements and voices (Golshifteh Farahani, Soko, Gaspar Noé, Lav Diaz...) remind us that they’re also humans.

Screenings

04/09 • 19h15 • Screen 300
In the presence of the director

Booking

06/09 • 22h00 • Screen 100
In the presence of the director

Booking

Credits

  • Voiceover by : Goldshifteh Farahani, Asia Argento, Gaspar Noé, Anurag Kashyap, Lav Diaz...
  • Screenplay : Ishan Shukla
  • Photography : Ishan Shukla
  • Editing : Ishan Shukla
  • Music by : Sneha Khanwalkar
  • Production : Ishan Shukla, Bich Quan Tran