Gondola
Silent film by Veit Helmer (Tuvalu) about two female cable car attendants in a Georgian mountain village who fall in love while going up and down opposite each other. They meet every half-hour as their cabins cross.
German director Veit Helmer is well known on the international festival circuit for funny, fable-like films with little or no dialogue. In Gondola, Helmer depicts the relationship between two women who work on a ropeway running through the beautiful mountains of Georgia. The two cable car conductors always meet when their gondolas pass each other halfway. They soon turn to mutual flirting, but how do you go about this in those brief moments, from a distance and high in the air? And will they actually ‘get’ each other?
‘There are a few places on earth where you don’t hop on the bus in the morning, but on the cable car’, Helmer notes in his director’s statement. Such a place in Georgia inspired the director to write this original, romantic story.
The screening on Sunday 11 May at 12.15 can be booked as a Mother's Day Film Breakfast.