Sultana's Dream
Isabel Herguera
2023
About Film
Inés is a 30-year-old Spanish animation director who is in Ahmedabad to break up with her Indian lover Àmàr. Incapable of dreaming and a little lost, Inés enters a bookstore by chance, where she discovers Sultana's Dream, a novel written in 1905 by Rokeya Hossain which tells about an imaginary country ruled by women. Fascinated by this classic of feminist utopian literature, and by its author, the Muslim writer and activist Begum Rokeya Hossain, Inés embarks on an initiatory journey through India in search of traces of the author and the Country of Women. From this moment on, the story of Inés and that of Rokeya Hossain run parallel.
About Director
After graduating in fine arts from the Universidad del País Vasco, she continued her studies at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf as a student of the video artist Nam June Paik and she earned a master’s degree from the California Institute of the Arts. She directed Los Muertitos (1993) and founded her own studio, Loko Pictures in 1997. In 2003 she returned to Europe and became the Festival Director of Animac, the International Animated Film Festival of Catalonia, and coordinator of the moving image laboratory at Arteleku in San Sebastian. She made several short films such as La gallina ciega (2005), Ámár (2010); Bajo la almohada (2012); Amore d’inverno (2014) Kutxa beltza (2016). Sultana’s Dream is her first full-length film.
English (UK) 
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