Hari Sama – This Is Not Berlin #LFF2019

October 10, 2019

Hari Sama - This Is Not Berlin #LFF2019 fredfilmradio

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Hari Sama, director of the film This Is Not Berlin.

Director Hari Sama talks with us about his film, This Is Not Berlin, presented in the Dare section of the 2019 BFI London Film Festival. On this interview, he talks about the autobiographical elements of this movie, and how his own adolescence in a more rural area of Mexico helped him shape it. He also shares with us some of his thoughts regarding art, the way in which young people experience art today, and how art is a means of self-discovery as well as expression.

This Is Not Berlin: It’s 1986 and as Mexico’s capital goes World Cup-crazy, 17-year-old Carlos spends his days getting into schoolyard brawls and cruising around town with his rowdy pals to the thumping sounds of Judas Priest. But heavy metal guitar riffs soon give way to post-punk synths when Carlos visits subversive new-wave nightclub Azteca and finds himself immersed in a transgressive world of music, art, politics, drugs and sexual fluidity. Finally feeling like he fits in, the blossoming teen begins to forge his own identity and open himself up to a new and exciting world of untold possibilities. A coming-of-age tale with real bite, Hari Sama’s evocative homage to the anarchic spirit of adolescent rebellion exudes an infectious sense of energy, as well as a poignant pang of melancholy.

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