HERE FOR LIFE (2019, 87mins)
A film by Andrea Luka Zimmerman / Adrian Jackson
Produced by ARTANGEL
World premiere, 72nd Locarno Film Festival 2019, awarded a Special Mention, Concorso Cineasti del Presente
Nominated for the Raindance BIFA discovery award, 2019
1st prize international competition, Film Festival du Cinema en Ville, Belgium, 2020
“…an outstanding collective cinematic achievement. With its contagious rhythm, enthusiastic approach and generous love, the jury has decided to give the Feature Film Award to Here for Life”
SOMETIMES WE NEED TO HEAR OUR STORIES TOLD BY SOMEONE ELSE
In a world and a city framed by finance and loss, ten Londoners make their wild and wayward way, arguing for their own terms of definition as they go: singular lives, nudging towards a co-existence stronger than ‘community’. On reclaimed land they find themselves, between two train tracks, on the right side of history, making their own wagers with the present tense and future hopes: with who has stolen what from whom, and how things might be fixed. Hesitant, troubled, open to wonder, bearing their wounds, so they, unruly, stage their lives. It is a heightened, often contradictory rite of passage; finding solidarity in resistance, clear of demands except the right to go on.
Against the dictatorship of normalcy – CPHDOX
Haven’t seen anything like it. The underworld. The world. The space that none of us see but that is ever there. With us. Beside us. In us even. IN us all even.
– Lemn Sissay, writer and broadcaster
