frame[o]ut – UNGEHORSAM
Open-air film festival

Sat 19.07., 21.30h, Courtyard 8, free entry
indoor backup venue: Arena21

film: LEVANTE
D: Lillah Halla | BR, FR, UY 2023 | feature film | 99min. | OV with English subtitles
With: Ayomi Domenica Dias, Loro Bardot, Gláucia Vandeveld a.o.
Fiction

17-year-old Sofia, a Brazilian star volleyball player on a queer diverse women's team, is about to play in the game that means promotion to the top league and for which she has trained tirelessly. On the way to her lifelong dream, she finds out about her unwanted pregnancy and has to seek help in a country where abortion is forbidden and criminalized. Desperate, she is targeted by a strict religious group that threatens her with the law and prison if she does not bow to their ideas of motherhood. It is only when Sofia confides in her single father and her team that things take an unexpected turn.

Lillah Halla is a Brazilian director and author. After studying at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de Cuba, she dedicated herself to film directing.
Her best-known films are LEVANTE (2023), MENARCA (2020) and IF I CAN'T DANCE, THIS IS NOT MY REVOLUTION (2014).
She won over 30 awards worldwide for Lillah Halla's first feature film LEVANTE.

Film still © MANJERICAO FILMES

In cooperation and co-production with MuseumsQuartier Wien