How do you rebuild a life when you know you can never go home?
Another Dream, a hybrid animated documentary and VR game, brings the gripping, true love story of an Egyptian lesbian couple to life. Faced with a post-revolution backlash against the LGBTQ community, they escape Cairo to seek asylum and acceptance in the Netherlands. An accompanying installation allows audiences to reflect on what they have seen, heard, and felt in VR.
Another Dream is part of Queer in a Time of Forced Migration, an animated transmedia series that follows the stories of LGBTQ refugees from Egypt, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia across continents and cultures — from the 2011 Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa region to the world today.
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For more information, visit: adoatopictures.com/another-dream
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CITED
Forbes: "The Top 50 XR Experiences Of 2019"
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WORLD PREMIERE:
• 2019 Tribeca Film Festival - In Competition (Storyscapes)
OFFICIAL SELECTION AND AWARDS:
• 2019 Sheffield Doc/Fest (Best Digital Experience Award Nominee)
• 2019 Games for Change Awards (Best XR for Change Nominee)
• 2019 Sheffield Doc/Fest
• 2019 Open City Documentary Festival
• 2019 Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Best XR Pitch)
• 2019 Nederlands Film Festival (Golden Calf Nominee)
• 2019 Ottawa International Animation Festival
• 2019 Denver Film Festival
• 2019 The Portal LA
• 2019 Viborg Animation Festival (ANIDOX VR) - win for Best Innnovative Storytelling Award
• 2019 Hamburg International Queer Film Festival
• 2019 Alternate Realities Tour - HOME Manchester
• 2019 Kaboom Animation Festival
• 2019 São Paulo International Film Festival (Mostra)
• 2019 International Queer and Migrant Film Festival - Amsterdam
• 2019 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
• 2019 Fantoche International Animation Film Festival
• 2019 KaohSiung Film Festival
• 2019 Massimadi: Afro LGBTQ+ Film & Arts Festival
• 2019 VR Experience Day 2019, Albrecht Ade Studio (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)
• 2020 Festival Massimadi
• 2020 Raindance Film Festival
• 2020 Curta Brasilia Film Festival
• Refresh Amsterdam, December 2020, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam
