- 2017
- Sundance Selects
- 1 h 34 m
SummaryIn New York City, LGBTQ youth-of-color gather out on the Christopher Street Pier, practicing a performance-based artform, Ballroom, which was made famous in the early 1990s by Madonna’s music video “Vogue” and the documentary “Paris Is Burning.” Twenty-five years after these cultural touchstones, a new and very different generation of LGBTQ youth...
Directed By:Sara Jordenö
Written By:Sara Jordenö, Twiggy Pucci Garçon
Kiki
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73
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Aug 15, 2016
83
As underground and DIY as the kiki scene might be, it’s still highly organized, and part of what Kiki expresses is this community organization as a strategy for survival. The struggle is real, and it’s hard to imagine how they keep pushing that boulder up the hill — being fully themselves in the face of so much hardship — but they are tough, and united.
Mar 1, 2017
80
Kiki shows us a group of brave and beautiful souls for whom the struggle is, unfortunately, probably about to get even harder.
Feb 23, 2017
80
Kiki often casts a rueful gaze, but it’s also exuberant and alive, and never despairing. It leaves you with the bracing sense that however tough and resilient its subjects might be forced to become, their hope of a better, more tolerant future will never go out of style.
Aug 15, 2016
80
An uplifting sense emerges of the resilience through community of youth who are marginalized, abandoned, isolated, bullied or sexually exploited.
Mar 2, 2017
75
With music by Qween Beat, Kiki shows the new generation of the ballroom scene, their care for one another, their awareness of the struggles ahead, their determination to be themselves, against all odds. They are scared, but they are strong.
Jan 27, 2017
50
The love these characters have for their lifestyle is obvious, as is their reasons for rejecting mainstream society for it, but the joy they receive from it is not conveyed to the viewer. Without that, Kiki is a decent survey of its chosen topic, but rarely anything more.
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Mar 2, 2017
8
Overall: Positive (Worth Seeing) Kiki is a film which pursues being straight forward with you. There is a deep desire for you to connect to these people and recognize their humanity. Not through one sob story after another, but just recognizing they are deserving. That they have fears, laugh and cry, and being **** or trans isn’t their entire life or story. It is a small part that for some reason is treated like a huge deal. So they hope and fight for a time when it isn’t. For they recognize that their culture, their people, they can’t survive if the nation and the world remains indifferent or oblivious. So they, while perhaps uncomfortable, they speak out to you in hopes you may change things in your own way. No matter how small.
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Production Company:
- Story
- Hard Working Movies
- Film i Väst
- Sveriges Television (SVT)
Release Date:Feb 24, 2017
Duration:1 h 34 m
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Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Chéries-Chéris
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
