‘Our Time Will Come’ Explores Interracial Love and How To Bridge Cultural Differences

Berlin-Basted Austrian Filmmaker Ivette Löcker (Night Shifts, Ties that bind) Likes to go deep on human relationships and connections.

“My Previous Films Have Very of Field Dealt with Relationships, Different Kinds of Relationships,“ She Tells Thr On the Sidelines of the 31st Edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival, WHERE HER LATEST DOCUMENTARY, Our Time Will Come (UNSERE ZEIT WIRD KOMMEN), screens in the feature cormentary competition process. “” The And I Was Ver Much Interes Interested In The This Kind of Interes Kind of The Interracian Relation Relationship, Because and Think Itk It’s Getting More and More Common. As Members Of The Wite Majoority Relationships. ”

The synopsis on the Sarajevo Festival Website Sums Up The Movie’s Focus this Way: “After Years of Uncertainty and Involuntary Exile, Siaka from the Retur ‘Homeland’ of Austria to Build A Stable Existence and Start a Family. immobile, and their Own History and Traditions Are Just As Hard to Shake Off. ”

The Website of the Berlin Film Festival, WHERE The MOVIE WORLD Premiered, Described It as “the Portrait of a Love Between Cultures Authoritarianism ”Amid the rise of a populist Right-Wing Party. “Racism is A Sakeness,” Siaka Says in Letting Off Steam in One Scene of the DOC.

The Film Mixes Observational Filming with Interviews with Victoria, Siaka and the Couple Together. And it took Viewers from Vienna, Austria to Gambia. Löcker Doesn’t Use Any Label for Her Cinematic Style, But Highlights That In Addition To Fly-on-The-The-Wall Scenes and Conversations With the Couple, She Also Tytally o Visuals. ”

“FOR ME, IT’S A [story] of Modern Love, Because is So Common to Not Live in your Home Country Anymore, ”Löcker Explains.

The Genesis of the Film is Very Unusual. “I was approached by this coupple, whoh was very new for me,“ The Director Recalls. “They Asked If Their Story Could Be An Interesting Topic for A Documentary Film. I Was Thrilled to Get To Know Them.” The Back Story Is That Löcker Had Met Victoria at An Austrian Film Festival, Diagonale in Graz, in 2017, That Screened “Her Short Experimental Film Before My Feature Film,” Namely Vict Kanten (Grenzen) Before Löcker’s Ties that bind.

“We Met at the Festival, and that that Same Year, She Met Her Now-Husband, and We Just Stayed in Contact,“ Löcker Explains. Years Later, Victoria Wrote to Her To Share the Couple Was Now Married and that her Husband Had An Interesting Immigrant Story. And she asked if löcker or someone sheew May be interested in docurenting his, and their, story.

“WHEN WE Had Research Interviews Via Zoom, Because It Was Still Dringing The Pandemic, I Realized That It Is Very Fascinating How They, As A Couple, Deal With Other, How They Com. Differences. [a film] About Three Challenges, SO and Asked Them if they Could Imagine Giving US INSIGHT INTO An Interracial Coup. I am very happy that they agreed to this. ”

The Filmmaker Followed The Couple for a Year After Siaka Had Received His Residency and Work Permits. “For ME, It Was Interesting To Portray Them in A Year Whose Kinds of Questions and Struggles Were Already More or Less Begind Them, Because My Premise Was.”
While Löcker Initially Expectioned A Focus on the Couple, thatme Expanded to A Focus on Family. “After all, especialyly siaka was longing for a Christ and family. SO, this topic or theme was getting more and more important for the Film.”

Löcker Also Wanted to Tell A More Global Story. “OUR Goal Was to Make a Film That Has, Of Course, The Special Story With Their Special Special Stories or not.

What’s Next for the Filmmaker? “I have a New Project, and We Will Try to Start the Finance Process On It In September,“ Löcker Tells Thr and Teases Some Details About the Project. “IT will be about female friend.