Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Streets of Glória
  • Mitad de Ana (La)
  • I'm Not a Nobody
  • Circo
  • Ashes
  • Tree (The)
  • Male Gaze: Risk Appeal (The)
  • City of Mermaids
  • Mika Ex Machina
  • Outliers and Outlaws
  • Luther: The Fallen Sun
  • Do You Want to Die in Indio?
  • Groomsmen: First Look (The)
  • Amar Prem Ki Prem Kahani
  • Barbitch
  • Birthright
  • House with a Voice
  • Unbowed
  • Joy of Love (The)
  • Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
  • Electrocardiograma
  • In the Shadows of Dreams
  • Thesis on a Domestication
  • Drone
  • Flashback
  • Present Body
  • Some Nights I Feel Like Walking
  • As Fado Bicha
  • Feeling Randy
  • Confesiones Chin Chin
  • Third End of the Stick (The)
  • George Michael: Portrait of an Artist
  • They Are Siufung Law
  • Bluish
  • Fotogenico
  • Nobody Likes Me
  • Black Fruit
  • Sabbath Queen
  • One Last Night of You
  • No Dogs Allowed

Reed Dance

Country: Poland, Language: Polish, 56 mins

  • Director: Andrzej Fidyk
  • Writer: Andrzej Fidyk
  • Producer: Dariusz Jablonski

CGiii Comment

“Swaziland is dying because condoms spread AIDS. There was no AIDS when there were no condoms available”, say many Swaziland citizens. The annual Reed Dance lasts six days. A large group of girls set out to cut reed; for six days they dance before the King, hoping to be chosen to become yet another of his wives or concubine.

There are two groups of protagonists in the film: King Mswati III and the members of the royal family, and four fifteen-year-old girlfriends, students from one school, who think what to do to make the King notice just one of them during the Reed Dance and choose one of them for his wife or concubine.

Towards the end of the film , we see the fabulous, colorful, half-naked Reed Dance, and we begin to realize that many of these thousand beautiful girls will soon die of AIDS.


Watch...