A militant K-pop opera set in Warsaw, artist Diane Severin Nguyen’s If Revolution Is a Sickness presents post-socialist theatrics enacted by a new generation whose influences span from Mao to Blackpink. Meshing revolutionary writings with collaboratively choreographed sequences featuring a young Vietnamese girl and a dance troupe of Polish teenagers, Nguyen’s film is a euphoric and paradoxical conflation of socialist and capitalist iconographies and post-Cold War diasporas. (New York Film Festival)

• Sektion Section: Film
• Programm Programme: Rhythms, Presents