Sayyid El Alami

Ruletista

2024 | 20 min | Drama

Drama | 20 min | 2024

In Vienna’s Alterlaa — a vast housing complex built on utopian ideals — everyday life unfolds within rigid, carefully designed structures. Behind identical facades, countless lives exist side by side, largely disconnected. At the center of the film is an elderly woman who moves slowly through corridors and open spaces, carrying her dead cat wrapped in paper. As she drifts through her surroundings, her attempts to confront loss take increasingly absurd and darkly comic forms, revealing a fragile ...