But lačhe manuša sakana kerena efektora /impakto/ ki olengeri societa, thaj kodo kerel olen but godžaver? O dokumentarco Taikon si korkorutno portreto, režirimo kotar o Lawen Mohtadi thaj o Gellert Tamaspe ko 2015berš. O korkorutno portreto ko dokumentarco Taikon, režirimo kotar o Lawen Mohtadithaj o Gellert Tamaspe2015 berš, sikavena e Katarina Taikona-kero trajo, voj si jekh kotar e majvažno Romane džuvlja ki moderno historija. E Taikonako karaktero, savo so majangle marela pes e formencar kotar e marginalizacija thaj čhororipasar kolesar so bajrovena e romane čhajora, kidijal voj bajrovela ki jekh harizmatičhno thaj zurali romni–kompletno pagerindoj e sakanutni Romengi prezentacija pe ekrano. E Kotora /sekvence/ kotar e korkorutno Katarinako Taikon orginalno video materijalo, thaj o moderno intervjuora odolencar kola so džanela sine olakere pikturenge makiba dena buvli percepcija pala jekh lačhi pakivali džuvli, savi sine pionero te marel pes vaš e Romane manušikane hakaja ko Švedo. Olakero trajesko piribe kotar e naeducirimi čhajori pa sa dži ko olakero resibe te ovel lačhe pindžardi lilengi hramovdi/writer/vi političko aktivisto pe Romane hakaja si fantastičhno.

O dokumentarco sikavela olakero trajo hronološko, crdindoj kotar e traumatično anglunipe pa sa dži ko olakero meribe. Našindoj kotar e ispidimo prandipe /leibe rom/ sar tinedžerka, e Taikona sine skurto kariera sar akterka thaj akate avela zurali sar jekh centralno figura. Čhačhe si kodo kaj o paro bibahtalo čhavorikano trajo dijas e Taikonake inspiracija dureder ki olakeri karijera. I paramisi/storija vaš e Katitzi, kotar e popularno Tajkonako hramosardo lil, kote so voj sar autoro drabarel korkori pes ko dokumentarno filmo, dela refleksija pe olakero korkorutno trajo, o lil sine olake terapija te nakavel pesky inakli olakeri nakhli vrama resindoj olakere pharivrama. E fotografije thaj o video materijalora sikavena ola sar lošali zurali persona, savi so arakhel peski pakivali buti vazdela pes but, sa odova anela olake reputacija thaj respekto ko olakeri političhko zor ko literaturno kotora. Voj sakana marela pes sine vaš e Romane hakaja ki edukacija, khera thaj arakhibe buti.

O dokumentarco zurales sikavela e Tajkonaki zor thaj ispidipe te ačhovel pes ko edukacijakero drumo thaj te avel pes publičhno lačhe pindžardi. Kodoleske akharena sine ola “Švedisko Martin Luther King”; thaj čhačhes voj personalno araklja pes e Martin Luther Kingesarko ko 1960šelberšipe. Voj marela pes sine te vazdel i pakiv pe egalno hakaja thaj šajdipa sa e Romenge ko Švedisko societa, voj dijas vorba thaj kerdas buti pe olakeri kauza but vrama, sa kodo lijas laki zor thaj pala buteder berš voj peli ki koma thaj muli. Ko agor katar o dokumentarco, o serijalo kotar e fotografije vi da jekhvar zurarena e Tajkona-ki kontribucija pe Romengere hakaja ki sasti Švedisko societa. O agorutno video si ki kali-thaj-parni piktura kotar e olakero mujalipe– olakere zurale jakha thaj kovle mujeske karakteristike sikavena olakero maribe, pakivali dinamika so legarena sine trujal olako dživdipe.

Recepcija

Tempo Documentary Film Festival (Sweden), March 2015 https://tempofestival.se/en/program/taikon-2/

Sweden’s Way Out West Festival, August 2015 http://www.screendaily.com/festivals/way-out-west-to-host-jonas-akerlund-world-premiere/5090802.article

Screening at the NYC Scandinavia House, 2016, hosted by the Consulate General of Sweden in New York http://www.swedenabroad.com/en-GB/Embassies/New-York/Current-affairs/News/Screening-of-Documentary-Taikon-at-Scandinavia-House-sys/

Screening at the Washington DC House of Sweden, 2016
http://www.dc-embassy-events.org/events/2016/10/16/film-series-screening-of-taikon

Social Justice Film Festival in Seattle, USA, November 2016 http://www.socialjusticefilmfestival.org/?tribe_events=katarina-taikon

Unspoken Human Rights Festival, Utica, NY, USA, October 2016
http://www.iamunspoken.com/film-festival/

Screening at the Compact Roma Film Night (Romedia), Budapest, Hungary, 2017 http://www.cei.int/sites/default/files/file/compact_with%20logo.pdf

Katarina Taikon has been compared to Martin Luther King. She was born in a tent, and came to change the course of Swedish history. The story about the young girl who was denied education, learned to read in her late twenties, and later became one of the most read authors of children’s books in Sweden, is also an account of the emergence of the modern Swedish welfare society – and the one group left behind: the Roma minority.

»I don’t know how people will react to my book, all I know is that it’s the beginning of a long struggle.«

With those words Katarina Taikon stepped into the limelight. The year was 1963 and her first book, Gypsy Woman, had just been published. This was also the start of her lifelong struggle for human rights for the Roma in Sweden, aiming to provide access to education, long denied, and the closure of the tent and caravan camps where Swedish citizens of Roma background were forced to live.

Katarina Taikon’s struggle in the 1960’s was hugely successful, but she also became the target of vicious attacks from politicians as well as »ordinary people«.

In the 1970’s Katarina Taikon started writing the autobiographical series of children’s books about the young Roma girl, Katitzi. The sequence became a huge success and was the most read children’s books in Sweden second only to Astrid Lindgren’s international successes Pippi Longstocking. A whole generation of children in Sweden grew up reading the books about Katitzi.

The documentary paints a dramatic and vivid portrait of one of the most important advocates of human rights in 20th century Europe, set against the backdrop of the developing Swedish welfare state.

The film, directed by Gellert Tamas and Lawen Mohtadi, will premiere in late 2015. The film is based on Mohtadi’s acclaimed biography of Katarina Taikon, The Day I Will Be Free (Natur & Kultur, 2012).