Our first impression is of a man in his elemental nature, languishing in the rain with a bottle like a puddle on the earth. With his resignation from life settled, he must go about the awkward business of returning to that life, since there is nowhere else to go.
Also in this combined programme
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Blind Date
Inspired by the Baganda tribal creation myth of Kintu, the first man and woman on earth are observed during their sensual awakening.
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Fighting with Father
In this autobiographical reworking of painful experience, a young man must come to grips with his father’s destructive behaviour.
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Ink
This silent film restricts itself to the inner world of a ten-year-old girl who creates another reality using paper silhouettes.
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Les egarés de l’hémisphère sud
At a Halloween party, a young Rwandan man and his sweetheart, a Canadian aid worker, ponder about the possibilities of living in the South.
Film details
- Country of production
- Rwanda
- Year
- 2009
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 19"
- Medium/Format
- Mini DV PAL
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