This silent film restricts itself to the inner world of a ten-year-old girl who slowly creates another reality, using paper silhouettes for a private performance of dramatic light and dark through which she stages her longing and revenge on the world outside.
Also in this combined programme
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Dirty Suit
With his resignation from life settled, a man must go about the awkward business of returning to that life, since there is nowhere else to… -
Blind Date
Inspired by the Baganda tribal creation myth of Kintu, the first man and woman on earth are observed during their sensual awakening. -
Fighting with Father
In this autobiographical reworking of painful experience, a young man must come to grips with his father’s destructive behaviour. -
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
- Uganda
- Year
- 2009
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 25'
- Medium/Format
- Mini DV PAL
