Intimate and sensitive, Toli Toli functions as an awaking of a dormant past. Referencing a forgotten children’s song, the Toli Toli (chrysalis of a moth) points the way towards imagined places shaped by colonialism. Meanwhile, two hands weave an invisible fish trap, reflecting on disappearing gestures and storytelling.
Also in this combined programme
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The Blood of Stars
A woman and a girl discuss the omnipresence of iron that connects our bodies to the earth and the cosmos. -
Pareidolia
Abstract patterns made on 16mm film are used as source material for finding similar figurative images by an online search engine to create visual poet -
Meteorito
Mysterious ‘bird men’ seek the place the sun rises. In rituals they balance between life and death. -
Terril
Painstaking analysis of the peculiar geography of Charleroi, forever marked by the 1956 mining disaster and the ecological rebirth that followed. -
Forest on Location
A virtual replica of Białowieża primeval forest. Iranian singer Yazdani performs his remake of Nature Boy, a song that originated there.
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Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
