An old and innocent peasant woman’s shaky path towards saintliness turns into a tortuous journey through a pagan, animist world. This tragicomic parable mingles different registers, weaving together biblical, vulgar, fairy tale and literary references, attempting to strike an impossible balance between holiness and blasphemy, faith and cynicism.
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Murmuring Debris and Leaves Silently Fall
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I will make up a song and sing it in a theatre with the night air above my head.
This film, made from digital stills, evokes the utopian project of Egypt’s only modernist architect Hassan Fathy, a man committed to ecology and susta
Film details
- Country of production
- Italy
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 52'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
