An emigrant musician can’t recall the stories of his birthplace. A mother keeps the restaurant open, hoping her son returns. A cowboy wonders what’ll become of his cows. A widow cares for a chapel no one visits. And the oldest woman remembers everything—especially that—Estantegas. Under the burning sun, a strange figure roams the empty landscape of Portugal’s Minho with a boom pole, meeting the remaining inhabitants and capturing their memories on a sound recorder. An ethnographic ghost document
Student Short Film
Princess Dina Bo Bina
When a vain princess runs out of her signature hair gel, she ventures outside of the kingdom in search of slug jelly, motivated by the fear that she will become unlovable if she can’t live up to her family’s eccentric beauty standards.
As I Witness (As I Witness قهر )
The act of writing collapses the past and the present into the dissonant experience of witnessing the colonization of the body.
Trains passing by
Anne is caring for her mother and endlessly assembling ballpoint pens at home. Her monotonous everyday life is only interrupted by the constant ringing of the telephone. The wrong number again. Old conflicts break out again between mother and daughter, the distance between them seems irreconcilable. Until one day the phone rings again.
No Time (Zeitlos)
Lia's life has always been a model worker, until one morning she suffers a time emergency and her life is thrown out of joint. She is no longer a productive member of the office community, which is why her superior has no choice but to transfer her to the home office. There she meets her rebellious neighbour Paula, who shows her the door to a new world and Lia has to make a decision: Does she dare to set off into chaos or does she try to restore order?
Nesma
Shortly after her caregiver passed, Nesma, 12 years old, is forced to live life as her, tricking people into believing that she is alive; to avoid returning to the orphanage. All is well, until the orphanage calls for Nesma’s routine check-in.