Films
- Iktamuli, 5'28"
The film depicts thoughts and feelings of a mother with her so-called mentally disabled son. While she moves with him through everyday life, her ambivalent feelings, her struggles to accept him as he is, get into her way. The story is told as an associative montage of scenes, following feelings and experiences of the mother, as we listen to her inner monologue.
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- No Obvious Signs , 64'
This is the story of the woman soldier, Oksana Yakubova, who returns from war. Talking to psychologists, battling her PTSD and panic attacks, she tries hard to get back to normal life. The documentary shows her path from the beginning of her rehabilitation process till her way to the normal family life and work.
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- NOBU, 8'
“NOBU” is a short film about former world champion karate and Japanese immigrant Nobuaki Konno. In this film his daughter and fashion designer Lisa Konno asks him about cultural differences. Prior to making this movie, Lisa made fashion collection inspired by him and his humorous view on integration. During the film he wears the collection which makes this production a short documentary and fashion film in one.
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- So It Goes, 1'
In 1940 Truus lives in Rotterdam with her mother Aartje. In 2019, her grandson Arjan wonders what the first sunny days of May 1940 look like for them. He makes a reconstruction and concludes that there’s little he can add to it.
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- Track, 1'
A fictional documentary narrated by Rosa Limanci, a young Latina woman who reflects on the reasons for her migration and the condition of depopulation of her current place of residence in the south of Europe. It features a reflection on her childhood and her present, using the crossroads as examples of the depopulation of territories which are considered far away.
The question is: are rural realities in Spain and in Latin America comparable? Specifically, in relation to population and abandonment of territories, poor and rich alike.
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- When the Dragon Came, 21'
A story from the countryside. She was almost 12 when she met him and two years later became pregnant with their first child. She did not want to get married, but her family decided otherwise. He married her because they were equally poor and unhappy. They had 8 healthy children who left home a long time ago. Conjoined with each other and their small village, they are not waiting for a change. Their daily life revolves around work: grazing cows and farming the land. Next to each other all the time but separate.
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