The film traverses through the analogue photographic process of cyanotype, intertwined with the written experiences of mothers facing the emotional blue of postpartum depression. A film entirely handmade in cyanotypes during a workshop given by the director to mothers with this condition.
Hakan does not wish to return to Brazil, but doesn’t know how to tell Lissy that they can no longer offer her a dream life outside of Cuba. Hakan grapples with indecision when Lissy discovers that they have kept from her a chance to get off the island. Out of options that allow them to stay, Hakan must accept the new person they have become in order to return home.
Wara majored in film and audiovisual at the Ceara Federal University, Brazil, 2017; and most recently as a director at the EICTV. She has been in the film industry since 2013 as a script writer and director in projects related to native and gender themes. She is currently developing projects about a return to the Native identify through science fiction. Her style is hybrid fictional.
One night, between sleep and wakefulness, a woman remembers the abortion she experienced and the ghosts that accompany her.
Michelle Coelho, 32, Brazilian, is a journalist by training and documentary filmmaker graduated from the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba, with a master’s degree in author documentary creation from the same school. She started her audiovisual career with video reportages in Brazil, especially on issues related to agrarian and urban conflicts for media vehicles such as Brasil de Fato, The Intercept, Opera Mundi, among others. Her short film “Box of Soul” (2020) was selected for the special exhibition IDFA x EICTV and Pelicula Latina in Brussels. In 2021 she made a short film in Cuba “A Marcha de Balogun” selected by the São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, and the Benditas Tú Festival in Argentina. Her film “The Sea is Also Yours” was selected by the International Kurtzfilmtage Winterthur Festival in Switzerland, also for the International Rotterdam Festival and Miradas Doc Tenerife.
Cuban filmmaker (1993)
Graduated from the International Film and TV School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba (EICTV) in 2020 , and from DocNomads (Portugal – Hungary – Belgium) with a full scholarship in 2022. Her films explore interpersonal relationships, encounters, and growth processes, and have been selected in several festivals such as Jihlava IDFF, Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse, Curta Kinoforum São Paulo ISSF, Potiers IDFF & Doc Buenos Aires.
