Synopsis
My mother dreamed that my late father came back home to see her. She strongly believes that it wasn’t a dream.
Director’s statement
While I was in Japan for researching an Japanese avant-garde film in 2010 I received the saddest phone call from my mother who told me that my father, who had been sick from liver cancer, had passed away peacefully. A few days before he died, I talked to him on the phone and he said, “I want my ashes to be scattered in the forest.” I replied to him with my tear flows “You will be alright.”
I didn’t even go back for his funeral. I began shooting this film which I had only an image of ashes and a forest, hoping that this film can cure me of my pain.
Award
2011 – Special mention International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, Cyprus
Screening
2011 – 40th Festival du nouveau cinema, Montreal Canada
– International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, Cyprus
– 19th Curtas Vila do CondeInternational Film Festival, Portugal
– 9th International Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris France
– 9th International Film Festival of Asian Pacific countries Pacific Meridian,
Vladivostok Russia
– Vienna Independent Shorts, Vienna Austria
– 13th Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn Germany
– 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam Netherlands
2010 – Recontres Internationales Paris, Center Pompidou, Paris France
– 22nd Aguilar De Campoo Short Film Festival, Spain
– 25FPS Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb Croatia
– The 8th Asiana International Short Film Festival, Seoul South Korea
– The 8th World Film Festival of Bangkok, Bangkok Thailand
– 6th Singapore Short Film Festival, The substation Theatre, Singapore
– 27th International Short Film Festival Hamburg, Hamburg Germany
– Fukuoka Independent Film Festival, Fukuoka Japan
– Thai Short Film and Video Festival, Bangkok Thailand
Super 8 transfer to Beta SP/ 6mins/ Color/ Stereo
A Epifânia ás vezes nos chega como um espectro nos nossos desertos.