DocNomads films at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Water and Salt by Luisa Mello (Brazil), and The Memory Atlas by Domenico Centrone (Italy) will be screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam, held from 22 January to 2 February in The Netherlands. The feature documentary A Rifle and a Bag, a collaborative project directed by three alumni of DocNomads within their production company NoCut Film Collective will have its World Premiere in the “Bright Future” competition of Rotterdam IFF.
By Luisa Mello
10' • Belgium • 2019
Synopsis:
During the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, a woman floats in waters far from home. When everything seems calm, a wave hits and carries her to the depths of her being.
Water and Salt is a journey through the consciousness of someone whose country is under threat from a fascist government.
Trailer here.
By Domenico Centrone
10' • Belgium • 2019
Synopsis:
The Memory Atlas refers to the unfinished work of Aby Warburg, a mentally ill German art historian.
One extended zoom reveals both his mania for collecting and combining images, and his diaristic writings and thoughts, tracing the border between madness and genius.
A tribute to obsession.
Trailer here.
By Arya Rothe, Christina Hanes, Isabella Rinaldi
89' • India, Romania, Italy, Qatar • 2020
Synopsis:
Once, Somi and her husband were communist rebels fighting for the rights of Indian tribes. However, to safeguard their family's welfare, they surrendered to the government in exchange for marginal compensation and simple accommodation.
Somi is pregnant with her second child. A girl, she hopes. Together with her husband she prepares for this new phase of their parenthood. It means that their son has to go to school, but as an ex-Naxalite that is tough to achieve in contemporary India, where people like them are third-rate citizens. They lack the certificates and an opaque bureaucratic process doesn't help.
Trailer here.