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Rusalki, o Mistério das Águas

In Slavic mythology, Rusalki are believed to be the spirits of young women who drowned in rivers or lakes. Their characteristics are similar to those of water nymphs, mermaids, and succubi. Rusalki tells the story of Leon, a historian who travels to remote cities to finish his thesis on historical places. Leon meets Liz, a widow who is struggling to cope with the recent disappearance of her only son. Liz allows Leon to spend a few nights at her house. However, unusual things begin to happen.

Rusalki, o Mistério das Águas

NR 2018
Encore

The audience is consensually prompted to gaze into the small, condensed universe of someone experiencing a fascinatingly destructive egomania. Here, they recognize behavior once thought to be beyond eccentric, yet today somehow normalized - perhaps sprouting from a modern culture of self-centered ideology? We witness in this character the downfall of self-idolatry; the frequent cause and occasional side effect of pathological narcissism; self-hatred. The struggle between loving oneself more than anything, while simultaneously desiring perfection, threatens to upend the film's eerie dreamworld. However, a brief brush with self-awareness only serves to solidify the character's self-obsession. An existential crisis half-realized - drowned in the shallow waters of Narcissus' well.

Encore

NR 2018
Person Being/in the Nature of a Human

Ema Nudar Umanu is the story of the dream of a woman who has died told to a man born from a duck's egg in a jungle far from anything. It is the story of a couple forced together, coming to realise that what they each wish for is to be one another. It is a story about the point at which life is death, love is loneliness, man is woman and dream is reality. Five weeks from initial concept to shot and made on the barest of budgets, the film is an unprecedented undertaking that brings to life a dream from beyond the grave. Ema Nudar Umanu is a romance of liberty, draped in tragedy, comic and absurd.

Person Being/in the Nature of a Human

NR 2018
Pretend to be Serious

Old man Chen picked up his granddaughter from school. On the way, he sighed after seeing the notice on the bulletin board that the display of fireworks and firecrackers was prohibited. He hadn't performed the puppets in public for several years... When Old Man Chen played the puppets at home, his granddaughter watched quietly. When I arrived at an iron can, I opened it to play, but accidentally caused a flame. The iron can exploded... During the explosion, Old Man Chen and his granddaughter exchanged bodies quietly. Nowadays, the vicissitudes of appearance, Chen Jingjing hides a girl's heart, and Chen Jingjing, who is vicissitudes of life, is an old man inside her feet... A series of chain reactions took place, and a ridiculous story was officially staged in this quiet village.

Pretend to be Serious

NR 2018