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Film Info

Spain, Germany 2022 | 83 min. Director: Efthymia Zymvragaki
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Co-Production Company

ThurnFilm GmbH
Neven-DuMont-Str. 14
50667 Köln

Categories

Documentary

Light Falls Vertical

Synopsis

When filmmaker Efthymia Zymvragaki fled her native island of Crete as a young adult, she hoped to leave her violent childhood behind her. But in Spain, her memories are reawakened when a man asks her to make a film about him and his violence.
The encounters with Ernesto and his alter ego Juan, the candid conversations about the violent acts he has committed and the scenes in which he or actors reenact parts of his autobiography offer unprecedented insight into the nature of a perpetrator – in this case, one who is painfully self-aware. At the same time, the filmmaker relives her own past.
The calm, almost whispered commentary and the poetic, cinematic shots of sun-drenched landscapes, details of flowers and the sea – in which Zymvragaki’s father was eventually to die – leave room for your own contemplations. As well as the impact and causes of violence, the film also deals with identity and the longing for a home. [35 IDFA]

Cast & Crew

Festivals/awards

among others:
2022
35 IDFA
38 DOK.fest Munich
2023
DOCS BARCELONA
ASTRA FF Sibiu, Romania
16 this human world – International Human Rights Film Festival
shortlisted 36 EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS

Co-Production Company

ThurnFilm GmbH
Neven-DuMont-Str. 14
50667 Köln

Cast & Crew

Efthymia Zymvragaki
 Efthymia Zymvragaki
 Tin Dirdamal
 Pablo Cosco, Anna M. Bofarull
 Bojan Palikuca
Giorgos Xylouris

Categories

Documentary
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