Samsara

Program:

Forma

Year:

2023

Country:

Spain

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

113ʼ

SAMSARA is a story split in two: two continents, two communities, two belief systems, two sets of experiences and inner lives. Between them lies a sensory pathway. In Laos, a young man named Amid is tending to a dying woman. He meets a novice monk, Bee An, and tells him about the Bardo Thodol, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which someone has to read to you. When the woman passes away, the story moves to Tanzania, where a young girl named Juwairiya wakes up to the news that a baby goat has been born. “Life is changing,” Juwairiya's grandmother explains. There is regeneration in the air.

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Lois Patiño

Lois Patiño (Galicia, Spain, 1983), filmmaker and artist, has shown his films at festivals such as Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, New York, Viennale, IDFA, Oberhausen. His most recent works SYCORAX (2021) and THE SOWER OF STARS (2022) have premiered at Cannes Quinzaine and Berlinale Shorts. His two feature films COSTA DA MORTE (2013) and RED MOON TIDE (2020) premiered at Locarno and Berlinale Forum. His last feature SAMSARA will world premiere at Berlinale Encounters (2023). He is currently working on two other films, to be premiered in 2023 and 2024.

Filmography: El sembrador de estrellas (2022), Lúa vermella (2020), Costa da Morte (2013)

Creative team

Director

Lois Patiño

Screenplay

Lois Patiño, Garbiñe Ortega

Camera

Mauro Herce, Jessica Sarah Rinland

Editing

Lois Patiño

Music

Xabier Erkizia