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Petricor
Violena Ampudia
Synopsis
Like a journal page suspended in time, I explore uprooting away from Cuba through film and plants.
Programming
October 28th
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
October 29th
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
October 30th
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
October 31st
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
October 31st
Paris/ Maison de l’Amérique latine / 217 Bd Saint-Germain, 75007 Paris, France
17:30 (GMT+1)
November 1st
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
November 2nd
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
November 2nd
Berkeley/ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) / 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
19:00 (GMT-7)
November 2nd
Barcelona/ Zumzeig Cinema/ C/ de Béjar, 53, 08014 Barcelona, Spain
21:45 (GMT+2)
November 3rd
Cuba/ Festhome/ festhome.com
24h
About the film
Production:
Violena Ampudia
Genre:
Documentary
Languages:
Spanish
Production Companies:
Doc Nomads
Cinematography:
Violena Ampudia
Screenplay:
Violena Ampudia, Kim Elizondo
Editing:
Violena Ampudia
Sound Design:
Aurélien Lebourg
Music:
N/A
Cast:
Aleia Aldana, Alara König, Lu-Vilda König, Violena Ampudia
Festival Track:
Series “Cuban independent cinema: new imaginaries”, Casa de América (Madrid) / Series “Useless Frontiers: Stanzas of the self-referential cinema”, Lens Escuela (Madrid)
About the director
Violena Ampudia
Violena Ampudia is a Cuban filmmaker and actress based in Lisbon. She holds a degree in Performing Arts from the Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA) in Havana and a degree in Documentary Filmmaking from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. In 2022 she completed a Master's Degree in Documentary Filmmaking at Doc Nomads, an itinerant program between Portugal, Hungary and Belgium. Her work explores interpersonal relationships, encounters and growth processes. Her films have been selected for festivals such as Jihlava IDFF (Czech Republic), Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse and Poitiers (France), Belo Horizonte and Curta Kinoforum (Brazil), and Doc Buenos Aires (Argentina). She is currently a member of the analog film collective Laboratório da Cave.
