Dialogue with director Adebukola Bodunrin and writer Ezra Claytan Daniels
MONOGRAPH SHORTS PROGRAM
A Refocus Film Festival Short Film Block
Featured still from WE ARE NOT ALONE
WE ARE NOT ALONE
(2024, Canada, 11 min.) Dir. Adebukola Bodunrin
Adapted from a comic of the same name, a reclusive young Nigerian immigrant becomes convinced that a mysterious object approaching Earth’s orbit holds the key to her loneliness.
DONA BEATRIZ ÑSÎMBA VITA
(2024, Brazil, 20 min.) Dir. Catapreta
Kimpa Vita fulfills the prophetic mission of leading her people in a racist and unequal society. Set in contemporary Brazil and inspired by the true story of Kimpa Vita, a 17th-century Congolese religious leader.
AMMA KI KATHA
(2023, India, 21 min.) Dir. Nehal Vyas
Through retellings of myth and expressionistic settings, Nehal Vyas grapples with the chasms between the India she was raised to love and the internal challenges the country faces today.
C'EST PAS MOI
(2024, France, 41 min.) Dir. Leos Carax
An homage to late period Godard, this free-format film is a self-portrait which revisits more than 40 years of Leos Carax's filmography and questions the major stages of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.