Blink in the Desert

Directed by
2021

Malice comes up abruptly. As if it is blinking. Capricious like a flapping insect. One day a young hermit finds a winged insect and crushes it out of disgust. Meanwhile, the elephant sees the whole situation but says nothing. From that day on, the boy is chased by shadows of the winged insects.

For the film’s inclusive use of animated characters of humans, animals, and insects told through poetic visual composition and sound. With almost no dialogue, Blink in the Desert reflects on human aggression and indifference adopted to destroy what we do not know or understand and giving rise to agony on all sides. The film is an internal call for peace and progress, empathy and compassion, and the accommodation of differences.

Festivals

The two Ecumenical Juries in Oberhausen awarded their prizes to "Odorless Blue Flowers Awake Prematurely" by Panos Aprahamian (International Competition) and to "37" by Meshy Koplevitch (International Online Competition). The Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen went to "Weathering Heights" by Hannah Wiker Wikström, the Grand Online Prize to "Ava mocoi, os gêmeos" by Luiza Calagian and Vinicius Toro.

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