Categorie: LBL 2022

Coping with life after death isn’t easy. Moving on without a cherished loved one is unthinkable. In this revealing film, stories are told from those who have experienced the life-changing loss of a loved one. The voices of those no longer with us are manifested through those who knew them best. This compelling exploration of mortality and the afterlife features an international psychic medium, Ericka Boussarhane, and Second Sight TV’s crime expert, Valarie Shakespeare.

Anaïs, 30, who doesn’t believe in a God and has never considered the afterlife. Ready to live an extraordinary experience, Anaïs accepts to go and meet mediums, in the hope of communicating with her father. Throughout her encounters, the stories of the mediums are told, the beyond and their visions take shape, and the doubt settles in …

An anthropological and travel documentary reveals the secrets of the Saints’ Day in Mexico. Our guide is a Polish anthropologist has been conducting research in San Cristobal de la Casa and Veracruz. It is a new film taken by Malgorzata Szyszka and Artur Socha in the form of travel and anthropological document. The private experience of the authors acquired during travel in combination with the knowledge of Polish anthropologist Witold Jacórzyński shows different world and customs. Owning to Witek and his friends we could know the religious rituals associated with the November 1, which were practiced by both group Mestizos and Indians from Chiapas and Veracruz. Film tells about construction of the altar, preparing special foods, the symbolism of opening the doors of the churches, ringing bells, dancing and singing. Accordance to the beliefs the death is a stage of transition from one life to another and a promise to return to earth. Men return as women, women as men. The Indians stand at least nine different underworld to which the souls of the dead go.

An ancient tale passed down trough generations, sung in a remote village of India prefigures the current story of two women who live far apart: one in the United States, the other in Europe. The documentary explores two different visions of the world’s greatest human mystery: the mystery of death. Linda, USA, has created the most important foundation for cryopreservation in the world: Alcor Life Extension Foundation. Susanne, Sweden, has developed a new ecological burial method, the one preferred by nature, that her company Promessa Organic offers. Swarna is an Indian artist, who draws traditions, legends and current events for the villagers, on a cloth called pattachitra. She is the theme and canvas on which our story unfolds.

Shortly after their mother dies, three sisters need to clear out their childhood home. All of the sorting and preparing the house for sale brings home the finality of their loss, and confronts them with the inevitable farewell to items that hold the memories of their past. Their grieving process, normally simmering below the surface, rears its head at unexpected moments, and is reflected in the way the house and all its belongings are slowly dismantled. What remains is a cinematographic documentary that stimulates the imagination of the audience by focusing on objects rather than people.

Cailleah is used to her father’s eccentric ways. But his act of building a coffin for himself during the current pandemic evokes something powerful and unexpected in her. Suddenly, a conversation about death and dying between daughter and father becomes a surreal possibility.