With a truly unique style, Dona Beatriz Nsimba Vita reimagines the circularity of myth, linking spaces and stories in a short film that is as visually captivating as it is intellectually challenging. The alchemy of the main character, who multiplies dramatically, inspires a film that is difficult to decipher, yet invites us into its plot through multiple senses: the exquisite visual work is aligned with rigorous sound research. Red dogs on guard, restless macaws, ghosts invading homes, a secretly hidden ancestral recipe, the end of the world, its rebirth… In this alchemical gathering, the imaginative work of the artist and filmmaker Catapreta constructs a poetic, not at all allegorical universe that draws connections with reality and especially proposes a strange suspension with cinema in the evidence of the world. The committee also congratulates the aesthetic exploration and historical research that gives shape to Dona Beatriz Nsimba Vita.
Azucena Losana, Fabio Rodrigues Filho e Kênia Freitas
