madonnas
taranto, italy 2024
13-year-old Marta lives in taranto vecchia, a little island in southern Italy. in the limited space of her hometown, located right next to a steel factory, global and personal issues densify like under a magnifying glass.
each realisation raises new doubts. what kind of woman do you want to be? which madonna do you believe in? why is my grandmother sick? and who can I even believe? her innocent perspective forces us to realise how cruel the wrongs are, that we already got so used to.
isadora
guadalajara, mexico 2024
two friends in their everyday lives defined by sexism and unequal opportunities. they dance between pessimism and hedonism, but in the end only find a way out of the chaos in excess. how privileged is your weltschmerz? how many truths can coexist simultaneously?
isadora plays with danger because it is exciting. beatrix recognizes it in everything that surrounds her. only her ignorance, she doesn't see. they both dance on a knife's edge - where risk and fun are interdependent and complementary but in the end it's still an either - or question: risk or fun?
and then good turns into bad, pleasure becomes addiction. they have looked the other way for so long, nothing can be changed anymore. taking things too far is the only way to deal with them they know - until one of them dies.
liliths daughters
berlin, germany 2022
'lilith's daughters' is a short film about the strength and insecurity of teenage girls. between too much and not enough, prudish and slutty, crazy and boring, they can't seem to do anything right. the only way out is to team up with the right ones.
the story between raquel, her twin sister martha and the narrator nina takes place exactly in this uncertainty. between the fear of falling for the wrong guy and the reflex to judge others as whores before they judge you. in the end, friendship triumphs over instilled competition among women.
the demonization of women's independence has always been part of our culture. in the film we learn about lilith, the first wife of adam, who left the garden of eden because she would not submit to him. since then, she is known as the demoness of the night.