Millenium Festival 26.03 – 06.04, 2023

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THE PLACES FROM WHICH WE ARE ABSENT

BelgianFilms

02.04 / 17:00

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I’ve been filming my friend Kante, Guinean by origin and Polish by adoption, a night worker in the suburbs of London with a head full of an Africa that he left many years ago. And me, a low-cost cosmopolitan, perpetually searching for a better place in Western Europe, visiting my mother who had fallen ill with cancer in Poland. My camera keeps track of my and Kante’s fears of an uncertain future, our daily resourcefulness, and friendship – a remedy for our frustrations and setbacks.

 

Credits

Director:

Marta Kucza

Production:

Matière Première, Cristal Films (Co-production: AJC! et GSARA)

Year:

2023

Duration:

67

min

Country:

Belgium

Language:

French – Polish – English

Subtitles:

FR, EN

Director's Biography

Marta Kucza was born in 1981 in Poland. She graduated from African Studies at the University of Warsaw and participated in Sound/Image/Culture in Brussels, an interdisciplinary programme combining art, documentary film and anthropology. Her first film, the short essay film Reconstructing Sudan (2011), was screened at, among others, the Jean Rouch Festival in Paris. The Places From Which We Are Absent is her first feature-length documentary film.

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