SamsaraU
Amidst the Buddhist temples of Laos, a young man reads a sacred text to a dying woman. This text serves as a guide for finding one’s way through the afterlife. When the woman passes away, her spirit moves toward reincarnation in its next body. Experimental filmmaker Lois Patiño takes us on an immersive and sensory journey across continents via the cosmos in this meditative and transcendent examination of life after death.
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival.
Warning: this film contains flickering or flashing lights that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy.
Reviews
‘Transcendent and transformative…its feels like new cinematic ground is being broken before our eyes, and the impact is exponentially increased if experienced with people in the dark of the cinema’
★★★★★
David Jenkins, Little White Lies
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We showed Samsara between February 16, 2024 and February 22, 2024.
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