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Crossing the labyrinth of Olivia’s psyche. She is an unfortunate actress who is preparing to act in Chekov’s The Seagull. When the spectacle begins to take shape, Olivia and her companion Serge, who had met years before at rehearsals for the Theatre du Soleil, discover that she is pregnant. The film has another twist when what appears to be a set turns out to be real life. Or is the other way around? This investigation of the creative process invites us to question what is real, what is imaginary and what we celebrate and sacrifice in life.
Petra Costa, Lea Glob
Costa was born in Belo Horizonte. She graduated in anthropology from Columbia and did a master’s in social psychology at LSE. She directed the short Undertow Eyes (2009), winner of best short film at the Rio Film Festival, and the feature film Elena (2012). Glob graduated from the Danish National School of Cinema with the short Meeting My Father (2011). She developed the multimedia project Human Female Sexuality (2013). This is her first feature.
