Tin Dirdamal

Death in Arizona is a futuristic documentary of lost love and a tale of a dying civilization. It is an autobiographical portrayal of a man who returns to his lost love’s empty apartment in pursuit of answers. The distant voices of a tribe in Arizona that survived a meteorite strike make their way into the third story apartment of this obscure Bolivian city.

Tells the story of Maria, a Central American immigrant who is forced to leave her family in search for a better life. On her way to the United States, she is forced to cross Mexico where she experiences a nightmare.

When filmmaker Efthymia Zymvragaki fled her native island of Crete as a young adult, she hoped to leave her violent childhood behind her. But in Spain, her memories are reawakened when a man asks her to make a film about him and his violence.

After a devastating discovery about the fate of a friend now confined to a mental institution, the director and his young daughter set out on a 1700-kilometre train journey from the north to the south of Vietnam, hoping to regain harmony and find answers to some questions along the way.

A film by Tin dirdamal

This film exists outside of time, neither in the future nor the past. A mysterious sound echoes from a house to the south, a sound powerful enough to ignite a river. Knives lie waiting on the table. A man passes by the window, having walked for days without rest. In one pocket, he carries soil from his birthplace; in the other, earth from the destination he can never return from. His journey leads him somewhere from which there is no return.

An elegy for a non-existent country explores the hypothesis that breaking ties with the past can be the path to a new identity. Through an inventive narrative and across temporal distance, it connects a Vietnamese-speaking Kosovan woman and an American soldier in Vietnam, who are surprised by a new experience with language that affects their memory and their reading of the world and relationships.