Valentina Shasivari

In a Swiss mountain village, hikers head out, a fountain splashes reassuringly and a churchwarden prepares a mass. Debut director Valentina Shasivari evokes the calm of this serene landscape with tightly framed shots in contrast-rich black-and-white.

Somewhere in Switzerland, sometime in the last century. A conversation between mother and daughter. The landscape of a vacation slowly blurs into a topography of memory. A film about the fragmentary process of remembering and the state of being in the world, unsettling and surreal.