Samsara

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Berlin Film Festival award winner Lois Patiño’s film transports us to magical places in Laos and Zanzibar, where the visible and the invisible merge.

Patiño’s film envelops us in a work of collective meditation and cinematic reincarnation. We observe the daily rituals of a Buddhist temple in Laos and a seaweed farm in Zanzibar, captured on 16mm with an ethnographic eye (and ear) for detail. Infused with sonic wonders, the spiritual becomes profoundly sensorial; at one point we’re even invited to enjoy Samsara’s uniquely transformative spaces with our eyes closed.

Transcendental.

U rating

This film is certified

Contains references to death, brief bloody images. This film contains flickering or flashing lights that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy