Author: Leo

‘You’re a remarkable girl.‘
18Feb By LeoNo Comments
Review

‘You’re a remarkable girl.‘

A hot summer day, a crack in the asphalt and an unexpected encounter. ‘Bianca, your father and Cruz want to do things differently.‘ ‘Skip the intro, Mom.‘ ‘They think you're out of control.‘ ‘I'm... I'm not out of control.‘ One morning at the breakfast table, her mother tells her that her father and his new girlfriend Cruz think it would be more practical if she visited them every other weekend instead of every weekend. For 13-year-old Bianca, this is not the first time she has felt misunderstood — and, above all, unseen — by her family. Her parents have been separated for some time, and while her mother thinks she needs a ‘manual,‘ she pays much more attention to Bianca's nine-year-old brother Alan, who has a heart condition. Bianca, however, is just looking for stability and s...
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It’s Time
13Feb By Leo, Liv Heyden, Liv Thastum, Hannah Everitt and Anouk SegebartNo Comments
Background, General, Review

It’s Time

A rustling sound. At first very quiet, barely distinguishable from the wind, then growing louder and louder, hissing and roaring. A flickering, bright light flashes on and off, clacking and clicking — until finally, slowly, a heavy hatch opens and thick steam hisses into the evening sky. ‘Do you think time travel is real?‘ The time machine is the mystery that gives this year's Kplus opening film, A Fabulosa Máquina do Tempo, its title. From the perspective of 10-year-old Manuellinha and her friends, the film explores questions about the past and future, among other things, and what it actually means to grow up. After watching the film, we also took a closer look at these questions and collected various impressions as brief texts, which we would like to share with you here. At the...
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