Close Enough
by Valeria Barabas
Moldova | 2016 | 80 min | Completed
Synopsis
How to perceive your own body? How to accept your own being? The film investigates states of depression, capturing the performative confidential process of confession, openess to self, to bodyacceptance, through re-creating the ritual of quasi-self-baptising. The film reveals an intimate, close enough self-exploration of a 33 years woman – Valeria, confronting with her own frustrations and fears, in search for acceptance. “Aproape, destul de” (Close Enough) was filmed on phone by film director in a forbiden for filming space, during the balneological procedure at the soviet rehabilitation sanatorium “The white watter lily” in Cahul, Republic of Moldova, catching hidden moments from recovery baths at Soviet sanatorium.
Biography
Screenings
- Brukenthal Museum of Contemporary Art, Sibiu, Romania
- International Moving Film Festival Khouzestan, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Semi-finalist, 2020
- Direct Monthly Online Film Festival, Official Selection 2021
- Luleå International Film Festival, Sweden, Finalist 2021
- Stockholm City Film Festival, Sweden, Finalist 2021
- Imaginary Mind Film Contest, Official Selecion 2021
- Sweden Film Awards, Semi-Finalist 2021
- Moscow International Experimetnal Film Festival (MIEFF, 2021), Glazok on-line program, Moscova, Rusia
- Toronto International Women Film Festival, Official Selecion, 2021
- Essex DocFest, United Kigdom, Official Selecion, 2021
- Berlin 180, Germania, Semi-finalist, 2021