New release
Samsara
Non-professional actors bring to life a playful and meditative exploration on the Buddhist cycle of life.
Director: Lois Patino
Cast includes: N/A
112 mins / 2023 / Spain, subtitles
In the temples of Laos, teenage monks accompany a soul in transit from one body to another through the bardo. A luminous and sonorous journey leads to reincarnate on the beaches of Zanzibar, where groups of women work in seaweed farms. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s influence can be traced in Spanish film-maker Lois Patiño’s whimsical meditation on the Buddhist cycle of life.
This film playfully invites you to contemplate death and is a delicate docu-realist diptych spectacle using nonprofessional actors, about the Buddhist concept of “Samsara”, the cycle of birth, death and life, and the transmigration of souls.
Whether you are agnostic or a believer, join us in for a dose of contemplation and Sunday morning worship of the cinematic kind. (Also screening on Thursday 15 August.)
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival.
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