WALK WITH ME

Statement-ul regizorului:
This first collaboration is an intuitive exploration of what it means to be a child, at the age where reality begins to reveal to be a bit different than what you expected. The film is seen from a Ugandan child’s point of view, but has no ethnic focus, it's a universal poetic exploration of childhood, and is meant to be seen with an open mind and curiosity of the joy of seeing, dancing and playing. (Peter Muhumuza Tukei & Johan Oettinger)

Comentariul curatorului:
"Imagination serves both as an escapist and learning mechanism in WALK WITH ME. In rich tones of purple and inhabited by bizarre creatures assembled at random from different doll parts, the universe created by the protagonist is an ante-chamber of maturity. Faced for the first time with the feeling of helplessness and death’s apparent lack of sense, when one of her animals falls to its death, the girl lives the experience only in her inner world. But instead of beginning to see the grotesque in the world, she keeps her childlike openness, of someone who hasn’t learned the meaning of fear. Instead of being a film about death, Walk with Me is a film about how to face life. In the girl's words, "we have to get up"! (Diana Mereoiu, BIEFF)