Chiara Malta : 2019
On Christmas Day 1989, young Federica suffers her first epileptic seizure while she's watching the trial and execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena on television with her family. Since childhood, her only passion was cinema, and one film in particular played an important role: Hal Hartley's 'Simple Men', in which Romanian actor Elina Löwensohn has an onscreen seizure. For Federica, it was a critical moment of reflection and connection. Years later, Federica has the opportunity to make a film in Bucharest about the life of her long-time icon. But the real Elina is much different from the one in Federica's imagination and, very quickly, the true characters of both the actor and the director are revealed. Seeing through a new lens, Federica's mind becomes clouded and her ideas for the film less clear. Mid-production, she has a fit of epilepsy, and, with her vision blurred, the faint lines between life and art fade entirely. Chiara Malta's fiction feature debut premiered in the Discovery section at Toronto International Film Festival 2019.
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