How a River Is Born

Filmstill How a River is Born

How a River Is Born

Como nasce um rio
Luma Flôres
International Competition Animated Film
Animated Film
Brazil
2025
8 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None
German premiere

The dew drips promisingly from the leaves. Ayla wakes up in a beautifully flowering, lush landscape. A new mountain range arises in the distance. The summits: a smiling woman’s head. Ayla sets out towards it. The hills are the supportive nipples, the downy hair on the forearms is the grass she tenderly strokes with her fingers. When she sees a small dense forest on the horizon, she knows where she must go to find the ultimate fulfilment.
Luma Flôres shows Ayla’s self-exploration as an exquisite sensual and tender journey in intense colours. The discovery of her own body and lust are intertwined with the discovery of another, also female body. The intense sensuality remains metaphorical but vivid to the end – for example, when Ayla discovers her lover’s lap as a natural fountain in which she first dips her fingers and then her whole head and body. When the two are at last united in the water and sleep with each other, the animation changes from concrete representation to abstraction – which in turn bursts in the sky like fireworks. Flôres resolves her metaphorical dance only in the final moments of the film: The two women kiss, drift on the water. The fine art of love, but also the simplest, most natural thing in the world.


Marie Ketzscher

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28.10.
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Director
Luma Flôres
Script
Luma Flôres
Cinematographer
Maíra Moura Miranda
Editor
Karol Azevedo
Producer
Flávia Santana
Sound
Andrea Martins
Sound Design
Andrea Martins
Animation
Bia Peres, Camila Vianna, Fernanda Costa, Janaína Zanusso, Larissa Rangel, Mateus Di Mambro, Kelvin Lima, Ambrósio Pentú, Atmo, Guilherme Zabu, Henrique Ferreira, Louise Bonne, Sofia Travassos
Animation Technique
2D Digital

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Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award