I , Nirvana
A film by Roger Elarrat
Synopsis
A small village Amazon girl with a curious name suddenly awakes from a coma, which occurred a year prior after a boat accident while spending a holiday in the city. Finding herself at a large hospital in the center of the city and with severe insomnia, Nirvana becomes a popular patient. While in observation, doctors begin to realize that she may be manifesting lapses of consciousness and failures of her perception of reality. Nirvana as well discovers that she may have been to places that do not exist, and may have talked to people who may not be real, as the old hospital manifests itself in many ways for her. With the many patients who died or recovered throughout her coma there, the manifestations of the people, the hospital's own life and the countless objects and places there become extremely real. Nirvana in fear, needs to decide if she is able to leave and run-away or have to remain in the hospital.
A film Directed by Roger Elarrat
Roger Elarrat was born and lives in Belem, Amazon Brazil. He studied journalism, and has worked in cinema, producing in the north of the country, for 19 years. He has directed documentaries and short form live-action and animation content, all having more of a narrative profile. He has directed 3 different TV series, and 3 narrative short films. His productions are centered on fantastic realism, suspense and comedy. In his work he usually creates straightforward narrative stories, but he leaves a space for many possibilities for the audience's interpretations. Elarrat themes are always universal, but through the eyes of characters from the Amazonic world. The Amazon that the director knows very well, is usually revealed through a deconstruction of what the outside audience expects from this Brazilian region. His past works have had a presence in Amazonian festivals such as Pachamama from Acre, Amazonia Doc from Belem and the End from Amapa. "I, Nirvana" is therefore the director's first feature and represents a different perspective of life in the Amazonia.
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