Sceneggiatura, fotografia / Screenplay, Photography: Paula Ďurinová Montaggio / Editing: Paula Ďurinová, Deniz Şimşek Musica / Music: Petra Hermanova Suono / Sound: Agnese Menguzzato, Paula Ďurinová Produzione, distribuzione internazionale / Produced by, World Sales: guča films Con il sostegno di / Supported by: Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Slovak Arts Council, Literary Fund of Slovakia, Universität der Künste Berlin
From the sea, through dark caverns, to volcanic deserts, Lapilli is a personal reckoning that dives deep into hard matter. Traversing through rocky landscapes, director Paula Ďurinová deals with the sudden loss of her grandparents. An unexpected disappearance uncovers a new horizon. Phases of grief unfold in this emerging ecosystem, offering a perspective full of empathy for minerals and life that is no more.
“My grandparents passed away unexpectedly during the pandemic … Shortly after their passing, I became obsessed with the story of the once-fourth-largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea, which almost disappeared in our lifetime. Images of rocks, stones and rocky valleys began to appear in my mind. I could not consciously say why, but I decided to follow my intuition and visit some rocky places. Perhaps subconsciously I knew that this had something to do with my grief.” (P. Ďurinová)
Paula Ďurinová
Paula Ďurinová was born in 1987 in Žilina, Slovakia. She is a filmmaker, visual artist, and writer based in Berlin. She studied narrative and experimental film at the Universität der Künste Berlin and worked as artistic director and curator of ACUD Galerie in Berlin. Her short films were presented at Sarajevo IFF, Jihlava IDFF, One World Prague and CinéDOC Tbilisi. Lapilli, her feature-length debut, premiered at the Karlovy Vary FF in 2024, in the “Proxima Competition” section.
2016 Rozhovory (Interviews) cm / sf doc. 2018 Passing cm / sf doc. 2023 Konštanta – rozlúčka s bytom (Constant – an Homage to the Apartment) cm / sf doc. 2024 Lapilli doc.
