The Cartographer's Daughter
Finishing her father's last map, a young woman finds that the mountains on the paper answer back.
BulgariaMira's father drew the Rhodope mountains by hand for fifty years. He died leaving one sheet unfinished, with a valley blank in the middle of it.
She sits down to complete it, mostly because the blank space bothers her. The first line she inks is a footpath, and the next morning there is a footpath outside her window where there was none.
After that she works carefully. Rivers move when she moves them. A ridge she shades too heavily throws the village into shadow for a day. And in the blank valley, stroke by stroke, a settlement she has never heard of begins to appear, with people in it who behave as though they have been waiting a long time for someone to finish the drawing.
Candlelight, paper, ink and weather. A fantasy drama about grief, about what a parent leaves half-done, and about how much of a landscape is simply what somebody decided to put on a map.
- Warsaw Glitch PremiereYes
- Seeking distributionYes
- Filmmaker at the festivalYes
- Open to panel talksYes