PINK DOLPHIN

Boto

France, Brasil| 2024 | 79 min | col.

A voice begins to tell a story. It is an ancient Amazonian legend about a supernatural creature that lives in the river and persecutes women who bathe in its waters during menstruation. Suddenly, the narrator is interrupted: he no longer remembers how the story ends. He then decides to go back to that remote village and recover the thread of the story. It is the beginning of a dreamlike and suspended, poetic and theoretical journey in which cinema questions the possibility and difficulty of telling stories as well as of creating the right words and images that can give them substance. The legend becomes more and more complex as the stories multiply, letting its deepest meaning emerge: an ancient story that becomes an allegory and constantly changes form until it reveals how an ancestral vision of the female body is still alive and how the latter is always in harm’s way. (d.d.)