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Like a Sick Yellow

Norika Sefa
Kosovo
23’ 11”

An immersion into Nora’s memory, where realities merge, the bad and beautiful intertwine until it’s all mingled and something else is formed. A tragedy foretold.

How do we contemplate and discuss moments in a woman’s domestic life, knowing that her fate will be thrown into the maelstrom of capital-H History? Using repetition as a mechanism to fix liminal memories — a walk from the front door to the gate, a table full of appetizers awaiting guests, an uncle smothering his nephew — Norika Sefa interrogates both the traditional female gender role and the social rituals associated with it (wherein celebrations, like the one in the film, are seen as a kind of ultimate event. Like a Sick Yellow also looks at how home movies seem to seal disparate slices of life in a strange kind of interstitial space, eliciting the need for a narrative entity that can fully reveal the meaning behind the images we witness. (Flavia Dima)

Screening date and location

September 25th, 8:30 PM, Cinema Elvire Popesco

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Awards & Festivals

Norika Sefa

Norika Sefa is a filmmaker from Kosovo. She holds a master degree from FAMU in Prague. Norika is best known for her 2021 debut film Looking for Venera, which established her as an emerging talent with a very distinguished voice. The film won and was nominated for many prestigious awards, it also represented Kosovo for the Oscars. Norika is a writer/director, who has also produced and edited her own work. Invitations brought Norika across different arts and cultural institutions, to talk about her distinctive cinematic approach and especially working in the small film industry, such as in Kosovo. She’s a member of the European Film Academy.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • Director: Norika Sefa
  • Screenplay: Norika Sefa
  • Sound Design: Labinot Sponca
  • Editor: Stefan Stabenow, Norika Sefa
  • Composer: Nuno Pinto
  • Narration: Leonora Sefa, Rozafa Çelaj, Krenare Rugova, Labinot Sponca, Norika Sefa
  • Produced by: Mentor Shala
  • Co-producers: Besnik Krapi, Norika Sefa

Screens

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