Gloria Kurnik
Gloria Kurnik is a visual storyteller and filmmaker. In her work, mostly inspired by the destinations she travels to, she tries to highlighting the similarities underneath our apparent differences. Gloria’s first short, “Confined,” won the “India Is” Film Challenge 2013, while “Spinning a Yarn?” won the Grand Prize during the Faces of Wisdom Short Film Competition 2014 in Finland. She's the Grand Prize Winner (Achievement Award) of the CinemadaMare 2015 travelling film campus and festival in Italy.
Films
- Here Cometh the Moon8'7"
Production: PL/IT 2016
Love is a net that traps the mind but she’s not the only one. Vittoria, the protagonist, learned to make fishing nets as a very young girl and now – from the perspective of old age – she is trying to tell us that we all swim in a sea that is full of them. These nets are the social norms, the toxic relationships, and our own preconceptions, among other things. How do they determine our lives? Where do we go when we need to gasp for air? Gloria Kurnik and Giulia Di Battista have made a highly original and philosophically rich documentary film.
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