"Samsara is an extraordinary, multisensory journey through bodies, souls, and space." - Leonardo Goi, The Film Stage
"It is a voyage that probes spiritual and cinematic boundaries to create a deeply moving meditation on what happens after we die and is, at times, a transcendent experience." - Ben Nicholson, Sight and Sound
Winner of a Special Jury Prize at Berlinale 2023, this luminous third feature by filmmaker Lois Patiño is rumination on death and reincarnation, and a spellbinding work of cinema that demands to be seen on the big screen. Beginning in present-day Laos, a young Buddhist visits an elderly woman close to death and reads to her from the Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, as she prepares for her next journey. Patiño invites us to experience the power of collective viewing, and creates a sensorial, otherworldly and meditative cinematic journey.
Please note this screening contains scenes with flashing and flickering images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
