Guaxuma

A short animation about yourself. A land, a family, the childhood in nature, near the ocean, the best friend like reflection of yourself and the end of a splendid webb of pieces from past like a sort of end of innocence. Photos, sand, stop motion, an island and two girls. The voice of one of them in a sort of testimony about a golden age. All is seductive and touching. Because the great gift of this film is to suggest be, in profound sense, about the viewer who see it.

Tayra and I grew up on a beach in the north east of Brazil. We were inseparable. The sea breeze brings me back happy memories, all beautifully passionate and dramatic, nostalgic... Tayra and I grew up on a beach in northeast. We were inseparable. The sea breeze brings me happy memories...

What a cute animation by Nara Normande, about her own childhood, I imagine, with her friendships in the Maceió neighborhood, beautiful and sad, what a pity... A mega different animation, stop motion as if it were wet sand, passionate, origami of paper, narration by the director and screenwriter herself, all beautifully passionate and dramatic, nostalgic...