looking she said I forget

Fiction | 00:20 | SWITZERLAND / NETHERLANDS
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY NAOMI PACIFIQUE
IN COPRODUCTION WITH IDLE EYE (NL)
Synopsis

Having just moved to Amsterdam, Lou prepares her new apartment that she will share with her partner, Joel. For now though, Joel is on a trip with an intimate other. Confronted with the complexities of her non-monogamous relationship, Lou shifts her gaze to the rhythms of her new city.

Bio | Filmography

Biography

Naomi Pacifique, Director

Naomi Pacifique is a Swiss-Dutch multi-disciplinary artist. She grew up in Lausanne, Switzerland, and moved to the UK to pursue her multi-disciplinary practice. She graduated from Oxford University with an Mst in Creative Writing and from London Film School with an MA in Filmmaking. Her graduation film, after a room, was awarded the Pardino d’Argento Swiss Life at the 74th edition of Locarno International Film Festival in August 2021, among other awards at International Film Festivals. Across the arts, Naomi’s work interests itself in intimacy and the spaces found there to discover and reinvent both oneself and the environment one is surrounded by. She was part of Berlinale Talents Short Form Station 2022.

Filmography (selection)

after a room, fic, 2021
Falling asleep, doc, 2018
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Actualités

Sortie romande de Laissez-moi

• Dès le 25 octobre au cinéma

Flores del otro Patio candidat aux EFA

• Eligible aux European Film Awards

Laissez-moi en première mondiale à Cannes

• Sélection à l'ACID du Festival de Cannes

Flores del otro Patio & As Sacrificadas sélectionnés à Soleure

• Section Panorama & Eligibles au Prix du Cinéma Suisse

Flores del otro Patio primé à Winterthur

• Prix du Meilleur Film Suisse

Chute primé à Locarno

• Pardino d'Oro | Pardi di Domani

Spectrum

• est sélectionné au programme Alliance 4 Development du Festival de Locarno 2021

Menschenskind !

• Sélections Officielles à Visions du Réel & DOK.fest Münich

Spectrum

• Sélection au Torino Script Lab 2020

Laissez-moi

• Sélections au Village de Coproductions des Arcs 2019 & Atelier Grand Nord 2020

Putin's Witnesses

• Nomination aux European Film Awards

Tempête Silencieuse primé à Locarno

• Pardino d'Argento | Pardi di Domani

Sœurs Jarariju distingué à la Berlinale

• Mention Spéciale du Jury International

Putin's Witnesses

• Sélection Officielle au TIFF 2018
• Grand Prix du Meilleur Documentaire à Karlovy Vary

Je fais où tu me dis distingué à la Berlinale

• Mention Spéciale du Jury des Jeunes