Identity and Transit Document No.4

synopsis

ID photographs, wedding footage, a few snapshots, intimate details and a Komsomol membership booklet: silent traces of an Uzbek woman who travelled the corridors of the Eastern Bloc – from Tashkent to Odesa, from Odesa to Havana. Behind these identity documents, three generations of women emerge from an oppressive silence, bound by the experience of exile and intimate reflections on the ties between generations.

“A central inquiry in this film is how this mother-daughter relationship, intimate and therefore made of micropolitical gestures, is traversed by the macro-gesture, by the power plays and hostility of the system that contains them.” — Rocío Salima

biography

Rocío Salima is a Cuban director and editor who graduated in film directing from the University of the Arts (ISA) and is currently studying editing at the International Film and Television School (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Through archival material, she challenges historical narratives about gender and representation. Her directorial work includes The Summer Dear Died (2024) and The Custom (2025).

film details

director:	Rocío Salima
cast:	Ana Isabel Martínez Dejkanova
producer:	Francisco Vera Buzolic
script:	Rocío Salima
photography:	Rocío Salima
editing:	Rocío Salima
sound design:	Cecilia Pedroza

contact

Rocío Salima
salimarocio@gmail.com