28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Over the Forest
synopsis
Hortence has been pregnant four times in her life and she is a mother of seven children. She takes good care of all of them, but four of them are wooden statuettes. According to voodoo, which counts as an official religion in Benin, twins dispose of a strange mystical power, which bestows on them almost a divine status.“Twins are reincarnation of the gods on Earth. They come into the world with an inexplicable mystical force.”
biography
Jacopo Marzi (* 1994) acquired his education in film studies at the European Institute of Design (Instituto Europeo di Design) in Milan. He worked as an editor and director for Sky Italy. Then he directed a short documentary in collaboration with National Geographic. His first feature film Hymn from the Hive (2021) premiered at Astra film festival in Romania last year.more about film
| director: | Jacopo Marzi |
| producer: | Jacopo Marzi |
| photography: | Davide Bertuccio, Jacopo Marzi |
| editing: | Jacopo Marzi |
| music: | Serigne Maguette |
| sound design: | Lorenzo Sattin |
