Arissas Multimedia (Brazil), In Vivo Films (France), Floday (Uruguay)
91 minutes / Drama / 2023
With the support of:
▸ Fonds F.I.L.M - Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine
▸ Département de la Charente-Maritime
▸ ANCINE (Fundo Audiovisual)
▸ Programa Ibermedia
▸ Production fund - Région Île-de-France
▸ Next Step - Semaine de la Critique
▸ Full circle lab
Levante | Directed by Lillah Halla
On the eve of a future-defining championship, promising volleyball player SOFIA (17) is faced with an unwanted pregnancy. Seeking an illegal termination, she becomes the target of a fundamentalist group determined to stop her at any cost – but neither Sofia nor those who love her are willing to surrender to the blind fervor of the swarm.
With Ayomi Domenica Dias,Loro Bardot, Grace Passô, Glaucia Vandeveld
Director of photography : Wilssa Esser Sound: Ruben Valdes Editor : Eva Randolph Jeanne Oberson, Lillah Hallah Sound editor : Walidir Xavier Art director : Maíra Mesquita Costume designer : Nicole Dravieux
Lillah Halla is a brazilian filmmaker graduated from EICTV, Cuba. Her short film MENARCA (2020), was one of the ten selected at the Cannes Film Festival Critics' Week, licensed by Canal + and MUBI. Menarca was awarded at TIFF -Tirana (2021), Toulouse (2021), Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (2020) and Curta Cinema (2020). AINDA ASSIM is her first feature film. Her second feature, FLEHMEN, under development, was part of Full Circle Lab Nouvelle Aquitaine and Sam Spiegel Jerusalem Lab in 2021/2022.
Filmography :
▸ Menarche (22', Fiction)
▸ Lowlands (19', fiction, 2018)
▸ If I can't dance, this is not my revolution (17', documentary, 2014)
▸ Pincers (15', fiction, 2013)
