BAFF 2025

Adnan being and time

Marie Valentine Regan, Belgium, USA 2025 ⁄ 70' ⁄ ST - OND: EN

A sensitive and radiant portrait of Lebanese poet and painter Etel Adnan. The American filmmaker Marie Valentine Regan captures a vibrant portrait of 96-year-old Lebanese poet and painter Etel Adnan in her final creative moments before she disappeared in 2021. Tenderness and humor mix with her reflections on love, desire, time, and death, set in intimate scenes of daily life - a light-filled flat, a small birthday party, the mountains that haunt her imagination. An ode to joy, self-affirmation, and art as resistance. Marie Valentine Regan schetst een levendig portret van de 96-jarige Adnan in haar laatste creatieve momenten. Tederheid en humor mengen zich met haar reflecties over liefde, verlangen, tijd en dood, in scènes van intiem dagelijks leven. Een ode aan vreugde, zelfbevestiging en kunst als verzet.

In the presence of the director.

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