We are happy to welcome Gustavo de Mattos Jahn and Anna Dubosc with their beautiful film, which premiered at FID Marseille in 2025, where it was awarded the prestigious George de Beauregard National Award.

A train journey through Italy—slow, gentle, summery. From Milan to Venice, via Rome, Lecce, Bari. Embracing the rhythm of the train, the film takes its time at each stop, lulled by the back-and-forth of sleep, blurring its static frames with fleeting views through the windows. The travelling couple has embarked on the adventure of making a film together. It will be a journey through the distance which, despite the path they share, separates them. Between the words Anna works with and the images Gustavo handles, there are the same fragile bridges and deep fissures that can exist between two people—or even between two moments in the life of the same person.

From Anna’s art, the film inherits its division into poems or tales, which could just as well be entries in a private diary or chapters of a novel. From Gustavo’s, it inherits his loving struggle with Anna’s art—that Durassian lesson which teaches that images often prevent us from fully hearing the text, and that one needs calm, softened, even blurred images that allow the words to come through. At a certain point, we begin to see through the eyes of the writer and hear the voice of the filmmaker. The grain of the 16mm film, which Anna was initially wary of, ends up matching the tone and frugal economy of that summer—a season made of modest dinners of wine, bread and sardines. Gustavo, for his part, will wonder aloud—quoting Jane Sautière—about an elusive “ideal place of the subjective camera: the dream, the filmmaker and the viewer merged into one and the same place.” (Manuel Asín)