Program

On a dust of stars,
Are drawn old and dark memories.
Either I condemn you,
Or I free you from your agony.
The film is a letter to a childhood encounter, through which I answer his request for forgiveness. It is a journey through my memories, investigating the complexity of human nature. The tug of war between his sick desires and his strong will to repent.
Can we feel pity towards evil ?

Wafa Lazhari is a Tunisian architect, artist and filmmaker.
Her artistic practice is born from the conceptual approach she experimented during her architectural studies. Mixing real footage and 3D animation, she explores the fragile limit that separates the real from the illusory. The in-between merging two gaps that seemingly nothing connects.
The invisible bond that intertwines them and justifies them.
She was part of several group exhibitions including Jaou Tunis, Gabes Cinema Fen and Dreamcity. She was also part of the Young Masters Program and her work has also been exhibited in Kiff el kef.
She was part of the 2022 edition of the METHEXIS program and the Medfilm talents and her film was among the selection Sguardi dal Futuro and was screened during the Medfilm festival in Rome, Italy.

Completing high school in southern Austria, she ventured to Vienna’s University of Applied Arts to study graphic design. A pivotal year abroad in Portugal awakened her profound fascination with film, animation, and the dynamic world of moving images.

Her artistic journey thrives on the seamless interplay of color and form, crafting a synesthetic visual vocabulary that forms the bedrock of her creative expression. She delves into the intricacies of the human experience, exploring the profound, intangible aspects of life, love, death, and the multifaceted web of connections that unite humanity. Her art becomes a vessel for the unspoken, the subtle, and the universal, speaking to the very essence of what i

My shortfilm “echoes of grief” can be seen as my debut at animation and filmmaking. It is my graduation project at the University for applied arts in Vienna and the result of a 2 year-long process of exploring different media, trial and error, creation and subsequent destruction, until I finally found a method to join many different digital tools together and create a new form of animation.

It talks about a very personal and yet universal story of grief and mourning. I see it as a filmic reappraisal of the death of a loved one, laying out the transformative potential a fatal loss can hold. It depicts a journey through realms of shock, denial, search and finally, transformation and integration.
Through my work, I want to generate visibility for the often stigmatized topics of loss and grief and sensitize a broader public for the inner worlds of a grieving person. Rather than repressing the ubiquitous nature of death, we should collectively celebrate life and approach grieving individuals with empathy and interest, rather than avoidance and fear.

Description: How can a person just two generations behind you leave no trace of existence? And yet brand yourself with the fear of heredity. Yngve is a father and grandfather that no one is allowed to talk about. Daughter and granddaughter want to find answers how to avoid being forgotten; to become like him. The legacy of mental illness carries the weight of invisible madness.

Brief bio about the author: The Devil lives in Torshälla is Hannah Murphys first short film. The project was made as a student at Nordiska Filmskolan in Sweden (class of 2023) in collaboration with Noel Nillsson in the Art Department of the same instituiton. The project started as a way to explore memories that arent hers but something that she has connection to. A way to find answers and uncover generational fears that are left unspoken until asked.