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Żafżifa

12
1 hours 39 mins
English, Maltese with English subtitles
€8 | €7

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Dati
Il-Ġimgħa, 19 ta' Ġunju 2026, Mill-19:00 sal-20:30
Sessjoni ta’ mistoqsijiet u tweġibiet ma’ Pete u l-moderatriċi Emma Mattei se tkun preċeduta mill-wiri ta’ Żafżifa.

Miġbud fuq film ta’ 16mm b’sets u lokazzjonijiet miftuħa u atturi mhux professjonisti, Żafżifa jiżvolġi bħala vjaġġ emozzjonali ta’ xenqa, xettiċiżmu u tama. L-istejjer, iffurmati minn laqgħat reali tal-ħajja, jibqgħu jinbnew kontinwament sakemm jilħqu kollass arkitettoniku u emozzjonali.

Ambjentat f’raħal zgħir biswit il-baħar, il-film ipinġi ritratt ta’ raġel mitluf f’dinja ta’ konkos u azzar, sa ma jiskopri li sħabu sfruttaw l-ekonomija li qed tinbidel u komplew b’ħajjithom. Imtaqqal minn passat misterjuż, huwa jeħles lilu nnifsu mill-progress li jinstab fiħ.

Tul il-film, ħbieb u għedewwa jintraċċaw miegħu, sakemm jiltaqa’ ma’ Annie. Hija, bħalu, għandha tifel li qatt ma tara; sfat diżappuntata fl-imħabba; tgħix f’vojt, mingħajr libertà u mingħajr kumpanija. Miġbura flimkien mid-destin u mifruda miċ-ċirkustanzi, flimkien jitħabtu kontra sensiela ta’ ostakli li l-allat jitfgħu fil-mgħodijja tagħhom.

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Dates
Friday, 19th June, 2026, From 7:00pm to 8:30pm

A Q&A with Pete and moderator Emma Mattei will be preceded by the screening of Żafżifa.

Shot on 16mm with open sets and non-actors, Żafżifa unfolds as an emotional journey of yearning, scepticism, and hope. The stories, shaped not by invention but by lived encounters, build continuously, culminating in an architectural and emotional collapse.

Set in a small and densely populated seaside town in Malta, it paints a corrosive portrait of a man drifting through a world of concrete and steel to discover his friends have taken advantage of the changing economy and moved on with their lives. Tortured by a mysterious past, he unleashes himself from the progress that surrounds him.

Throughout, friends and enemies swim by, failing to puncture his carapace until he meets Annie. She, like him, has a child she never sees; has been disappointed in love; lives in a vacuum, without freedom, without companionship. Brought together by fate and torn apart by circumstance, together they struggle against a barrage of obstacles the gods throw in their path.