Samsara (2023)

In Buddhist philosophy, the word ‘samsara’ refers to the nature of life as a cycle of deaths and rebirths.

It is this process that filmmaker & visionary Lois Patiño evokes to breathtaking effect here, an incredibly ambitious film with a triptych structure at its centre, that follows a soul from the body of Mon (Simone Milavanh), an elderly woman in Laos, and later into the form of a baby goat in Zanzibar. It is a voyage that probes spiritual and cinematic boundaries to create a deeply moving meditation on what happens after we die and is, at times, a transcendent experience. 

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Year: 2024

Runtime: 1h 53m

Cert: U

Director: Lois Patiño

Starring: Amid Keomany, Toumor Xiong, Simone Milavanh

Genre: Drama

Swahili, Lao with English Subtitles