LOSS

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The film tells an intimate story from a child's point of view, without explaining the world around her. We experience everything through her body: running, fighting, swimming, breathing. The desert landscape becomes an emotional space where strength, fear, and tenderness exist at the same time. Goni is a girl in a world that was not built for her. She is expected to be tough, but not in the way she chooses. She is expected to belong, but on terms she never agreed to. Her brother is the only one who meets her exactly as she is. When he is gone, she is left with something harder: the moment a girl becomes aware of herself as a girl. The moment she understands that the world will ask things of her that it does not ask of others, and that she must decide, alone, what kind of strength she wants to carry. The most attractive point of the film is this mixture of physicality and emotional vulnerability. It is a small story, but it touches something universal: the loss of the one person who saw you completely, and the silence they leave behind.