Patricia Geula

writer & director

Kenya/Portugal

Patricia Geula, a filmmaker navigating between Kenya and Portugal, centers her work on the intricate balance between the harsh and beautiful complexities of human existence and its ephemeral nature. Through the use of moving images and text, she delves into the realms of ecstatic truths, ancestral wounds, mental health, sexuality, and the transcendent power of music. Notably, her forthcoming feature film THE WATER CALLS TO YOU garnered recognition by winning the Nairobi Film Festival Writer’s Prize 2022 and was chosen to participate in the Durban Film Mart 2022. Patricia’s script for the short film WHISPERS FROM MY MOTHER was selected for the Durban Talent 2021 program

IT MUST BE IN THE ATTEMPT (short, 2018)

WE BOTH DREAM OF WAVES (short experimental documentary, 2019)

Zêzere

in development

It is summer and despite being in the prime of her life, BEATRIZ, 14, Kenyan-Portuguese, has to face the reality of her father’s absence. In the compulsion to drink chocolate milk, she leaves home where her grief stricken mother is confined to the darkness of her bedroom. Cycling through the lush landscape of central Portugal, she meets LOURENÇO, 19, a grocer’s assistant who suffers from mental disorders. Together, they venture across the magnificent Zêzere River. Beatriz tries to swim across the river, but has to return to the shore because of a violent panic attack by Lourenço. Helping him to recover, beneath the tall trees that survived the recent wildfires, Beatriz tells him about her trip to Kenya to attend her father’s funeral where revelations of his past came to light and she doesn’t yet know how to tell her mother.