Neonorma

Mia, an obedient daughter of a piano teacher, challenges her mother’s patience as she grows up and learns more about the life outside her room together with a boy next door. This coming-of-age story, entirely shot from a fixed top-down perspective of Mia’s room, depicts short snippets spanning 16 years of a girl’s life. What begins as a simple daily life of a child slowly turns into a dramatic teen experience, culminating in a decision that took all these years to come to.

The film takes place at a time when global catastrophes (climate change, global pandemics, warfare, etc.) have become commonplace and normalized. Art student Dafne is trying to create a painting, but she is disturbed by the noise made by her roommates. Seeking refuge, Dafne enters the world of her painting and creates her own personal oasis there. However, soon she must face a mysterious force there as well – a masked creature named Rēgs.