Andrea Bussmann
Andrea Bussmann, born in Toronto, Canada, earned her M.A. in social anthropology and a M.F.A. in film production. After completing her degrees, she directed He Whose Face Gives No Light which premiered at FidMarseille in 2011. She produced and edited the short film Three Walls and the feature Harvest Moon. In 2016, she co-directed Tales of Two Who Dreamt, which premiered at the Berlinale Forum and went on to be selected at many international festivals. The film was awarded the best documentary at the Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil in 2017. Her latest film Fausto, premiered in 2018 at the Locarno International Film Festival, where it won a Special Mention, and made its North American premiere at TIFF.
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Tales of Two Who Dreamt
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Photographed in austere black and white, this film spins mythic tales around an actual Roma family living inside a Toronto housing block for asylum seekers. As the family awaits their day in court, the kids try to stave off boredom by goofing around while the adults repeat and refine stories about their past, some real and some fictional. Observational but never cold, this hybrid work offers a ...
Tales of Two Who Dreamt
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Photographed in austere black and white, this film spins mythic tales around an actual Roma family living inside a Toronto housing block for asylum seekers. As the family awaits their day in court, the kids try to stave off boredom by goofing around while the adults repeat and refine stories about their past, some real and some fictional. Observational but never cold, this hybrid work offers a ...
