My Paper Life

Vida Dena

Vida Dena’s feature documentary debut is an intimate and subtly expansive portrait of a Syrian family living in a house in Brussels that seldom leaves the confines of its four pink walls. Dena’s film focuses on the two eldest daughters, Hala and Rima, and the family’s growing collection of drawings and dreams. As their colourful sketches come alive, the young women recall their journey and their home, their plans to study and to marry, and what other possibilities they hope this new life might have in store.

TRAILER

with

  • Duration : 80 minutes
  • Genre : Documentaire de création
  • Year of production : 2022
  • Image and sound : Vida Dena
  • Edit : Lenka Fillnerova, Frédéric Fichefet, Sophie Vercruysse
  • Music : Noma Omran
  • Produced by : Hanne Phlypo (Clin d'œil films) et Eugénie Michel Villette (Les Films du Bilboquet)
  • Distributed by: Tangente Distribution

partenership

  • Vosges TV
  • Cat&Docs
  • Wild Heart Productions
  • Atelier Graphoui
  • CBA - Centre De L'audiovisuel A Bruxelles
  • Shelter Prod
  • Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)
  • Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government
  • Creative Europe Media of the European Union
  • DGD Belgian Development Cooperation
  • CNC
  • Pictanovo in partnership with the CNC
  • SCAM

news

  • Theater released January 24, 2024
  • AVANT-PREMIÈRE • Cinéma Le Méliès partnership with La Cimade and la Ligue des droits de l'Homme on the occasion of International Migrants' Day - December 2023

projections and selections in Festivals

  • PROJECTION • Comptoir du Doc, Dol-de-Bretagne, Novembre 2023
  • VISIONS DU RÉEL • International Competition • April 2022
  • MILLENIUM INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL • 2022
  • SHEFFIELD DOC FEST • 2022
  • SALINA DOC FEST • 2022
  • FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI • 2022
  • IDFA BEST OF FEST • 2022
  • Middle East NOW FESTIVAL • 2022

awards

  • PRIX INTERRELIGIEUX • International Competition Visions du Réel • Nyon, April 2022
  • “In this dazzling first film, Vida Dena successfully enhances the fantasy of the world dreamed by these children on the threshold of a new life, through animation. This rare achievement brings together her talents as an artist, storyteller and director, put to music by Noma Omran, the illustrious exiled Syrian singer and composer.” Aurélien Marsais, Visions du Réel