Mediating between the internal and external, four women share the beauty, difficulty and immediacy of being present in the world. Co-commissioned by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and filmed in Iceland, Mother Melancholia is a strikingly and hauntingly beautiful film, a multi-layered collage set to a soundtrack for the end of the world.

Marine Chesnais is a dancer and choreographer that comes from a family of sailors and navigators. In July 2020, she decided to go to Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean to meet humpback whales. Her experience of the big blue, opened a threshold, a space of discovery of the other and a rediscovery of oneself. Her hypnotic bio-inspired dance, shot on breath-hold, questions our way of inhabiting life.