Correspondances To Inhabit The World

Original Title: Correspondencias para habitar el mundo

Runtime: 70

Expected Release: September 2026

Production Stage: Post-production

1st Feature: No

Looking for: Festivals, sales agents, distributors, buyers, distribution strategic guidance, impact campaign strategist

Synopsis:

On the 30th of May 2019, Melania was the victim of a homophobic attack on a bus in London. The attack went viral in the media around the world. She suggested to her friend Laura that they make a film together. Through contemporary correspondence, they explore trauma and healing. The poems of Cristina Peri Rossi, an Uruguayan poet who went into exile in the 1970s, permeate this story, placing Melania’s quest for meaning within a broader history of exile and resistance.

Director’s Profile:

Laura Gabay is a Swiss-Uruguay film director and producer working between two continents, co-founder of the collective Écran Mobile, where she has been producing films since 2018. She is currently directing her second feature film. In 2023, she directed her first feature film, Para no olvidar, which premiered at Visions du Réel. Her short film Viento dulce salado was screened at Visions du Réel and at IDFA in 2019. In 2016, she won the Audience Award for her Bachelor short film Enquête 62 at the Filmets Festival (Badalona). She has produced the short films Criatura, Carbon which have won awards at Locarno and Winterthur. She teaches Super 8 and 16mm filmmaking at institutions such as HEAD – Geneva, the University of Geneva, Zebra Lab in Switzerland, and elsewhere in spain, Colombia, Brazil and Cuba. After studying economics and social sciences, she studied cinema at HEAD (Geneva), EICTV (San Antonio de los Baños), and EQZE (San Sebastián). She is currently a member of EURODOC.

Producer’s Profile:

Vania Jaikin Miyazaki is a Swiss-Chileanp producer and filmmaker, she has collaborated with Swiss Radio and Television (RTS) as an independent filmmaker and editor since 2010. She co-founded HandMade Films, through which she began producing short documentary and fiction films, as well as music videos.
Since 2019, she has been working with Mnemosyn Films, where she produced two films by Charlie Petersmann: the short fiction Rois Mages (Solothurn, Winterthur) and the feature documentary À Ciel Ouvert (Solothurn), both addressing exclusion and the margins of society. Since 2022, she collaborates with the Écran Mobile collective, producing Laura Gabay’s Correspondences to Inhabit the World.