Empowering Streams

A swimmer plunges herself into the natural spectacle of the Rio Solimões and Rio Negro. In VALERIJA, women on an island choose their own tombstone images, while their stories explore the subject of generational heritage. Young women in Ecuador find refuge in a secret place in the desert, and despite their traumas, they refuse to lose hope. The students of the Sweetwater boarding school prepare for their End of the Year event, but four of them plan their own show. A gamer defends herself publicly against the obstacles her opponents throw at her, while an intruder hacks into her reality. (mm)

© Constructing an Island (Ebba Gustafsson)