_Ditectrice_, directed by [Guilherme Santos](https://guillesantos.org) and [Sadaf H. Nava](https://www.sadaf.org), sees its screening at Cannes tomorrow, July 16th.
The rise of female-centric cinema is a long-awaited blessing, as is this short. In recent years Iran, home to director Sadaf H. Nava, has seen a blooming film industry of new creators where they previously were not. Over the past 20 years, the nation has been hailed as a capital for exceedingly unique auteur cinema, becoming an unexpected film hot spot. Brazil, with a rocky and often politically threatened film industry, has produced a crop of filmmakers through the last century. It, by no coincidence, is the birthplace of the other director of this film, Guilherme Santos.
The film is made up of a series of vignettes that follow an introspective young woman. The scenes aren’t necessarily tied to one another in the classic narrative sense, only deceptively incoherent. Instead the chapter-like scenes are bridged together by the palpable and raw presence of Sadaf H. Nava, who also plays the protagonist. The footage is overlaid with prose-like narration that gives the film the poignancy it relies on. Lines like “God only appears in the desert” and “Those that invest in fiction have a better grasp on reality” stick in your mind long after the tableaus have come to an end.
_Ditectrice_ will be hit the screen at Cannes film festival tomorrow, screening simultaneously on SHOWstudio. To learn more about these two artists and their upcoming work, visit [Nava](https://www.sadaf.org) and [Santos](https://guillesantos.org) online.
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