Duration: 14’
Directors: Ana Gennerich
Country: Portugal
Elisa by Ana Gennerich | PRT | 14’
In a world where dreams intertwine with television fame, a young actress faces deep alienation and the loss of her identity when her iconic character begins to blur the boundaries of her own existence. As the lines fade and mirrors reflect an unfamiliar face, she experiences a growing disconnection from herself and the fruit of her work. As fans and colleagues mistake her for her fictional alter ego, stripping her of her individuality, she enters an inner struggle to reclaim her essence, challenging the limits between fiction and the reality of her own existence, and fighting to regain control of her destiny before disappearing completely under the shadow of her character.
Ana Gennerich
With a flair for the visual arts and design, and a lifelong passion for cinema, Ana Gennerich divides her work between Spain and Portugal. She moved to Madrid in 2020 to study Audiovisual Communication, and subsequently completed a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP), where she developed various projects as a director and director of photography.
Whilst still in the academic context, she worked on projects that gained national recognition, such as the documentary Praia da Aguda (directed by Salvador Gil, 2023), which won the Best Documentary Short Film award at Sophia Estudante and was nominated for the Sophia Awards in the Student category.
Her career includes experience in short and feature-length fiction and documentary films, as well as in advertising and music videos. Among her most recent projects are the short film O Outro (directed by Miguel Ângelo Ferraz, 2024), Escatologia (directed by Daniel Mendes, 2024), the documentaries Expanding: Fazer o Festival (2023) and Museu Nadir Afonso (2023), and the award-winning Praia da Aguda (2023).
