The Girl and the Pot | A Menina e o Pote | La ragazza e il vaso
Valentina Homem, Tati Bond
Brasile | 2024 | 12’18’’
In a dystopian world, the Girl breaks her ceramic pot, which holds a secret within. The breaking of the pot opens portals to a parallel universe and the girl enters a time of transformation in which the creation of a new world is finally possible.
Direction: Valentina Homem, Tati Bond
Animation: Tati Bond, Nara Normande
Screenplay: Valentina Homem, Eva Randolph, Francy Baniwa, Nara Normande, Tati Bond
Editing: Eva Randolph
Sound Design: Felippe Mussel
Music: Francisco Fontes Baniwaù
Voices: Francy Baniwa
Producer: Valentina Homemù
Production: Sempre Viva

Valentina Homem
Brazilian artist and filmmaker, active since the early 2000’s. Her short documentary Abigail premiered at Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (2016), while Neither Spring Nor Estuary had its international premiere at Ann Arbor Film Festival (2019). Her films have been shown at Festival dei Popoli, Cartagena Film Festival and others. She has cowritten and co-directed with Fernanda Bond a fiction feature film called The Day Before (2024).

Tati Bond
Visual artist, animator and filmmaker. She was co-director, art director, co-writer and solo animator of the short film The Girl and The Pot (2024). In 2023 she created the visual identity and animations for the series A Vida Pela Frente (Globoplay). In 2023 she was selected for the 3rd edition of MVSM (stop motion video art show). In 2018, she took care of the artistic direction and of the animations for the project A Menina e o Pote – video installation (OI Futuro-RJ).


