LIFF Archive

Same/Different/ Both/Neither

On a wet autumn day, filmmaker Toby Bull travels to the rural graveyard where his parents are buried. Waiting for him, he finds a flock of sheep. A delicate, curious film that explores our human need for communication and connection, in spite of everything. Inspired by the poetic gaze of women experimental filmmakers, two friends share video letters through isolation in São Paulo and Los Angeles. Their yearning to reconnect mingles with yearning for change as the passing days of 2020 take in pot-banging protests against Bolsonaro; gentrification unchecked; and Black Lives Matter demonstrations.