Through Foreign Eyes

Mykaela Plotkinova thought of making this poetic, mosaic documentary in a bookshop, when she came across the words of poet Manoel de Barros about “the accent of the place of our origin we carry in our eyes”. She never found the quote again, but in the course of the next few years, she carried out the project with the help of other contributors, mainly the editor C. A. Saquieres. She created a film essay combining reflections on the identity and ethnic roots of several natives of the Brazilian city of Recife, who live abroad, and the images of the places where they live. „I’ve never not felt like a foreigner, but neither did I really know where I came from. Through Foreign Eyes searches for a story, no one has ever really told me. This film is a must for me. A film that is made to understand life.“ M. Plotkin