ŻAFŻIFA
Cast - Dimitrios Giannakoudakis - Crishelle Medrano - Mehdi Aouni - Zohaib Anjum - Marylu Coppini Crew - Writer/Director/Camera: Peter Sant - Producers: Angelique Muller & Peter Sant - Editors: Daniel Goddard, Emma van den Berg &, Peter Sant - Sound Design: Peter Sant
Cairo IFF 2025 (international competition) - Panorama of the European Film 2025 (Egypt) - Cinemistica (Spain)
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Synopsis
Shot on 16mm with open sets and non-actors, Żafżifa unfolds as an emotional journey of yearning, scepticism, and hope. The stories, shaped not by invention but by lived encounters, build continuously, culminating in an architectural and emotional collapse.
Set in a small and densely populated seaside town in Malta, it paints a corrosive portrait of a man drifting through a world of concrete and steel to discover his friends have taken advantage of the changing economy and moved on with their lives. Tortured by a mysterious past, he unleashes himself from the progress that surrounds him.
Throughout, friends and enemies swim by, failing to puncture his carapace until he meets Annie. She, like him, has a child she never sees; has been disappointed in love; lives in a vacuum, without freedom, without companionship. Brought together by fate and torn apart by circumstance, together they struggle against a barrage of obstacles the gods throw in their path.
Written, arranged, performed and mixed by Peter Sant. *Escape Monotony and *Outro with Ivan Hoe on drums. Mastered by Amir Shoat.
SANT IVAN - COLLAPSE
A collection of spontaneously composed recordings made over a three-day-period split over several weeks. What came out ended up forming part of the soundtrack to the film ZAFZIFA but was recorded while the film was still in development. Sound before image. The recordings were made using a Sound Devices 788T and a bunch of out-of-date mics. Following that, a few embellishments were added for good taste.
Peter Sant on guitar, reel-to-reel and keys with the South African-born, London-based Ivan Hoe on drums. Written, arranged, performed and mixed by Peter Sant with Ivan Hoe on drums. Mastered by Amir Shoat.
A2 - 42cm x 60cm
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Set of 4 - 10” x 4”
Printed on 350gsm Card
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