Sara Sepulcri

From Rome to Dakar follows Nana, a Senegalese woman whose body and language are reshaped through dance memories during her journey from Rome to Dakar. Inspired by Pina Bausch, featuring the voice of Tanya Tagaq, and drawing on the story of Mame Coumba Bang, the film investigates how the human body adapts to overpopulation, immobility, collisions, and extreme heat. Through speculative images, language and sound, it explores the intersection between physical transformation, communication and environmental change in a world marked by rising temperatures.

In a near future shaped by a five-degree rise in global temperature, Raj moves through a flooded Singapore, his body already showing signs of adaptation: webbed fingers, elongated limbs, a changed physical relationship to water, heat and survival. As he traces the origins of the first alphabets through Pali, Sanskrit and Vedic languages, his journey continues toward polluted New Delhi, where the air has become almost unbreathable. Between climate collapse, bodily mutation and the memory of ancient forms of language, the film imagines how human communication and perception may transform in a world where the body itself is forced to evolve.

From Lima to Santiago investigates the messages encoded in the Earth’s fracture lines after natural disasters, comparing them to the Inca Quipu system, an early form of information recording. Using images of her own body tissues and skin, captured through microscope and MRI scans, Sara Sepulcri creates a dialogue between the fractures of the Earth and those of the human body, observing how both preserve and transmit information through their structures. Along the migratory route between Lima and Santiago, the film identifies glaciers and volcanoes affected by a five-degree rise in temperature, exploring fracture lines as messages that reveal connections between human and planetary histories.