"The story of a Cow Child" Film Presentation & Networking Fundraiser

We are coming together to present the upcoming "The story of a cow child" documentary which is currently in development; telling the story of Abido, a Moroccan child, abandoned at age 4 from his family and breast feed from his new mother, the cow. Growing up the child become father and after having his first child he convert into religion, becoming a practicant Muslim.

ABOUT THE EVENT

The event will host international guests to attend this fundraising screening with the opportunity to network with industry professionals and raise awareness for the project and for the charity we have pledge to. The event will be hosted by the producer Xhoana Lama.

We will present the project in details and show and exclusive teaser filmed between Morocco and Italy to give you a taste of what the documentary will look like.

A presentation of the cause the film want to support will be held by the producer too. The fundraising will help the children living in the Moroccan villages in Atlas Mountains and the desert of Agafay to get educated and inspired from all kinds of art.

INTRO DOCUMENTARY

Click here to watch the Trailer

Elisabetta and Abido, life partners, living in the same household with their two kids, are retracing the memories of Abido through an interview. They reconstruct a story about abandonment. Abido was left by his mother who preferred his brother Charaf, the one who was suckled by his mother unlike Abido who drank the cow's milk in order not to die of hunger.

Halima, the mother of Abido, had met a bitch who, according to legend, had stolen her milk. Abido was left with his aunt Fatiha, who sold the last few gold to allow his nephew to drink from the cow's udder and survive, she could not afford infant formula.

The beginning looks like a reconstruction of a story from Abido's traumatic past between two lovers, where one is the protagonist, Abido and the other moves the story through curiosity. At a certain point Elisabetta enters more and more into the story as she is demanding answers from Abido that do not arrive and from outside she is sucked into that confrontation.

In this second phase the real reason for this reconstruction comes out. Abido has been approaching religion for about three years, although he has always had a Western attitude, the change took place when his first daughter was born. This decisive change of life has led to countless fights in the couple. For Elisabetta, Abido did not receive the call of God, but simply suffered a trauma that has always left him without a spiritual home and belonging. Victim of this gap in adulthood, in order to feel belonging to something, he sought belonging in religion.

This is Elisabetta point of view. She wants Abido to recognize this fact, to strip his closeness to religion in light and untouchability. The clash becomes more and more bitter, it becomes ideological, cultural and brings with it all the trappings, stigmatizations and prejudices of distant cultural and religious views. Almost atheist Elisabetta has to fight against an immense vision and certainty, the one of the divine.

It is an unequal struggle, between God and woman or between God and the devil.

Eventually Elisabetta was betrayed by a man who sold a totally different attitude at the beginning of their relationship and after the birth of their first child, he revealed another face, which puts God and his rules before her, just as Abido felt betrayed by that mother who did not choose him for his brother.

It is a double abandonment suffered by both, which represents a point of contact that makes them similar and fragile now that they seem so distant.

The work travels on two tracks, that of the omnipresent interview and the visual one, which starts by telling that experience of abandonment and then embarks on an independent visual journey that speaks no longer only of Abido and his experience of abandonment, but of an experience of universal abandonment where everyone can recognize themselves, even Elisabetta.

Producer: Xhoana Lama

Director: Elisabetta Falanga

Director of Photography: Roberto Tenace

Editor: Riccardo Caruso

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As Independent Filmmakers, we rely on your donations to be able to deliver the documentary and help the new generation to evolve.

Thank you!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

24 Old Gloucester St, 24 Old Gloucester Street, London, United Kingdom