Mångata
Little Alya and her father are crossing the Mediterranean Sea on a boat that takes them from Africa to Europe in search of a safe place to call home. Tragically, the boat sinks. Thanks to Mångata—“the road to the moon”—the rescuers spot little Alya, the sole survivor. Many years later, we find her again as an astronaut on an important lunar mission. In the middle of the mission, a technical communication problem isolates Alya from the base. This is when she has an encounter that teaches her how Mångata, which already saved her life once, will now help her overcome her past trauma.
15 mins
Screening before the feature film The Mother of All Lies.
About the director
Maja Costa is as a freelance, multilingual screenwriter/director based in Berlin, Germany. After studying Cello at the Milan Conservatory and getting a master’s degree in Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Egyptology, she studied Screenwriting at the dffb in Berlin and is, as a scholarship holder from SKY Italia, an alumna of the International Showrunner Incubator Serial Eyes. As a screenwriter, she is currently co-developing original series for different production companies and broadcasters and adapting the novel E.E. by Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tocarkzuk into a feature-length film. Her original short series REVEIL won 2021 the Best Pitch Prize at the Marseille Web Festival.
