{"id":4029,"date":"2023-06-23T04:09:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T04:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/?page_id=4029"},"modified":"2023-08-03T02:08:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T02:08:23","slug":"samsara","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/films\/samsara\/","title":{"rendered":"SAMSARA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-right:0px;--awb-padding-left:0px;--awb-background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-slider-sc\" style=\"margin-bottom:-60px;\" id=\"thisbff-film-top-slider\"><div class=\"fusion-flexslider-loading flexslider fusion-aligncenter flexslider-hover-type-none\" data-slideshow_autoplay=\"1\" data-slideshow_smooth_height=\"0\" data-slideshow_speed=\"7000\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:100%;\"><ul class=\"slides\"><li class=\"image\"><span class=\"fusion-image-hover-element hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-a-young-man-reading-infront-of-an-old-lady-looking-out-the-fields-this-buddhist-film-festival.jpg\" alt=\"SAMSARA - A young man reading infront of an old lady looking out the fields - THIS Buddhist Film Festival\" width=\"1680\" height=\"598\" class=\"wp-image-4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-a-young-man-reading-infront-of-an-old-lady-looking-out-the-fields-this-buddhist-film-festival-200x71.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-a-young-man-reading-infront-of-an-old-lady-looking-out-the-fields-this-buddhist-film-festival-400x142.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-a-young-man-reading-infront-of-an-old-lady-looking-out-the-fields-this-buddhist-film-festival-600x214.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-a-young-man-reading-infront-of-an-old-lady-looking-out-the-fields-this-buddhist-film-festival-800x285.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-a-young-man-reading-infront-of-an-old-lady-looking-out-the-fields-this-buddhist-film-festival-1200x427.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-a-young-man-reading-infront-of-an-old-lady-looking-out-the-fields-this-buddhist-film-festival.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/li><li class=\"image\"><span class=\"fusion-image-hover-element hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-monks-in-orange-robes-in-front-of-the-waterfall-this-buddhist-film-festival.jpg\" alt=\"SAMSARA - Monks in orange robes in front of the waterfall - THIS Buddhist Film Festival\" width=\"1680\" height=\"598\" class=\"wp-image-4034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-monks-in-orange-robes-in-front-of-the-waterfall-this-buddhist-film-festival-200x71.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-monks-in-orange-robes-in-front-of-the-waterfall-this-buddhist-film-festival-400x142.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-monks-in-orange-robes-in-front-of-the-waterfall-this-buddhist-film-festival-600x214.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-monks-in-orange-robes-in-front-of-the-waterfall-this-buddhist-film-festival-800x285.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-monks-in-orange-robes-in-front-of-the-waterfall-this-buddhist-film-festival-1200x427.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-monks-in-orange-robes-in-front-of-the-waterfall-this-buddhist-film-festival.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/li><li class=\"image\"><span class=\"fusion-image-hover-element hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-lamb-biting-strings-this-buddhist-film-festival.jpg\" alt=\"SAMSARA - Lamb biting strings - THIS Buddhist Film Festival\" width=\"1680\" height=\"598\" class=\"wp-image-4033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-lamb-biting-strings-this-buddhist-film-festival-200x71.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-lamb-biting-strings-this-buddhist-film-festival-400x142.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-lamb-biting-strings-this-buddhist-film-festival-600x214.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-lamb-biting-strings-this-buddhist-film-festival-800x285.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-lamb-biting-strings-this-buddhist-film-festival-1200x427.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-lamb-biting-strings-this-buddhist-film-festival.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:50px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-border-color:#e2e2e2;--awb-border-style:solid;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.88%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.88%;--awb-width-medium:66.666666666667%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:2.88%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:2.88%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1>SAMSARA<\/h1>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\" style=\"--awb-font-size:80%;\"><h3>Sun 24 Sep | 6.50pm<\/h3>\n<\/div><div ><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat button-large button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-span-yes fusion-button-default-type fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\" style=\"--button_margin-bottom:15px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sistic.com.sg\/events\/bff0923f\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Buy Tickets<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3 fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility\"><p><strong>Single Cinema Ticket: $15<\/strong><br \/>\n<small><em>Prices exclude SISTIC booking fees<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:1280px;--awb-max-height:720px;--awb-align-self:center;--awb-width:100%;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fG41imHczMg?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture;\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:30px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:40px;\"><p>SINGAPORE PREMIERE<\/p>\n<p>Spain | 2023 | 114 min | PG<\/p>\n<p>Lao, Swahili with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Lois Pati\u00f1o<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5\"><h3>SYNOPSIS<\/h3>\n<p>SAMSARA is a story split in two: two continents, two communities, two belief systems, two sets of experiences and inner lives. Between them lies a sensory pathway, all light and sound. The viewer is only asked to close their eyes and travel with it.<\/p>\n<p>In Laos, a young man named Amid is tending to a dying woman. He takes his boat out on the Mekong River. One day he meets a novice monk, Bee An, who asks about the book he carries. Amid explains that he carries the Bardo Thodol, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and that he has been reciting it to her. It is \u201ca book that someone has to read to you,\u201d Amid says. He returns to the woman and sees her bid farewell to her belongings. Amid\u2019s adult life is beginning where hers is near an end. He drips water on her hand to wake her up. \u201cWhat can I do,\u201d Amid reads to her, \u201cnow that I am dead?\u201d With a group of monks from Bee An&#8217;s temple, Amid travels downriver to the Kuang Si waterfalls. While there, the woman passes away.<\/p>\n<p>Another drop, another hand. The story moves to Tanzania, where a young girl named Juwairiya wakes up to the news that a baby goat has been born. She names it Neema, the Arabic word for blessing. Juwairiya lives with her family in Uroa, a village on the East coast of Zanzibar. Local women farm seaweed and make soap. The men catch fish. \u201cLife is change\u201d, Juwairiya&#8217;s grandmother explains. There is regeneration in the air.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column thisbff-film-sb\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:50px;--awb-padding-left:30px;--awb-padding-top-small:30px;--awb-padding-left-small:0px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-border-color:#e2e2e2;--awb-border-left:1px;--awb-border-style:solid;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:33.333333333333%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:5.76%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:5.76%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-scroll-devices=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\" style=\"--awb-font-size:80%;\"><h3>Sun 24 Sep | 6.50pm<\/h3>\n<\/div><div ><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat button-large button-default fusion-button-default button-2 fusion-button-span-yes fusion-button-default-type\" style=\"--button_margin-bottom:15px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sistic.com.sg\/events\/bff0923f\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Buy Tickets<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:15px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"><p><strong>Single Cinema Ticket: $15<\/strong><br \/>\n<small><em>Prices exclude SISTIC booking fees<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:40px;width:100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-sizes-top:1px;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:1px;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:40px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-margin-top:40px;--awb-margin-bottom:40px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_3_5 3_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:60%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.2%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.2%;--awb-width-medium:60%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:3.2%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:3.2%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-8\"><h3>DIRECTOR\u2019S BIO<\/h3>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:25px;--awb-max-width:120px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\" style=\"border-radius:50%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" alt=\"SAMSARA - Movie director Lois Patin\u0303o - THIS Buddhist Film Festival\" title=\"samsara-movie-director-lois-patino-this-buddhist-film-festival\" src=\"https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-director-lois-patino-this-buddhist-film-festival.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-4031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-director-lois-patino-this-buddhist-film-festival-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-director-lois-patino-this-buddhist-film-festival-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-director-lois-patino-this-buddhist-film-festival-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thisfilmfest.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/samsara-movie-director-lois-patino-this-buddhist-film-festival.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-9\"><p><strong>Lois Pati\u00f1o<\/strong> (Galicia, Spain, 1983), filmmaker and artist, has shown his films at festivals such as Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, New York, Viennale, IDFA, Oberhausen. His most recent works <em>Sycorax<\/em> (2021) and <em>The Sower of Stars<\/em> (2022) have premiered at Cannes Quinzaine and Berlinale Shorts. His two feature films <em>Costa da Morte<\/em> (2013) and <em>Red Moon Tide<\/em> (2020) premiered at Locarno and Berlinale Forum. His last feature SAMSARA premiered at Berlinale Encounters (2023) winning the Special Jury Award. He is currently working on two other films, to be premiered in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_2_5 2_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:40%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:4.8%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:4.8%;--awb-width-medium:40%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:4.8%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:4.8%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-scroll-devices=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-10\"><h3>DIRECTOR\u2019S STATEMENT<\/h3>\n<p>SAMSARA delves into some constants that I have been exploring in my work: the reflection on the relationship between the human being and the landscape, an anthropological interest focused especially on the mythical, spiritual, or the will to take the viewer to an intimate and meditative experience. In my previous films, I have developed concepts that tend to \u2018empty\u2019 the image, such as distance, duration of immobility. The human figures in these films appear very distant or paralyzed, suggesting a disappearance, a dilution of the human being in the landscape. In SAMSARA I continue to work from the Freudian concept of the \u2018oceanic feeling\u2019: to be feeling as part of the whole, as the drop of water is an indivisible part of the ocean; an idea of spiritual communion also present in the concept of Buddhist Enlightenment that the project explores.<\/p>\n<p>In SAMSARA I wanted to take this \u2018emptying\u2019 of the image one step further and explore more deeply the idea and representation of the invisible in cinema. That&#8217;s when the idea came up to make a film which should be watched with your eyes closed. I wanted the cinematic experience to be closer to the meditative one, and for the theatre to become a space for collective meditation. On the other hand, I find interest in the multiplication of the image provoked by the gesture of closing our eyes. That way the sound will evoke different images to each viewer. This also allows a singular perceptive experience derived from the fact that it is the eyelid, soaked in light, which becomes the screen. The <em>Tibetan Book of the Dead<\/em> &#8211; a detailed description of what we will find in the afterlife &#8211; seemed to me an optimal place to develop this cinematographic proposal of closed eyes, as it is a spectral space, where the evanescent and fleeting acquire greater presence.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-4 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-5 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-11\"><h4>PRINT SOURCE<\/h4>\n<p>Jorge Blanch<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:festivals@benditafilms.com\">festivals@benditafilms.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/benditafilms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">benditafilms.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-5 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background thisbff-dgrey-box nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:40px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-margin-top:40px;--awb-background-color:#434551;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-6 fusion_builder_column_3_5 3_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:60%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.2%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.2%;--awb-width-medium:60%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:3.2%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:3.2%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-center fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-12\"><h4>YOU MIGHT ALSO BE INTERESTED IN<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-7 fusion_builder_column_2_5 2_5 fusion-flex-column fusion-no-small-visibility\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:40%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:4.8%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:4.8%;--awb-width-medium:40%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:4.8%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:4.8%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-center fusion-content-layout-column\"><div style=\"text-align:right;\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat button-small button-custom fusion-button-default button-3 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" style=\"--button_accent_color:#ffffff;--button_accent_hover_color:var(--awb-color6);--button_border_hover_color:hsla(var(--awb-color6-h),var(--awb-color6-s),calc(var(--awb-color6-l) - 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