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Rita Ferrando
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Rita Ferrando is a Canadian-Argentinian writer and filmmaker. Her films have been presented internationally at film festivals and institutions, including the Toronto International Film Festival: Wavelengths, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Anthology Film Archives (New York), The Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, the Beijing International Film Festival, True/False (Columbia), the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal), 25 FPS (Zagreb), Centre A (Vancouver), the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (San Francisco), and the Clemente Center (New York). Ferrando’s films explore desire, grief, embodiment, and the relationship between human and non-human worlds. She holds an MFA in Visual Studi…
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NRRita Ferrando similarly considers her family’s history of migration by way of archival fragments and a conversation across time with her artist grandfather.
After Image
2026
NRPleasure Garden offers an intimate glimpse into the experience of a medical abortion. Through quiet and tender reflection, the film follows Ana as she contemplates the possibilities in the space between endings.
Pleasure Garden
2022
NRIkebana is an experimental documentary that reimagines the art of flower arranging. Connecting different practices and perspectives through cinematic assemblage, the film witnesses plants as living, permeable vehicles that hold everyday memories and poetics.
Ikebana
2021
Behind the camera
NRRita Ferrando similarly considers her family’s history of migration by way of archival fragments and a conversation across time with her artist grandfather.
After Image
2026
NRPleasure Garden offers an intimate glimpse into the experience of a medical abortion. Through quiet and tender reflection, the film follows Ana as she contemplates the possibilities in the space between endings.
Pleasure Garden
2022
NRIkebana is an experimental documentary that reimagines the art of flower arranging. Connecting different practices and perspectives through cinematic assemblage, the film witnesses plants as living, permeable vehicles that hold everyday memories and poetics.
Ikebana
2021