Light seekers

Introduction and Q&A with Director: Federico Sande Novo

A film as a pilgrimage; a journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature, or a higher good.

The film in progress Lightseekers takes us on a journey that started from Federico Sande Novo’s wish to understand his mother and her decades-long connection to a spiritual cult. While using cinema to explore the topic of belief he became interested in the inaccessible quality of her experience and, ultimately, in the impossibility of fully grasping his mother’s identity only through reasoning or theorising.

The process of making the film opened a way of working where Federico embraced uncertainty and turned it into a method to rethink the problem of what happens when either the questions cannot be plainly formulated, or the answers will never be found. His research slowly shifted towards praising the value of experiencing not knowing and being lost, setting the bases for a critical meditation around the subjects of authorship and authority.