World premiere
Smaragda - I Got Thick Skin and I Can't Jump
Smaragda decides to move to the home of her recently deceased mother to take care of the guide dog she left behind. However, in a hot-blooded Cyprian tourist city, Smaragda finds plenty of alternatives to grieving at home. Her chocolate-sweet eyes and time-sculpted femininity titillates males at work, on the way home, and on dance floors sticky with spilt cocktails.
Is a single and childless middle-aged woman at best a phenomenon that unveils itself for one night, only to then disappear into the role of an unnoticed caregiver during the day? This thought does not sit well with Smaragda as a former children’s programme host. But the hope to again reach the TV screen tends to be buried by reality – instead of trying to catch stardust, she must earn a living babysitting children in a playroom.
Against her expectations, Smaragda has ended up in a serving role in lives that fit the societal timeline with their family models and success. However, this does not dishearten a woman who knows how to enjoy smoking, sex, friends, and the power of newly discovered social media.
Elise Jagomägi
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Rearrangement (PÖFF 2018, short), The Shape of Things to Come (2020, short), Bad Habits (2016, short), Smaragda - I Got Thick Skin and I Can't Jump (2024)
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