16:28, 4K Digital, MT/DE, 2026
Synopsis
The Maltese Islands have long been marked by conquest. The fragile landscape that remains is being rapidly erased by greed and corruption. The film drifts through what is left, as a narrator searches for an absent figure in the textures of rock, clay and seaweed. An elegy for land and sea, an elegy for land and Ż.
Credits
Director
Rachel Micallef Somerville
Cinematography
Giulio Rasi
Sound design
Jonas Meyer
Music
Luke Scerri, Jonas Meyer
Text
Rachel Micallef Somerville, fatima a.m., Kenneth Scicluna
Colour grading
Sally Shamas
Re-recording mixer
Adrian Lo
Mixing studio
K13 Studios Berlin
Screenings
Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival (Belgrade, Serbia)
Braziers International Film Festival (Oxfordshire, UK)
FEST New Directors New Films Festival (Espinho, Portugal)
Golden Grapes International Short Film Festival (Telavi, Georgia), awarded with Best Sound by the jury
Bistre Reke Documentary Film Festival (Temska, Serbia)
Mediterrane Film Festival (Valletta, Malta)
ΛΑΛΑ | LALA Collective (Athens, Greece)
