

Three women, one volcano, zero patience for your heteronormative nonsense.
A short film that shows the encounter and love between three women of different ages and backgrounds. As they build a new way of being together, Etna, Nadia and Indigo, in their intimacies, fears and memories, live a volcanic story.
Direction
Zakia frames bodies like landscapes—lush, dangerous, alive.
Cinematography
Etna's red glow as fourth character, witness and accomplice.

Director
Julia Zakia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on Sicily's slopes during actual volcanic activity; crew had evacuation protocols. Zakia wanted 'geological time' to press against human urgency.
Linzmeyer, Fadel, and Gabin improvised their first scene together; the visible uncertainty became the film's emotional architecture.