Pendant plusieurs mois, le Brésilien Sergio Oksman s’est intéressé à Ernest Hemingway, à ses sosies, aux fantômes, et à une photographie vieille de 86 ans. Parlant de son film comme d’une imposture, le réalisateur de « Notes on the Other » (Notes sur l’autre) revient sur son parcours, sur la manière de raconter des histoires, et sur la frontière entre la fiction et le documentaire.

Warsaw, Oct. 18 – The Spanish short film "Notes on the Other", directed by Brazilian Sergio Oksman and written in cooperation with Carlos Muguiro, has been given the award for the Best Short Film in the 25th Warsaw Film Festival, which closed on Saturday in the Polish city.

"Notes on the Other" was awarded the first prize in the category of short films, in which 74 other movies were competing. The final gala, held in the Kinoteka Multiplex, where the film director was present, closed this special edition in which, for the first time, the festival was added to the "A" Category, the maximum level acknowledged by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF).

The participation of "Notes on the Other" in the Polish festival represented the international screening of the film, which already had been premiered in Spain during the last edition of "Alcances – Muestra del Cine de Atlántico de Cadiz" (Atlantic Film Festival in Cadiz). On that occasion, the jury unanimously gave the movie the award for the best documentary short film.

"Once upon a time, Ernest Hemingway, then an unknown, wondered what it might be like to be somebody else. It was the incident that precipitated his spectacular career. After his death, which itself involved a fracturing of his identity, his character was immediately assumed by impersonators…

…Notes On The Other unfolds like a fairytale and will leave you wondering long after the credits have rolled. It's a beautiful tribute to a complex man but it's also something which questions what it means to be a man - a human being - at all. It has that poignant, melancholic character so often at the heart of Hemingway's own work, yet there's also a sense here of something vibrant, almost dangerous, a personality so vital that mere death cannot finish it off. It's an extraordinary little film."

An essay on the nature of identity and the figure which Ernest Hemingway created around himself, Notes on the Other makes some fascinating revelations using the Pamplona bull running as a starting point for its investigation.