Alina Talipova
Unland
Belgium (RITCS (Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound) School of Arts in Brussels)

competing for PRIX EUROPA 2025 Student Award - Rising Star AUDIO

Unland (original titel: Onland) is a audio documentary about four young people navigating the fragile ground between origin and future. Each of them balances between memory and desire, between a pasts with dark shadows and a future that remains uncertain. Set in a metaphorical swamp, their voices reveal what it means to grow up between cultures, carrying histories larger than themselves. Through field recordings, multilingual voices, silences, and soundscapes, the work explores identity, migration, and belonging without offering simple answers. Instead, it invites the listener into an unstable but fertile space where contradictions and connections coexist.