Mirella

An evocative chronicle of Mirella Ricciardi, the legendary photographer who captured the vanishing beauty of life with her camera and now longs to stay hidden behind the lens. Born in Kenya to European parents, she grew up amid the optimism and contradictions of a fading empire. Her East Africa photographs, later published under the title Vanishing Africa, brought her fame while provoking controversy for being filtered through a colonial gaze. Now well over ninety, she prefers not to show her face, guiding the narrative with her voice and memories as the film unfolds.