A film about loneliness and identically repeated days that, before being days, are a set of identically repeated small gestures, and on top of that, the silence that announces the absence. In Catarina Romano’s “Anyhow, Anyway”, a woman has been locked inside her house for a long time, unemployed, locked outside the possibilities of her time, locked inside herself. In this gloomy animation, made up of melancholic compositions sewn together melodically, time seems suspended in the details. However, maybe these gestures and rituals are part of a choreography, or of a dance, and thus anticipate some form of redemption. This is Catarina Romano’s third time at Curtas, after having premiered “The House or a Machine for Living in” in the 2016 National Competition, and “Split”, in 2006. (JA)