Director: Lorena Alvarado
Venezuela | 2024 | Spanish with English subtitles | 67 min | Docu-fiction
Tras pasar años en el extranjero, Ena regresa a Caracas, donde encuentra a su abuela perdiendo la memoria y a su padre buscando libros raros venezolanos. Cuando Ena descubre una misteriosa postal dentro de un libro, se embarca en una búsqueda por Caracas para descubrir a un escritor olvidado. Su búsqueda se entrelaza gradualmente con la pérdida de memoria de su abuela y los sueños quijotescos de su padre.
Best Latin American Feature, Monterrey International Film Festival, 2024.
Characters and auteur alike are in the process of a kind of spiritual attempt at reclamation, the confrontation of a distance they seek to close through retrospection and excavation. It is a foregone time and space they yearn to inhabit, immemorial and suffused with personal and national meaning alike -Robert Wickers, The Knockturnal.
A master class in composition and sound design that leaves no detail to chance, Lorena Alvarado’s feature debut recalls the intellectual obsessiveness of Roberto Bolaño while achieving a remarkable sense of equanimity and emotional warmth from her real-life sister, father, and grandmother, whose on-screen naturalism never once lapses into mannerism -MoMA.
Preceded by Fiat Lux 5000 (dir. Daniel Eduvijes Carrera, 13 min)
