Director: Lorena Alvarado
\nVenezuela | 2024 | Spanish with English subtitles | 67 min | Docu-fiction<\/p>\n
Tras pasar a\u00f1os 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 b\u00fasqueda por Caracas para descubrir a un escritor olvidado. Su b\u00fasqueda se entrelaza gradualmente con la p\u00e9rdida de memoria de su abuela y los sue\u00f1os quijotescos de su padre.<\/p>\n
Best Latin American Feature, Monterrey International Film Festival, 2024.<\/p>\n
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<\/i> -Robert Wickers, The Knockturnal.<\/p>\n
A master class in composition and sound design that leaves no detail to chance, Lorena Alvarado\u2019s feature debut recalls the intellectual obsessiveness of Roberto Bola\u00f1o 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 <\/i>-MoMA.<\/p>\n