Filmmaking as process is at the heart of these five films, memorably imaginative attempts at working through a variety of themes, and towards new ways of understanding.A Q&A with filmmakers whose work appears in this program will follow the screening.
A Q&A with filmmakers whose work appears in this program will follow the screening.
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By camara taylor | 13 mins | 2025 | Barbados, Jamaica, UK
A family convenes exactly 500 years after Charles V grants permission to Lorenzo de Gorrevod “to import 4000 Africans into New Spain.” The King’s act marks the escalation of a rupture, with its origins in 1492, that remakes the world and reverberates into the present. This apparent “start of slavery” becomes an occasion to tell the story of one family’s implication across time and space. In nobody’s word, the family archive is digitised and disintegrated in order to reframe accounts, destabilise claims, and inhabit spaces between fact and fiction, questioning the narrative impulses that inform the stories we tell.
By Humberto Gonzalez Bustillo | 9 mins | 2025 | Venezuela
A lone cyberflâneur stumbles upon a hidden corner of Google Maps, a forgotten place unfolding in the static. Shadows pace aimlessly, paths dissolve into nowhere, and figures flicker in and out of existence—fragments of untold stories. A shattered, distorted voice lingers, unrelenting, signaling borders and exile, both imagined and imposed. Still, the search goes on, endless.
By Lucía Malandro and Daniel Saucedo | 15 mins | 2024 | Cuba, Spain
La selva oscura is a record of a long journey connecting two funeral rituals in Cuba: the state burial honoring those who fell in the Angola war and a spiritist ceremony welcoming spirits of the past back into the world of the living. These events, captured by Cuban amateur documentaries filmed in 1987, intertwine to form the core of this film, whose central reflections revolve around loss and oblivion.
NADA FUERA DE LA ISLA: PUENTES (NOTHING OUT OF THE ISLAND: BRIDGES)
By Dalissa Montes de Oca | 16 mins | 2024 | Dominican Republic
Fragmented memories and visions find a home in light and shadows, bridging the gap between the past, the present, and the loss of a mother.
By Luciana Decker Orozco | 13 mins | 2025 | Bolivia
A journey to the underworld begins within our own entrails, shaped by the flesh we consume and the softened crumbs moistened by the saliva of mothers. This film explores the becoming of different times, from the intimate rhythm of digestion to the vast expanse of geological eras: stalagmites formed over millennia, fossilized dinosaur tracks, and the echoes of primordial movements, akin to growling. The film is inspired by the chapter “Puro Andar” from El Pez de Oro by Gamaliel Churata, which states that “we all carry the dead alive; that the dead live.”
