David Varela

A rainy afternoon turns into an emotional hurricane when a stranger enters Paco's apartment.

A memory exercise, a crystalized moment in time that captures poetic and existential quotidian gestures. A journey into a world of estrangement in which nothing is what it seems, yet it gives way to the vision of a better future after the storm. A work that begins with a sequence of correspondences in the distance to gradually become an essay that reflects on the perception of time, confinement, the impact of man on nature and the very act of filmmaking.

Part of the historical revision of the battle of Brunete, part of the chronicle of the fieldwork carried out by a group of students next to the director, David Varela! signs a polyhedral portrait composed from different sources (current testimonies, written memoirs of the combatants, photos, maps, comments by scholars) that overlap the contemporary landscape of forests, groves, crops, bunkers and ruined buildings. Remains of shipwrecks that link a journey of more than 80 years through which, through the experience of young people, they become aware of the gap opened in our historical memory. FICX 2021