El Padre Bueno

El Padre Bueno

2023 · 15 min · ★ 4.0 · Drama, Fantasy

Damián, a dowser and family man suffocated by debt, receives an assignment to find water that becomes his last chance to keep his family afloat. On this trip, his six-year-old son Sergio accompanies him by surprise, who challenges him, assuring that he knows where the water is. This search for the occult, almost magical, becomes the fight between the two that finally reveals the death of their daughter. When the water gushes out from the subsoil, flooding everything, father and daughter reunite.

Directed by Jorge Cañada Escorihuela · Written by Jorge Cañada Escorihuela

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