This Is Not My Kingdom

After his mother falls ill, filmmaker Humberto González Bustillo flies back home to be by her side. Before his return, he remembers his childhood, and in turn recounts the colonial interests in Venezuelan lands, together with the continuous oil crisis.

Hera; a teenage girl blinded by rage, manages to convince her best friend; Clara, of smashing the windshield of a brand new SUV belonging to Emiliano, a corrupt military who lives in the same building as them, as a way of retaliation after watching a video online that shows him torturing young protesters.

In the midst of winter, a Venezuelan woman exiled in Brooklyn deals with daily work, a recurring appearance and unsettling messages from back home.

The deceased Venezuelan awaits, uncertain of what comes next. According to the machines, the voyage to paradise starts soon. But in digital purgatory, bureaucracy and control continue.

A machine-voice makes a "sad film of his homeland" for a dying patient to ease its passing: footage from Kennedy's visit to Venezuela in 61' creeps through montage errors, and a seemingly endless poem comes alive one last time.

A Venezuelan government official is sent to Switzerland to work on a project, strangely descending into sickness as unsettling events unfold back home.

A family painting triggers in the "The Young man" memories of his mother, the countryside, and his last lover, while doubt brings him closer to violence.

A Venezuelan city is emptying. A labor less priest struggles with a sonic sleep disorder while trying to safe-keep his meek buffalo from being taken. As the intentions of the remaining ones become more desperate, the priest’s malaise becomes more alive.

A long-lasting lockdown. The last days of a grandmother. In between, a speculative film diary: a distant homeland, a grieving state possessed by light.