After almost twenty years of living in Spain, the director decides to embark on a personal quest: to find women who, like her, were born and lived their early years under the Chilean civic-military dictatorship.
Andrea, Claudia, Alejandra, Daniela, Victoria, and Sol meet in a house to share common experiences and explore how that early experience—often fragmented or without conscious memories—has left marks that are still present in their lives today.
The role that family history plays in shaping our identity is absolutely crucial, as is the context in which we grow up. This construction of identity and the connection to memory is something Carolina has explored previously in her films, but now it unfolds in a bittersweet way, reflecting on how she grew up under the dictatorial regime in Chile. The film is a gathering with friends, a conversation under the sun that has a touch of sweetness and affection, but it is also a recollection of a dark past, the details of what was experienced in each house as the girls grew up, as they discovered themselves, even as the country descended into horror. The embrace of friendship is palpable, but the scars of the dictatorship remain, ever-present.
Javiera Leal, FIDOCS programmer 30
Carolina Astudillo Muñoz (Santiago, Chile) is a producer, director, journalist, researcher, and teacher. She holds a diploma in Film Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and a master's degree in Creative Documentary from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her work focuses on women and historical memory, and moves between experimental and documentary filmmaking. For her first feature film, 'El gran vuelo' (2014), she received the Best Director award from the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (CIMA).