From Barcelona to Quito, 2002-2025
Directed by Luz Maria Llano Toapanta, Joffre Mejía
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Overview
One-minute short film that delves into the author’s personal family archive. Through the simple gesture of revealing the handwritten notes and letters on the back of photographs, more than two decades of memories and emotions unfold in sixty seconds. Many families who emigrated from South America to Spain in the early 2000s remained deeply connected to the relatives who chose not to leave their homeland. Their bonds survived through image-fragments: brief scenes of everyday life accompanied by hastily written words on the back of each photo. These messages speak of new cities and adopted traditions, but also of uncertainty, longing, and the quiet resilience that accompany the act of leaving everything behind to start anew.
