Shown: March 23, 2025 at 6pm
Director : Victor Erice
Country : Spain
Release Date : 1983
Duration : 94 mins
Language : Spanish
Subtitles : Yes
WINNER : GOLD MEDAL AT 1983 CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Estrella Arenas (Icíar Bollaín), a rural Spanish teenager with a rich imagination, dreams of her mysterious father Agustín (Omero Antonutti), a man who in recent years has drifted away from her and her mother. Estrella struggles to piece together Agustín’s secret history and recalls her family’s sudden unexplained move from Seville in Spain, to the northern countryside when she was young. Estrella decides to return alone to the South, a place warped by years of her father’s hazy and nostalgic recollections.
“A haunting, delicate portrait of childhood, with a father who oozes mystery.” (Kate Muir – The Times)