Documentary
This is a film made in Toronto, in memoriam, so to speak - a memory piece, a "piecing-together" of the experience of living there. The consciousness of the maker comes to sharply focused visual music - not to arrive at snapshots, as such, but rather to "sing" the city as…

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The television images of the collapse of the World Trade Center were preceded by manifold stagings of the building, either as a highly symbolic icon, a speculative destruction fantasy or merely as a spectacular backdrop. In Misty Picture, city symphony, disaster movie and media trauma therapy become one.

At only 19 years old, an Argentinian filmmaker emigrates to Miami looking for better opportunities. She soon finds herself falling for her very first boyfriend, someone she thought was good for her. That would quickly change, making her feel trapped in an abusive relationship that she would hide from everyone around her for years. In a detailed search for healing, she explores the events that led to the morning when he sexually assaulted her to understand that she is not to blame.

Encouraged by the polychrome onirism of the Ñuine land, Desiderio (58), a farmer from the south of Mexico, offers an offering to the Tupa, the ancient spirit of the hills to whom his grandparents went to to ask for rain and harvest. At nightfall, as he rests at the foot of a campfire, that mysterious being guides him to the core of an ancestral memory.