Azucena begins to connect with the teenagers at a group home, drawn especially to Julio. Still haunted by a traumatic event that marked her adolescence and left her suspended in time, she sees in Julio fragments of a past she longs to recover. Marked by absence, they forge a strange and uneasy bond that irremediably changes the nature of their shared emptiness.
Ana Cristina Barragán (Quito, 1987) is a screenwriter and film director. Her debut feature, Alba (2016), premiered at the Rotterdam Iff, where it received an award, and earned an Honorable Mention at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Alba went on to win over 35 international awards, was Ecuadors official submission to the Academy Awards, and was featured in the Latin American cinema showcase at MoMA in New York. Her second feature, The Octopus Skin (2022), premiered at San Sebastián and was selected for festivals including Thessaloniki, Guadalajara, and Munich. It received six Colibrí Awards from the Ecuadorian Film Academy and was part of the 2024 Platino Awards. Ana has directed several short films, including Ave (TIFF 2023) and Domingo Violeta (Locarno, 2010). In 2025, she premieres her third feature, The Ivy, in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Biennale. She is currently developing her fourth feature, Amapola, a series titled La Costra y la Miel, her first documentary, and various projects involving analog photography and writing.
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