Beatriz Seigner : 2018
Twelve-year-old Nuria, nine-year-old Fabio and their mother Amparo arrive at a small island in the middle of Amazonia, at the border of Brazil, Colombia and Peru. Their boat is travelling across the water, and the few things we can see in the dark mass in front of it are lit by the lamp that is being used to guide the vessel. We can just make out tiny spots of marshland and lights in the distance. When they arrive, a figure in the dark greets them by saying, "I didn't think you were alive." It's a place of limbo with none of the three bordering countries having sovereignty over it. The refugees are also just in between places. Amparo is waiting to hear about reparations she is due to receive from the oil company where her husband used to work, and their refugee status places them in a bureaucratic hell. They ran away from the Colombian armed conflict in which the father disappeared. One day, he reappears in their new house. The family is haunted by this strange secret and discovers the island is peopled with ghosts. Beatriz Seigner's second feature premiered at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Festival de Cannes 2018.
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