Marisol Cao Milán

An intimate portrait of the lives of Delvys and Carlos, siblings who live alone with their elderly mother in a rural part of a small Cuban town. The film portrays a family engulfed in their inner worlds. Between the sacrifices they make out of love for those who are present, and their longing for things that are absent, they struggle to find meaning as they reflect, contemplate, and carry the weight of existence, trying together, to move forward.

After 91 years of operation, a camera portrays the last image of the "Nakagawa" photographic studio. Its workers reveal the memory of its founder Masao Nakagawa, a Japanese immigrant, founder of the first photographic studio in northern Peru. This is the portrait of time and the memory of a place condemned to be erased by modernity.

GABRIEL (50) has terminal cancer and has six months to live. He decides to travel to his grandparents’ town to wait for death and here he meets GLADYS (17), whom the town believes to be miraculous. Between them begin a relationship determined by desire and disease.

Vismán and Alejandro live alone with their father, a veteran of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. In the intimacy of their house and their day-to-day life, the two brothers participate in filming their portrait by imagining staged scenes that reveal the violence inherited from their national and family history. – Camille Kaiser

Изгой совершает путешествие через плотину в Сьерра-Маэстре, где зародилась Кубинская революция. Вместе с ним мы движемся по этому затухающему ландшафту, постепенно пересекая очерченную картографию тела, которое с каждым движением растворяется, становясь, наконец, единым с этим местом.